TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 160, 10 July 1933, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wellington races to-morrow. Death, of noted English novelist. Marama due from Sydney to-morrow. Sitting to-day of Transport Appeal Board. Large attendances at Winter Exhibition. Statue unveiled in Ulster to Lord Carson. Fruit cargo by ATaihemo from Cook Islands. Honowai arrived from Vancouver this morning. Number °f burglaries from houses in Graf ton district. Twenty deaths in cloudburst floods in Colorado canyon. Exciting finishes in the King's Cup air race in Britain. Plague of grasshoppers causes alarm in South Saskatchewan. British Imperial Airways 'plane starts I return journey to England. ! Fire losses in New Zealand last year ' were lowest for ten years. Party of wonien school teachers arrived to-day from Honolulu. Grant of £500 for three years made to Cancer Campaign Committee. Death sentence passed on Italian for shocking murders of three women. Prospector burned to death in hc.t?l fire at Tapu, and mate severely injured. New Zealand sheepownei'S advocate successive tariff reductions on British goods. Ballots on question of striking taken on number of Auckland relief jobs to-day. French Deputies pass bill increasing tariffs 30 to 1-50 per cent on (54 commodities. Complete agreement between gold standard countries for maintenance of that standard. Manchukuo stated to be prepared to take Chinese Eastern Railway from Russians by force. Accountant in city firm who admitted stealing £353, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. New headquarters of Auckland equadron of Legion of Frontiersmen openeclby Mayor of Auckland on Saturday evening. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Commercial Bank (2), 16/4; National Bank of NewZealand. £4; Bank of New Zealand. £2 8/, £2 8/3; Auckland Gas, £1 3/4; Staples Brewery, £1 (1/9; Electro Zinc. £1 1/; Kompthorne, Prosser, £3 ,4/0; New Zealand Paper Mills, £1 6/6; New Zealand Insurance, £2 10/; Wilsons Cement (2), £1 13/;?, £1 13/3; Bell Kilgour, 'l/i r/Oi; Golconda, 1/3. a/2: Kauri Timber, 13/;' Colonial Sugar, £57 10/. .: Fish sales daily—-fresh and smoked. Country visitors pay us a visit. Cheapest iish in town at Auckland Fisheries, near Tepid Baths.—(Ad.)