TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 5, 6 January 1934, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

I Reef ton races to-day. Belgian political crisis averted. Heavy railway traffic continues. Akarana Yacht Club races to-day. Blizzard causes deaths in Japan. English mail via South this morning. Aorangi due from Sydney on Monday. Higher liquor tax adopted in America. Prices firm at second Napier wool sale. | Anglo-Soviet trade negotiati-*** pro ceeding. Wanganella arrived this morning - <rom Sydney. Youth drowned near Patuniahoe yesterday. Railway revenue figures show improvement. Steamer Esperance Bay aground in Suez Canal. Sir John Simon satisfied with Rome conversations. Viscount Allenby at Singapore' on "lazy holiday." Unequalled display seen in British art exhibition. Irish Free State farmers concerned over British quota. England started well in second cricket Test against India. Fast new liner being built for Bombay passenger service. Kingsford Smith expected to fly Tasman next Thursday. Heavy hail and thunder storm caused damage in Canterbury. Young Czecho-Slovakian won international chess tournament. Aerial tour of province completed by four Auckland machines. Motor camp to be established at Waitangi National Reserve. Orange River flood causes great damage in South-west Africa. South African politician murdered by fellow passenger in motor car. London newspapers express surprise at extent of U.S. loan proposal. Dramatic exploration flight by Admiral Byrd and party in Antarctic. Modification of Australian -embargo 011 New Zealand fruit imports expected. Plunket Shield cricket match between Auckland and Canterbury at Eden Park. French Government taking active measures to apprehend absconding Russian financier. Calcutta hostile to Indo-Japanese cotton agreement, but Japanese and British opinion favourable. At inquest concerning death of young woman who died in a Pukekolie surgery, coroner expressed view that no blame was attachable to anyone. It will pay you to have your old fur or fur coat remodelled at Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.) Kelleway's Sale of Furnishings.—4 Bin slub repps, 3/6, now 2/10; 300 yards jute carpet runner, 2/11, now ' 1/10 yard.—Newmarket.—(Ad.) Kelleway's Furnishing Bargains.—36in paper blinds, lace insertion and frill, 2/G each; 3ft x 7ft tapestry floor rug, 16/11. Newmarket.—(Ad.) Kelleway's Drapery Bargains.—Single twill sheeting, 1/; p. cases, CJd; 36in fast casement, all colours, Bid; all silk fuji, 10|d. —Newmarket.—(Ad.) The " Empire " fur stocks were never better; prices were never lower.—Onlv address: Opp. Town Hall—(Ad.)