TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 212, 8 September 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Queensland v. Auckland at CarlaM! Park to-morrow. Auckland spring flower show at St, Andrew's Hall on Thursday and Friday, The Sussex radios that she will at 10 p.m. on Thursday from Calcutta. The Wairuna is expected to arrive ill tow of the Waihcuio at daybrealf, to-morrow. Lecture on the incidence of goitre io New Zealand by Mr. t arrick Robertson at the Leys Institute to-night. William John Sinclair was fined £.5 tA the Police Court this morning for assaulting another man in a Newton billiard ~aloon some days ago. A two-year-old boy was killed afc Mount Eden last evening by being run over by his father's lorry, which was being backed out of a shed. The inner city area of the electrical system was in 'total darkness for nearly, half an hour last night, owing to troubla with a fault}* section of cable. Minister of Education states that tM present session of Parliament will close within four weeks, and the general elections will take place in November. The Tramways Union has agreed ta the proposals of the City Tramways Committee respecting the recording on time clocks. The men will not be required to register until the clocks are placed on the centre poles. The clever Moorish general Abd-el» Krim is frustrating the heavy attacks of the French and Spanish forces by ruthless, sudden, and simultaneous sur< prise attacks on both fronts. An enor« mous allied army is engaged. The first Army manoeuvres since the Great War will be held on Salisbury, Plain on September 19, the Air Force coordinating under active service condi* tions (barring bombs). General Sir Alexander Godley will command pna .army. Mr. T. Ronayne, late general manage? of the New Zealand railways, was accidentally killed at Seddonville yester« day by inadvertently releasing an aerial bucket in which he was travelling. The bucket tipped and 6hofc him out, ihia skull being fractured in the fall. A German journalist returned from Doom says the ex-Kaiser is considered mad. He changes his uniform indoors many times a day, and only wears civilian attire for outside. He does not receive communications unless they are addressed "Your Majesty.'"' Great attraction for Wednesday shoppers; five real fur coats, originally 20 guineas, clearing at £S. Beautiful fur chokers worth 9 guineas, clearing from .50/. Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall. (Ad.) Chic model frocks for spring wear. Huge range of 'beautiful designs. MelKa Fur Co.. opp. Smith and Caughoy. —Ad.