TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 234, 3 October 1931, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Ellerslie races to-day. Napier Park races to-day. Stolen safe recovered at Raglan. Ivingsford Smith reaches Athene. Flood waters enter houses at Porirua. Anglican Synod to open on October 14. Niagara due from Vancouver on Monday. Motor ship Potter arrived from New York:. France announces new record for gold holdings. Annual Animal Welfare Week to start to-morrow. New British bill to check profiteering on foodstuffs. Huge new bank merger announced from New York. Man collapsed in city street lafit evening and died. Mysterious distress signal reported off Victorian coast. Scheme proposed to provide work for unemployed nurses. Britain now possesses all speed records for land, sea, and air. Acts of murderous revenge in Baltic Sea bootleggers' war. Smaller response yesterday to St. John Ambulance appeal. _ „ Search to be made in Australia for heir to Wendel millions. Militant tactics by teachers condemned by Waitaki High School rector. Unemployed numbering 50,000 in riotous demonstration in Glasgow. German workers seething with discontent through excessive wage cuts. Bill to ensure fair wages in British mail contracts introduced into House of Commons. - • Premier Lang's attempt to legalise betting on tin hare racing lost in Upper House. Federal Minister expelled from New South Wales branch of Australian Labour party. ' The 88th anniversary" of opening of first Methodist Church in Auckland to be celebrated to-morrow.

Sales on 'Chang© to-day were:— National Bank of New Zealand, £3 12/6; King Solomon, 2/1; Waihi, 16/3; Government Loan, 5% per cent (1937), £94 17/6; Government loan, 5§ per cent (insc.), £94 7/6; Government loan, 4§ per cent (1938), £93 5/; Government loan, 5 1-8 per cent (1937), £92; Commercial Bank of Australia, 13/. Everything favours the buyer _ at Empire Furriers' rock-bottom fur prices. Opp. Town Hall clock. —(Ad.) Empire Furriers are noted for quality furs at keenest prices.—Address: Opp. Town Hall clock.—(Ad.) Kelleway's Bargain Monday.—9ft by 7ft 6in linotex squares 21/, 27in congoleum runner 1/11 yd, kapok pillows 1/8. Monday only. —Newmarket.—(Ad.) Kelleway's Bargain Monday.—7ft by 4ft seagrass squares 5/11, 46in by 23in Axminster pile rug's 9/11, 23in tapestry liall runner 2/11 yd.—Monday only.— I Newmarket. —(Ad.) True economy! Have your old fur or fur coat made like new by "Empire" experts.—Opp. Town Hall clock. —(Ad.)