TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 208, 3 September 1935, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

All Blacks arrive in London. Onions are scarce in the city. High water at Auckland 10.2,~> p.m. Sunset at 5.31 j csunrisc to-morrow 6.9. Man collapsed at Westfield and died. Aorangi sailed lust evening for Sydney. Heavy snowfall in Poverty Bay district. Abolition of gold export tax urged in Otago. Breach of promise case at Supreme Court. Marama arrived from Sydney this morning. Tasman storm gave Marama heavy buffeting. Pam Barton beaten in Australian golf championship. Liberal candidates to contest three Auckland seats. Liquid disinfectant thrown at governor of Hobart gaol. New Zealand 'Varsity team wins final hockey Test in Fiji. Draw in wrestling match between Singh and Blomfield. Evidence in the Hewer ease being continued this afternoon. Values rise 15 to 20 per cent at opening of Sydney wool sale?. New Zealand badminton championships to begin to-morrow. American dollar recovers in relation to sterling, now 4.93 13-16. Auckland Horticultural Society , .- spring show to open to-morrow. Poverty Bay defeats Auckland in NewZealand women's hockey tourney. Woman Democrat candidate to opposePrime Minister for Hurunui scat. Plumber employed by Harbour Board who stole scrap metal fined £10. New Zealand missionary returned to-day with adopted Chinese child. Leader of Democrat party, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, due in Auckland to-morrow. Bradford topmakers have difficulty in following Sydney's advanced wool prices. Full statement of Italy's case in Abyssinia dispute presented to Australia. Steward who missed Aorangi last evening followed in launch and got aboard. Special meeting of National Political Federation supporters at Parnell expressed confidence in sitting member. Eric Mareo, well-known Auckland musician, charged with having murdered his wife, remanded to-dav till September 11. Widely differing views expressed to-day coneerning advisability of allowing political speeches on the air during General Election campaign. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Bank of New Zealand, £2 10/11; Dominion Investment, 16/6; Sharland, £1 3/9; Stock, 4 per cent, 1943-40 £107, 1940-49 £110, 1952-55 £112 10/; South British Insurance, £4 14/3; Dominion Breweries, 15/6; Consolidated Brick. 11/4; Morris, Hedstrom, £1 4/; New Zealand Farmers' Fertiliser, 18/6; Stock. 1937-40. 4 per cent. £102. Unlisted: British and Dominion Investment, 7/3; Tavua Gold, 14/10 J. Fnr prices slashed .at Empire Furriers' great sale. Amazing reductions on all furs. Opposite Town Hall Clock. (Ad.)