TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 238, 7 October 1932, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Otaki races to-day. Dunedin races to-morrow. St. John Ambulance appeal to-day. Morinda arrived to-day from Islands. Earl of Inchcape left over £'2,000,000. Recurrence of earth tremors lu Greece. Daylight saving to operate from next Sunday. Boy caught in milking machine near Taupiri. Waikato and New Brighton trots tomorrow. Further gift of £32,000 to London Hospital. Boy golf champion reaches Victorian open final. Fire destroys portion of Canterbury relief camp. Poverty Bay settlers isolated by earthquake damage. Rumour of establishment of Pacific Fleet by Britain. Bombay business men lift boycott ban on British cotton. Equal taxation for power boards und gas companies urged. Unexpected reaction to Hoover policy speech on Wall Street. Sydney thieves have debauch at robbery of bonded stores. Workers in engineering trade in Wellington decide to strikeSerious turn sensed in gambling at Home through tote clubs. Iraq further complimented on admisIs.ion to League of Nations. Scotland Yard inquiries show recent riots ordered from Moscow. Mr. Downie Stewart and Mr. Park have audience with the King. Rugby club final to-morrow between Grammar and Ponsonby teams. Government urged to act in regard to tra'de treaty with Australia. Australia to discuss • question of defence with British Admiralty. South Australian Labour Government defeated in Legislative Assembly. Magistrate declines to make order on judgment summons, against wrestler. Elaborate scheme outlined to relieve London traffic by underground "tubes." German - Chancellor stated, to be planning important reform of Constitution. Minister declines request for new earthquake-proof clock tower at Gisborne. Little hope held out for Four-Power Disarmament Conference being held in London. Satisfaction aroused at reopening of negotiations between Ireland and Britain. British shipping interests concerned at results of subsidised foreign competition. Kingsford Smith planning further attempts on records, also flight to New Zealand. Defalcations in New Zealand Office in London £2500; plan to reconstruct staffing. Asparagus was plentiful at the auctions to-day and sold lower than for many years. . , . ■ i Government unlikely to adopt Expenditure Commission's proposals regarding Plunket Society. Conditional agreement by British Hospitals' Association to participate in Continental lottery. Discussion at meeting of Otahuhu Borough Council on extra payment of men engaged on drainage work. Dome Valley route between Auckland and Whangarei expected to be open for traffic -within the next ten days. Sales on 'Change to-day were:—Bank of New Zealand, - £2 6/; South British, £2 16/;' Taupiri' Coal,-13/6; Central P.B.,.sJ t per cent (1957), £95; Devonport 8.C., 4£ per cent (1937), £91; Waihi, 17/3; Colonial Sugar, £45 5/; New Zealand Government Bonds (1938), 44 per cent, £95 5/. ' Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2; 10/.—Dentist Da vies, opp. Woolworth's.— (Ad.)