TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1934, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Racing at Keefton. Torrential vain at Akuroa. Xaval man lined for epeeding. Disabled yacht Daisy towed into port. Plunket Shield cricket continued to-day. Girl seriously hurt near Maraeta'i Beach. Exceptionally heavy week-end railway traffic. Second Bine Star liner arrived yesterday. New St. John Ambulance divisions approved. French flying boat held up by magneto trouble. Hauraki arrived from Los Angelo* yesterday. Further havoc by violent storm in Australia. Alarming scrub fire at Mairangi Bay yesterday. Canadian Victor due from Montreal this evening. Aorangi arrived from Sydney en route to Vancouver. Six countries show increase in employment totals. Dowager Queen Marie says Rumania, will pull through. Olympic Games representative injured in motor accident. Dominion bowling tourney commenced at Dunedin to-day. Kotoroa Island inmate sent to gaol for insubordination. Large number of yachts capsize in violent Sydney squall. Alpine Sports Club annual camp hampered by bad weather. British steel to be used exclusively for Empire ship building. Mail for Byrd Antarctic expedition closes to-morrow evening. Leader of "gentlemen kidnappers" gang shot by Chicago police. Big increase in, new life insurance business in Britain last year. Doctor dies of poison and nurse is critically ill in Sydney suburb. Sydney Maru sails for Sydney and Narbada for Wellington to-day. General O'Duffy. contemplates action against police for wrongful arrest. Member of French Cabinet asked .to resign because of Bayonne scandal. Tariff commission's report expected to be completed at end of next month. - Evidence relating to Mau disturbances in 1929 given at O. F. Nelson trial. Party of chiefs from Rarotonga to attend Waitangi centenary celebrations. Divorce contemplated by -wife of Lieutenant Massie—echo of Honolulu ease. Prices at Napier wool sale 20 to 2."> per cent in advance of those at December sale. First Auckland shipment chilled beef leaves by Sultan Star for London on Friday. Italy alleges naval armaments race in : Pacific between Japan, U.S.A. and Britain. Inspection made by Mr. Coates of two small farm settlements on coast near Dargaville. The Auckland Stock Exchange opened to-day, the only sal© being National Insurance, 18/6. Improvements likely to be carried out on bad portions Great South Road between Auckland and Hamilton. British Labour Leader says party will have to overcome opposition "from Buckingham Palace/' using the general sense.

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