TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 259, 1 November 1932, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Melbourne Cup to-day. Sydney Communist imprisoned. Third bomb explosion at Greymouth. Awards made for bravery in Canterbury. Ruby valued at £7000 found in Burma. University examinations commenced to-day. Maunganui arrived this morning from Sydney. Wellington tramways show loss for past year. O'ilalley, Australian boxer, beaten by Frenchman. Many critics of French Disarmament proposals. Cotton spinners' strike in Lancashire spreading. South Australian court official gaoled for larceny. Criminal session continued at Supreme Court to-day. Taupiri farmer gravely injured by drilling machine. Australian banks reduce interest rates on fixed deposits. Hughes defeated Oxley in boxing match at Town Hall. Decrease in Auckland bankruptcies for ten months' period. Swimmer's fearful ordeal with shark near Newcastle, N.S.W. Scathing denunciation of Communism by Scottish K.C. Church. Stop work meetings this morning of seimen and watersMers. Queensland receives heaviest cricket defeat in State's history. Canadian Opposition takes gloomy view of Ottawa agreements. Pataudi not coming to New Zealand after M.C.C. tour of Australia. Important amendments proposed to Lang Government's Moratorium Act. City Council cancelled use of Town Hall for Sunday faith-healing meetings. Break in water main at Onahunga attributed to vibration caused by heavy traffic. Year of progress reported at annual meeting of Auckland Sunday School Union. Defeated member protests that politics have too much pull in University Senate. Auckland Power Board decided to extend electricity supply to Cookie Bay, near Howick. Sales on the Stock Exchange to-day were:—Colonial Sugar, £49; Waihi, ex div., 17/9 (cum), 17/10 (ex); National Bank of Australasia (con.), £5 12/6; Taranaki Oilfields, 2/1; Waihis (3), 18/.

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