TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 205, 31 August 1933, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Proposal for duty on imported barley. Keen demand for wool at Dunedm Hopes for early peace in Indian frontier strife. _ , Chair of pliilosopliy filled at Otago University. , _ Royal visit to Melbourne centenary still undecided. Public inspection to-day of Japanese training ship. Weird phenomenon of disappearing lake in Ireland. Report on rate collection to Devonport Borough Council. Australian and New Zealand warships arrived this morning. Two more suicides yesterday from Sydney Harbour Bridge. Otago Harbour Board to pay London loan interest in sterling. War Council recommended to co-ordi-nate Australian defences.

Heavy decrease in trade returns in Ireland since economic war. Legislation proposed in connection with"Oakley Creek drainage. City loan proposals approved; only lo per cent of ratepayers voted. Auckland Drainage Board accepted tender for sewage clilorination. Court dismissed claim for recovery of monev in betting transaction. Motorists had. fortunate escape from injury in level crossing smash. Further friction causes resignations of Cuban Supreme Court judges. . Move by Auckland Rugby Union to reduce number of senior teams. < Birkenhead Borough' Council to seek improved vehicular ferry service. Several lives lost in series of aeroplane and train crashes in America. Complaint of public apathy in supporting beach patrol in Christchurch. Decision bv Birkenhead Borough Council to increase town clerk's salary. Reply to .criticism that Australian Navy is "out-of-date" or "miserable." Wool values hardening at Sydney sales, highest point readied yesterday. Report asked for reason of Ford's refusal to sign U.S. automobile industry code. Policy, speech last evening by Mr. M. J. Savage, deputy-leader of Labour party. More plays presented last evening by Auckland area branch of British Drama League. Viceroy of India denies chat air bombing of natives infringes canons of humanity. * Trial of two brothers, German wool industry magnates, for falsification, may last a month. Value of training given girls at Salem House commented upon at annual meeting of Door of Hope Association. ♦New Zealand Shipping Company claims £289 of English silver found 011 the steamer Piako from New Zealand at Melbourne. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Union Bank, £9 5/; Auckland Gas, £1 3/3; Kaiapoi Woollen, 7/10; Wilsons Cement, £1 14/6; Mataki (5), 2/; Grand Junction (4), 4/1; Stock (1949), 4 per cent, £101 2/0; Commercial Bank, 15/11; Kauri Timber, Colonial Sugar, £58; Okarito, I*9; Mount Lyell, £1 1/9; Stock, 1940, 4 per cent, £101. The quality and freshness of our fish are vastly superior to all others. Remember our shops and customers get the pick of the market.—Sanford, Ltd. (Ad.) Dark Canadian (Northern) musquash coats, with our genuine five years' guarantee for wear. From 24gs.—G. Green, 99, Karangahape Road.—-(Ad.) Now is the time for that old fur or coat to be remade as new at small cost by Empire Furriers, 358, Queen St. (Ad.) Give freely to-morrow, Daffodil Day street collection, in aid of Victoria League, Navy League, Society for Protection Women and Children.—(Ad.) Skunk, nigger, sable, stone marten shades, American opossum stoles, 42/6 at the Model Furriers, 99, K'hape Rd'. (Ad.)