TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 222, 19 September 1930, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Avondale races to-morrow. ! Heavy weather on West Coast. j • Firm prices at Sydney wool sales. j Ulimaroa sailed to-day for Sydney. ] H.M.s. Dunedin visiting Wellington. Attempt to: wreck express train iir India. No change in situation at' Lake Colei ridge. Slips blocked road between' Napier and Wairoa. Two lives lost in'coal mine accident in South Otago. New British flying-boat to carry 40 passengers. Fresh amendment to Canadian tariff proposals in Ottawa. New tariff caused spirited debate in Canadian Parliament. Waikowhai contractor met his creditors this morning. Funds of Auckland. Patriotic Association now below £100,000. All .transport services competing with Sydney trams abolished. Mr. Fox-bes hopeful of mutually satis-factory-arrangement with Canada. Dispute at, Glen Afton Collieries settled." Miners resume next Monday.

Civic welcome and "at home" when Dutch warships come to Auckland. Arrangements made for South African cricket team to -visit Australia. Stated that excavations at famous Hill 60 will not cause desecration. Car damaged' in crash into fence at' Eden Terrace early this morning. Captain Matthews ait Constantinople on third hop from England to Australia. Enterprise .defeated Shamrock in fourth race and-retained Ame-ica Cup. Two trainers brought six racehorses in motor vans from. Napier to Auckland. Reported to City Council that it would cost £860 a year to light waterfront road. Land, adjacent to Lake Waiatarua to be investigated for'municipal golf course. Two English University undergraduates making flight from England to Africa.

' Steamer Kiwitea, which left Auckland on Monday for Westport, returning for repairs. , City Council deferred decision in regard to purchase of. extra reserves at Waitakeres. ' * ' - ; ". . . Prime Minister of, New Zealand protested against Canadian duty on New Zealand butter. New Lynn ratepayers approved loan for loading, but refused to sanction loan for waterworks. ' Conferences on limitation of manufacture ■of opium been arranged by League of Nations. Mystery of human skeleton found in vbush in New South. Wales solved by police and scientists. Dozens of social functions arranged for Dominion, delegates while attending Imperial Conference. ' °

General reduction in cable rates to South Africa, Australia ■ and South America contemplated. . Inquest .at Whangarci on farmer believed to have; -beeii a processor at .University of Singapore. Benefit exhibition of New Zealandgoods for. cinccr campaign to be officially; opened this evening. "'Wilfully caused, but no evidence to show by whom," was verdict returned in respect of; garage fire at Opotiki. New Zealand Rugby League issued statement in regard to suspension of C. Diifty, of the Ellerslie! League Club. . General ■ manager of Auckland Power Board .refutes Southern statements that assistance, was given by Government when Arapuni station closed down, the board having made its own emergency arrangements. Sales on 'Change to-day were: New Zealand Insurance (2), £2 1/; South British, :£2 17/3; Mount Lyell, £1; Commercial Bank of Australia, *17/ ; National Bank of/New Zealand, £5 11/6; Bank of New South Wales, £31 2/6; South British,: £2 17/; Colonial Sugar, £30 12/6. . ; ;

1930 spring suitings just arrived.—P. Groos and Co., Durham Street, Auckland. (Next Stewart Dawson). —(Ad.)