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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 297, 15 December 1934, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Yacht races this afternoon. Heavy stock losses in North. Racing at Te Awamutu to-day. Fire engine capsized at Hastings. Town v. Country cricket continued. Kippax a century in Sheffield Shield. Ponsonby harbour swim this afternoon. McGrath beats Brugnon in Queensland. British golf team played in Auckland to-da j'. Royal welcome race meeting at Trentham. Busy week in prospect for Christmas shopping. Wellington scheme for loan of £GO,OOO for library. More secondary school prizegiving ceremonies. Floods caused much damage in Hokianga district. Great success of London traffic control system. Hamilton batsman scored 94 not out against Town. Sensational finish to Brighton trunk murder trial. Twelve lives reported lost in raging Atlantic storm. Nearly £4000 in bequests left by Christchurch resident. Death of captured missionary and wife and child in China. Action against sale of liquor in House of Commons fails. Steamer Canadian Highlander due from Canada to-morrow. Official opening for West End Bowing Club this afternoon. New Zealand Ministers leaving Sydney for the Dominion to-day. Praise for high standard of teaching at Otago Medical School. Six-year-old kidnap-murder crime tracked down in America. New Zealander cured of blindness in England meets tragic death. Duke of Gloucester to lay foundation stone of Duncdin Post Office. Fabulous profits revealed of U.S. munitions firms during the war. Heavy enrolments for Christmas Bible class camps to be held at Hastings. New South Wales makes good start against English women cricketers. Duke say? King relies on New Zealand for its part in preserving world peace. Two men slightly injured in mishapat Hobson Street electricity sub-station. Headmaster, appeals for facilities for more Maoris to have secondary education. Picturesque spectacle when five warships arrived in Port Nicholson this morning. Over 15,000 applications received for 200 jobs as car driver examiners in England. Quist defeated Perry in straight sets, Wimbledon champion scoring only two games. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church congregation sent call to Tirnaru minister. Thirteen killed when motor bus dashed into Hitler's special train at level crossing. Two Belgian sailors lost in midAtlantic storm in rescuing foundered British crew. Gloucester welcomed enthusiastically in Wellington this morning; in line weather. Drury to Bombay section of Great South Road to be temporarily reopened next week from Saturday next. Sales on 'Change to-day were: King Solomon, 3/8; Mataki, 2/; Skippers, 7M; Mount Roskill, l/o/GO, of per cent, fir - ; Silknit, £1 19/. Kelleway's Xmas Bargains.—2(l x ~>2 English Axminster floor rugs, 0/11; On wide Congoleum, 3/0; moquette velvet squab, 19/11; English lino., Oft wide, 4/11.—Newmarket.—(Ad.) Your fur renovations cost you less if entrusted to X.Z.'s expert furriers, The Model Furriers, 99, KaraSgahape Road. All work guaranteed. — (Ad.) Kelleway's Camping Bargains.—Folding camp stretchers. 10/11; cretonne mattress for same, 8/6; 72in heavy tent duck, 2/11 yd; kapok pillows, 1/S.— Newmarket. — (Ad.) Make her Christmas truly happy with a beautiful real skunk necklet from Empire Furriers. Priced from 30/0. —Ad. Kelleway's Drapery Bargains. —Boy*' fuji silk shirts, 2/11; men's ditto, 4/11; men's Luvisca shirts, 2 collars, 10/9; 29in bemberg silk, lHd yd.— Newmarket.—(Ad.) Kelleway's Furnishing Bargains.—23m tapestry hall runner, 3/11; 7ft Oiu x 9ft Congoleum squares, 23/0; 70 x 90 cmb. art. silk bedspreads, 0/11.—Newmarket. (Ad.)