TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 209, 3 September 1932, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Britain launches new cruiser. Slaughtermen strike in Sydney. Fewer unemployed at Hamilton. Hope for lower taxes in Australia. ; No agreement in musterers' dispute. Cotton strike in England spreading. Eangitata sailed to-day for London. Players beat Gentlemen by 47 rune. Four naval airmen killed at Panama. Daffodil Day collection amounted to £255. North-west gale causes damage in Canterbury. King'e successful season with yacht Britannia. Further delay in cargo handling in Wellington. •Port'Huon due at noon to-morrow from Liverpool. Reduced charges to local bodies for health inspection. Decision reserved in Wanganui river boat liquor cases. Air rally in Britain; many foreign flyers taking part. Hitler makes fighting speech to thousands of supporters. Hotel licensee convicted for permitting gambling on his premises. Resignation of Mayor of New York following graft revelations. Finals of North and South Auckland golf championships to-day. Racing to-day—Manawatu Hunt Club, New Brighton Trotting Club. Head-on collision last night between tramcar and email motor car. Flood waters in parts of Victoria and New South Wales still rising. United States won Walker Gott Cup for seventh year in succession. Otago and Eastern (Gore) in final N.Z. ladies' hockey championship. Mailey's eleven may play match at Wellington, September 19 and 20. Aetounding success of scientists in Hamilton, Ontario, at solar eclipse. Window-glass section of Australian firm closes, owing to reduced tariff. Death sentence to Nazis for murder of Reds commuted to life imprisonment. Niagara due on Monday from Vancouver, and sails for Sydney on Tuesday. Further criticism of bad state of Great South Road between Papakura and Bombay. Minister of Education recommending to Cabinet new primary school for Parnell. Waipiata's departure delayed last night on account of watersidere refusing work. Strong criticisms of inadequacy and cost of school text books at Auckland conference. important decision made by Arbitration Court regarding compensation for coal miners. Latest cables indicate brighter trade at Smithfield, including New Zealand lamb, which had been depressed for eome time. • London merchants have increased their advances on New Zealand dairy produce from 9d to 10d for butter, and from 4Jd to 5d for cheese. Sales on 'Change to-day were: — Commercial Bank of Australia, 14/7; Bank of New Zealand, £2 7/9; Government Stock, 5 J per cent (1937, September), £98 17/6; Government Stock, 4£ per cent, 1939, £95 7/6; New Zealand Breweries, £1 7/6; Guarantee Corporation, 5/11.

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