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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 48, 26 February 1935, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sunset to-night at 7.8. Milk Council poll to-day. Races at Opunake to-morrow. New Zealand butter market still quiet. High water at Auckland to-day at 1.20 p.m. Hertford to load at Auckland for Lon. don. Governor-General farewelled at Invercargill. Bitumen cargo due by Antiope from Mexico. Empire air - mail services discussed in Sydney. Octogenarian golfer holes out in one at Sydney. Tourist liner Franconia sailed for south last evening. Presentation of Auckland regatta prizes last evening. Severe electrical storm passed over Auckland last night. French auxiliary yacht Korrigane being prepared for sea. New wool dyeing process discovered by British experiments. Two horses killed by lightning at Mercury Bay last night. Liner Tamaroa due at Auckland on Thursday from London. Prohibited Czech to be allowed to leave Australia this. week. Suggested that Auckland should have a centenary regatta in 1940. Eden and Epsom won second and third grade tennis championships. Organised demonstration by unemployed in House of Commons. N.S.W. discussion "on improvement of League football in New Zealand. Rampling, British runner, • injured at Wellington after winning furlong. Poignant last letters of, American sisters read at air suicide inquest. Seamen refuse to. man. ship at Melbourne for voyage to New Zealand. Hobbs retires from first-class cricket with 71 more centuries than Grace. Government action concerning foreign subsidised shipping believed unlikely.". Zwiek defeated Bishop, Australian lightweight champion boxer, on points. K. C. James, New Zealand wicketkeeper, qualifying for Northamptonshire. Christchurch City. Council urges completion of South Island Main Trunk railway. Gang charged in Paris with theft of a house, three iron sheds and 6ft of fence. Wanganella held up. indefinitely at Sydney owing to dispute with stewards union. Railway crossing danger' at Porta:- 1 ' Road discussed by New Lynn Borough Council.

Expected in Parliament that mortgage legislation will be dealt with before end of week. ' . Police called to maintain '-■•ler amon? crowd which attended Christenureh Cily Council meeting last night. Otago dismissed Canterbury, Phmket Shield winners, for 141, and led by 34* at lunch, with three wickets still in hand. Sales on 'Change to-day were:—Bank of N.Z. (2), £2 9/4; "Reserve Bank (2), £6 10/; Auckland Gas, £1 7/6: Waihi, £2 1/. Now is the time for that fur coat to be remade as new at small cost by Tnipire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.)