TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Matamata races to-day Next Royal Show to be held at Napier. No further news of Wilkins expediBig shipment of Australian gold to London. , , ... Warkworth and Clevedon shows held to-day. , , Labour retained seat at British byelection. „ , , Higher prices at South Canterbury wool sale. • Attack on President caused bitter feeling in Mexico. Governor-General sails from New Zealand to-day. Debate in House of Commons on hours of coal miners. Public service classification list to be issued next week. * Negotiations for treaty between Britain and Egypt. Maori killed in motor-car capsize near Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. Sitting of Arbitration Court to open at Auckland on Tuesday next. Niagara due from Sydney on Monday morning, and Marama on Tuesday. British West Indies sugar industry • adversely affected by over production. Possibility of New Zealand being represented at Emipre Games in Canada. Commencement this morning of cricket match between Auckland and English teams. Common colds and influnza cost British industry 7,000,000 working days each year. Canadian bowlers at Timaru commented upon keenness of New Zealand teams to win. > Hungarian woman on trial for poisoning her war-blinded soldier husband and a subsequent lover. Granite obelisk of late Andrew Fisher unveiled by Ramsay Mac Donald in Hempstead cemetery. Launch Maroro, which disappeared from Aucklarid some time ago, reported wrecked in Samoan group. General amnesty in Spain on anniversary of Queen Mother's death, exiles return home, and victims of- rebellions" reinstated. Sales at the Stock Exchange this morning were: South British Insurance, £3; British Tobacco, £2 3/; Bank of New [Zealand (reported), £2 17/.