TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 183, 5 August 1935, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sunset at 5.S p.m High water to-day at 10.5S p.m. Nearly an inch of rain last night. Maori footballers defeated Victoria. Fire at Scout Hall at Palmcrston North. Mariposa due from Los Angeles next Friday. Marama due from Sydney to-morrow morning. French war sloop open to visitors yesterday. Fiona arrives from Suva to-morrow with sugar. Somerville takes lead in hockey championship. Protest against war at public meeting last evening. Marama arrives from Sydney at 7.30 a.m. to-morrow. New Zealand women's hockey team defeated Australia. Palmerston North to make provision for first-class air port. Start of wheelbarrow "derby" from Auckland to Wellington. Prime Minister to arrive in Auckland next week by Wanganella. Driver injured when motor van fell :nto sea near Wellington. Fishing boats caught in at Kaikoura and ran for shelter. Grafton (1934 champions) now lead in senior Rugby competition. Germany building world's largest whaler for London company. Nucula, Admiralty oil tanker, arrived from Bora Bora this morniuar. Clothes worth £130 stolen from Papatoetoe store last night. Mount Albert Grammar Old Boys leading in Soccer championship. Two E.A.F. flyers killed when 'plane crashes on to electric railway. Minister of ■ Education visited all Auckland Grammar Schools to-day. Auckland victorious over Taranaki and South Auckland League teams. South Auckland Cricket Association declined match with M.C.C. team. Missing aeroplane found on Ruahine ranges; but no sign of Mr. Armstrong. Heavy deliveries of New Zealand cheese in Tooley Street, London, last week. Sir Herbert Hart says Samoan natives are "co-operating splendidly" with the Administration. Kaitoke expected to sail on Wednesday for South to complete loading scrap metal for Japan. Half-holiday granted to Grammar School boys in honour of visit of Minister of Education. Gold prospecting in New Guinea to be carried out by Anglo-Dutch company with use of aeroplanes. Believed deliberate attempt to murder family of four revealed in bursting of bomb at Dacevville, New South Wales. . .

Minister of Education, holds conference in Auckland in connection with University School of Engineering and fine arts block. Sales on the Stock Exchange to-day were: —South British. £4 17/; P. and O. (def. stk.), £1 2/9; British Tobacco, £1 19/11; Broken Hill Prop., £3 0/6; G. J. Coles. £3 2/; Wilson's Cement, £1 19; Mahakipawa, sd, 4Jd (2); Union Bank of Australia. £!> 2/6. £9 3/; N.Z. Insurance, £3 7/6; KZ. Guarantee Corporation, 5/10; Colonial Sugar. £45 10/; Maori Gully. 1/4; Auckland Harbour Board, 1939. £102, 1942, £104 10/, 1954, £107. Unlisted.—Woolworths

(Sydney), £5 6/6, £5 5/. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set

of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp Woolworths.—Ad.