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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Manawatu races to-day. Otahuhu rating poll to-morrow. Political chaos in Australia. Grey Lynn house gutted by fire. Severe gale on Victorian coast. Prince of Wales to visit Brazil. Another railway crash in Fiance. Labour victor at Welsh by-election. New warships to be built in France. Murder of police official in Ireland. British liner ashore on Scottish coa>t. Cambridge won University boat race. Marama due from Sydney to-morrow. Fires under control at Ouiahuta forest. Aorangi arrived yesterday from Vancouver. Sydney "Evening News" ceased publication. Sitting of city assessment court today. Indian hockey team to visit New Zealand. Heavy and beneficial rains in Queensland. Ample reserves of water at Waitakercs for city. Napier had brisk shopping night on Saturday. Motor ship service arranged for Norfolk Island. Estimated that 180 lives were lost in Fiji hurricane. Scotland easily defeated England in Rugby match. Five lives lost when launch sank in Manawatu River. Work resumed on Napier-Wairoa section of railway. Scottish express derailed in Bedfordshire; eleven killed. German diplomatist who signed Versailles Treaty dead. Dairy factory assistant killed in motor accident near Gore. Annual meeting of Auckland Rugby Union this evening. Catalogue of over' 15,000 bales for Auckland wool sale. Review of Scouts by Lord BadenPowell at Sydney. Cyclist struck by motor truck at Masterton. and killed. Man killed in England during experimental aeroplane flight. French airmen made flight from Paris to Tokyo in ten days. Death of Mrs. C. J. Barber, second victim of Kingcdand motor crash. Labour stonewall of Finance Bill expected to start this afternoon. Yacht Oimara sighted 369 miles east ot Sydney; no sign of other yachts. Indian murdered his wife because tribesmen demanded that he divorce her. Special session of Congress urged in United States to deal with unemployment. • r • Miners approve of formation of Workers' Defence Army in Newcastle, JN.a.W. Mrs. Katerina Nehua established worlds record endurance swim of ov-r 72 hours at Sydney. French may retaliate against Australian duty on luxury lines imported into the Commonwealth. Yacht Francis will be at Devonport Wharf with Watermelons this evening.