TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1934, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Change in weather. Tapanui races to-morrow. ' Several holiday accidents. Tennis championship finals. Discovery 11. due this afternoon. Second chilled beef shipment loading. Kobot 'phone operator in British Post Office. Second wool cheque of season paid to-day. General election in Britain not likely till 193(5. Mishap to monoplane Faith in Australia. University National bursary winners announced. Heavy rain reported from country districts. ■

Many distinguished visitors arrived by Wanganella. Auckland rifle championship won by H. Simmonds. Wanganella leaves this evening on northern cruise. Cruisers Dunedin and Diomedo sailed for Hauraki Gulf. Prospectus of Reserve Bank to be issued this week. Further clashes between Blue Shirts and I.R.A. reported. Alarming experiences on C.P.R. liner in tidal waves in Atlantic. Austria's terms for settlement of conflict with Germany disclosed. Archbishop of Sinaii requests return of Codex Bible bought from Russia. Principal obstacles to Anglo-Russian agreement said to have been removed. Monthly service by Blue Star Line expected to develop "Australian chilled beef trade. Death of American Egyptologist who was present at opening of Tutankhamen's tomb. Proposal to change Chinese calendar and adopt other Western ways meeting stiff opposition. Fears for Italian trans-Atlantic flyers allayed; 'plane crashes in Brazil, with slight injuries to occupants. British scientist states that exaggerated statements have been made regarding danger* of gas in next war. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: Bell Kilgour, 9d; Wright, Stephenson Perp. Stock, 5 per cent, £90; Gear Meat. £1 5/3; Stock, 15/1/1940, 4 per cent, £101 5/. Unlisted: Hatter's Flat, Scl.

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