TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 98, 28 April 1933, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Franklin races to-morrow. Wanganui trots to-morrow. Sir Alexander Gray, K.C., dead. Football season to open to-morrow. British Budget discussion commences. Small boy found prospecting for gold in hills. Society of Arts exhibition opened last evening. Coal conference to be continued on Monday. Serious riot by unpaid teachers in Chicago. Salary of hospital superintendent in Wellington reduced. Petrol prices reduced in Australia; lowest since the war. Stormy annual meeting of Returned Soldiers' Association. More addresses last evening by Mayoral candidates. Steamer Waikawa arrived last evening from Los Angeles. Champion of champions play to-day in croq-uet tournament. Gold production for three months shows increase in value. Position of hempland bondholders decided by Sydney Court. Chiropractor before Court at Napier on charge of manslaughter. New, Dominion award made for working conditions in oil stores. Three agreements reached in industrial disputes in Wellington. Signs of conflict between Russia and Japan growing in ManchunJi. Big battle pending in North China; probable ultimate peace terms. Opeit verdict at .inquest into death of victims of British air liner disaster. Ramsay Mac Donald's visit to Washington acclaimed as personal triumph. Two occupants of lorry. jumped clear in level crossing crash near Ashburton. Lively discussion at Auckland University College on question of academic freedom. Canadian Prime Minister said to be seeking direct trade pact with President Roosevelt. Bitter attack on British Government by Lord Beaverbrook over Danish trade agreement. Loss on year's work reported at annual meeting of Northern Boxing Association. Inspection by members of North Shore Water Board of potential water supply near Birkenhead. Both Cabinet leaders, Mr. Forbes and Mr. Coatee, are cxpected to attend the World' Conference in London. Sales'on 'Change to-day were:—E. S. and A. Bank, £4 6/9; Bank of New Zealand, £2 5/3; New Zealand Insurance, £2 9/0; Auckland Gas (4), £1 2/1; Kempthorne, Proeser, £3 3/6; New Zealand Newspapers,. £13/0; Waihi, ?1 2/7£; Wilsons Cement, £1 12/0,. £1 12/1; South British, £3 4/; Wool worths (pref.),' £1 11/9. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. — Dentist Davies, opp. Woolworth's. —(Ad.)