TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

[ Oat malt Stout—ldeal Spring Tonic. (Ad-) Racing to-morrow at Carterton and Kurow. Two Thames hotelkecpcis heavily fined for adding water to liquors. Fifty-mile cycle road race from Auckland to Clevedon and back to-morrow. Sales on 'Change to-dav:—War Loan, 4J per cent, 1939, £99; Waihi, 14/; Harvard's Pictures, £1 0/6. Final of the League Roope Rooster competition between Ponsonby and Marist at Carlaw Park to-morrow. London wool sales have closed, showing an average drop compared with last previous sale of 71 to 15 per cent. Final of the Auckland Soccer championship between Ponsonby and Tramways at Blandford Park to-morrow. The Portuguese Republic is 18 years old to-day, and the national flag is flying from the Auckland and other Portuguese consulates. The A.J.C. meeting concludes to-mor-row at Randwick, the big race of the day being the weight-for-age two-mile Randwick Plate. Teams announced for the Australian cricket trial match. Mailev is not available for Test cricket this year owing to newspaper engagements. Eggs are very plentiful in Auckland just now, and are being quoted at the marts at 1/1 to 1/3 per doz, with ducks as low as 1/1 for full size. New potatoes are coming forward to the auction marts in greatly increased quantities, and may be'expected to check the high prices asked for southern. The A.R.C. spring meeting opens at Ellerslie to-morrow, when the Mitchelson Cup, the Great Northern Guineas, and the Welcome Stakes will be run. The New Zealand ladies' golf championship was won at Middlemore yesterday by Miss D. Chrystall, of Christchurch, the runner-up being Mrs. Guy Williams, of Masterton. A complimentary luncheon on the lonic to-day to Captain Jackson, the veteran skipper, who will retire from the sea at the end of the liner's present round voyage. On the world's money exchange market sterling has fallen in comparison to the dollar to the lowest point -of the present year, and the Bank of England's holding of gold fell £5,000,000 during the week. Several members of the transport delegation returned to Auckland from Wellington this morning all satisfied with the compromise effected, and hopeful that the new bill will be a definite step towards the solution of Auckland's transport problems. Shorter's, Shortland Street, have just purchased a new fleet of cars to rent without drivers.—Phone 44-061.—(Ad.) Guaranteed fur coats, sgns, at the Model Furriers' great sale.—G. Green, 9l>, Karangahape Rd.—(Ad.) Latest model cars rented without drivers at Shorter's, Shortland Street. Phone 44-061.—(Ad.)