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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Spring's Best Tonic —O&tmalt Stout. (Ad.) Roope Rooster final won by Marists. fire at Levin destroyed a business block occupied by tenants. The Rimutaka is due at Auckland from London at noon next Thursday. Sales on 'Change to-day Sanford (ord.), 18/6; War Loan, 41 per cent, 1939, £99, and do, 1938, f99 17/6. Timaru to Christchurch cycle race won by E. W. Arnst, whose father won the race in 1910. U.S.A. retained the international polo cup, beating Argentina in two out of three matches. By defeating Ponsonby on Saturday Tramways won the Auckland' Soccer Club championship. Two Indians who assaulted a bailiff convicted at the Police Court this morning and ordered to pay costs. J. Whitten won the Auckland amateur 30 miles road championship cycle race on Saturday, also doing the fastest time. J. Gregory, the Australian rep. player, made a characteristic big score by hard hitting in Sydney club cricket on Saturday. Members of the Empire Forestry Conference arrive to-day at Wellington from Australia for a tour of New Zealand. The 159 th anniversary of the landing of Captain Cook in New Zealand was celebrated yesterday at Kaiti beach, Gisborne. Auckland members of the All Black team will arrive by the Marama. which is expected to make port early to-mor-row morning. The English cricket team played a match at Colombo on Saturday, the slow bowler, White, outstanding in the visitors' attack. Great gale in North Canterbury on Saturday night blew down trees and power lines, and damaged Ashburton racecourse grandstand. Most of the members of the New Zealand team of bowlers which Tecentlv toured Great Britain returned home to-day by the Niagara. P. C. Minns and E. E. Bailey were selected to-day by the Professorial Board as the Auckland candidates for this year's Rhodes Scholarship. Spray system of painting described bv bankrupt motor car painters as the principal cause of their failure, at a meeting of their creditors this morning. A motor car in trying to pass a motor bus just beyond Papakura on Saturday night, struck the bus and capsized. The people in the car escaped with. slight injuries. The general manager of the New Zealand railways makes his first official tour of the North Auckland railway this week, leaving Auckland on Wednesdav morning. Members of the Australian Scottish delegation which visited the Old Country are returning home by the Niagara, which arrived from Vancouver this ! morning. South Auckland ladies' golf touraa- , ment, in which several New Zealand | championship contestants are taking ■ part, started to-day at St. Andrew's > course, Hamilton. ; Owing to the riot at Ellerslie on : Saturday causing a suspension of the 1 programme after the fifth race till toj day, the concluding day of the meeting ■ will be held to-morrow. ' Frederick William Webster charged in > Whangarei with having failed to account I for £233 belonging to the Whangarei Co- , operative Terminating Building Society. > Suppression of name, granted previouslv | by J.P., refused by magistrate. . - Lord Lovat, chairman of the Over- ■ seas Settlement Committee, was accorded : a civic reception on his arrival at Auckc land this morning and later was the ' guest of honour at an A. and P. Association luncheon. To-morrow he will L be entertained at luncheon by the j Chamber of Commerce. u Not elsewhere in Auckland, not in >. New Zealand, not in Australia, can such - wonderful fur bargains be had as are * now obtainable at the famous Hudson IT Company Furs, Ltd., Regent Theatre - Buildings.—(Ad.) t Record bargain sale of men's and boys' ) wear to-morrow at Caudwell's, 48, | Karangahape Road. Sample suits at halft price to clear.—(Ad.) ? . Second-hand jewellery, bought, sold, t renewed, exchanged or remade at David J Silk, Jeweller, Queen Street.—(Ad.) ~ Hundreds of Auckland ladies'"are taking advantage of the Hudson Co.'s j magnificent offer. This week beautiful |I furs and fur coats at half-price.—Next s Regent Theatre.—(Ad.)