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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Man found shot at Pukekolie,

Championship tennis second dav. Eighth day Bayly murder charges. Gallops at Wairoa, trots at Dunedin. Monowai for Sydney this afternoon. Flooding continues In parts <of Queensland. Fifth race for Cornwall Cup this afternoon. Auckland schoolboy killed at Maitaihi, near Dargaville. Bursting of dam at Walvis Bay turns town into vast lake. Meeting of Dunedin Relief Committee broke np in disorder. No decision made by Takapuna Borough concerning water. Objection to Dairy Board's new regulations voiced in Southland. Notorious Chicago gangster, "Public Enemy No. 1," slain in flat. Chinese Ambassador to Moscow says Russo-Japanese war inevitable. Sydney yesterday received full force of heat wave; temperature 103.4. Newly appointed U.S. judge dies when penning eulogy of dead predecessor. Naval Appropriation Bill of 284,747,000 dollars passed by U.S. Lower House. Mariposa from Los Angeles tomorrow; sails in evening for Sydney. Man, who received bullet wound in heart during Boer War, died at Napier yesterday. Profits from art unions are falling sharply, according to a statement by Mr. Forbes. Suggestion before One Tree Hiil Borough Council to employ labour at standard rates.

Sir Malcolm Campbell and Sir Alan Cobliam planning gold prospecting expedition in desert. Gisborne magistrate took lenient view of charges arising out of Christmas Eve raid/* on hotels.

Lack of opportunity for Xew Zealand boys to adopt seafaring life commented upon at Boys' Employment Committee. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: Blackwater, £1 15/3; Gillespie's Beach (2), 2/2; Mataki, 1/.)J; Crown Mines, 2/; Stock, 4 per cent (15/1/40), £101 5/; Loan and Mercantile, £59 2/6. Auckland Gas (con.), 17/9; Leyland O'Brien. £1 0/6; Farmers' Trading, 3/6; King Solomon, 3/8; Waitahu, 6/2. Unlisted: Investment Executive, B. deb., £102; Woohvor'th's Sydney (ord.), £5 0/6. 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.) You pay half the price you want to pay, or get twice the value for what vo'u pav, at Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.)

Fishworths, Customs Street West, tomorrow, Friday's, special, large quantity fresh snapper. 3d lb; fillets, 8 for 1/; flounder, 5d lb; other varieties bedrock prices. Choice smoked snapper, 5d lb; quality poultry from 2/- each. (Ad.) Have your old fur or fur coat made like new at trifling cost by Empire Furriers, 355, Queen Street. —(Ad.)