TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 252, 25 October 1933, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Big advance in air travel in Britain. Criminal session continued at Supreme Court. Further police search at Ruawaro to-day. Vendor of shares acquitted on frauu charge. Assessment Court sitting at Mount Roskill. Rotorua residents draw horse in Irish sweepstake. Bradford experts consider wool values likely to rise. Shocking French train disaster; foul play suspected. Remarkable anti-British book in circulation in Japan.. James trial on Wellington murder charge postponed. Young man found guilty of assaulting elderly storekeeper. Confectioner fined £100 in Wellington gaming house case. Disarmament Conference expected to adjourn to-morrow. British high-speed 'plane totally wrecked during test. British tenderers for Singapore work undercut by Japanese. Orders placed in Britain for large cotton mills in China. Two men found guilty in Wellington of attempted blackmail. Further results of University terms examinations announced. Funeral cortege of 2000 people follows dead boxer at Greymouth. • About 77,000 tons of British shipping sold to foreigners for scrapping. Northcote Borough Council' in favour of conference to discuss unemployment. Hostile demonstration by New Zealand naval ratings on H.M.S. Diomede. Comment on dangers of spontaneous combustion at meeting of Auckland Fire Board. Supreme Court rules .that rates on native lands- must be paid out of revenues. Derailment of truck at Te Kauwhata caused slight delay to train traffic on Waikato line. Many- firms and public bodies in New South Wales refuse to make further basic wage cut. Australian Government grants £3000 to "Smithy"; unable to find him suitable job iat present. - • Auckland Manufacturers' Association decided to take no action in regard to Waikato River water proposal. Mount Eden Borough Council favour floating tram sections on Mount Albeit, Dominion Road and Mount Eden tram routes. Mr. Coates in House last night explained at length the Reserve Bank Bill, and contended that the bank would save the country substantial sums. ■ Sales on the Auckland. Stock Exchange to-day were:—New Zealand Insurance, £2 14/6; New Zealand Refrigerating (con.), 9/3; Grand Junction, 3/11; Guarantee Corporation, 8/4; Kauri Timber, 15/; New Zealand Breweries, £1 16/; New Zealand Drug, £3 10/; Okarito, 10/7.

Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.—Dentist Davies, opp. Woolworth's.—(Ad.)