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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 239, 9 October 1935, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Geyser activity at Rotorua. Wangaiiella from Sydney to-dav. High water at Auckland 4.17 p.m. Further conference over Wailii strike. Sunset 13.31; sunrise to-morrow 5.45. New Zealand butter market still high. Search near Wellington for missing launch. Discussion in Parliament on burnt-out soldiers. Sharp rises in metals on London market. Boarding house at Surfdale destroyed by fire. Five Democrat party candidates announced. Meeting of Auckland Presbytery held last evening. Port Chalmers due from London at late hour to-night. Trouble at Wailii Hospital further discussed by board. Critical comment on first All Black match received by air mail. Wairnna sailed from Vancouver for 'Frisco after strike 3iold-up. Book-plate loan exhibition to be opened at Art Gallery to-morrow. Italians reported to have blanketed large section of Ethiopia in gas. Status of town clerk further discusscd by Mount Eden Borough Council. Archbishop of Canterbury deplores Italy's "sickening aggression." Old family tradition to be observed in Duke of Gloucester wedding. Abyssinian legation in London refuses hundreds of offers from Britishers to light. The All Black, J. R. Page, has again sprained a leg and is not expected to be available for a further month. A marine alleged to have deserted from H.M.S. Diomede was brought back from Sydney by the Wanganella to-day. Three seafaring men, found in Persian Garden Cafe when it was raided on Sunday morning, before Police Court to-day. The possibility of urgently needed wool shipments being diverted via the Cape is worrying Yorkshire manufacturers. Stated in Court this morning that motorists had been "tagged" as many as six times before being prosecuted for leaving cars unattended. The manager of the All Black*. Air. V. R. Meredith, is not concerned at criticism regarding changes in the team, and is determined to give every man a turn. Golfers assembled at Shirley for N.Z. championships showing good form at practice. A. J. Shaw, the present open and professional champion, is favourite for the open title. Woman divorced by her husband on the grounds of habitual drunkenness brings action against him at Supreme Court to annul agreements by which she allegedly parted with her estate. Fifty applications, mostly from the South, have beeu received for the position of town clerk to the Mount Eden Borough Council. A committee of three has been set up to reduce the number to nine. Sales on the Stock Exchange to-dav were: A.P.4.., £1 0/9; C. L. In'nes, £1; ■Broken Hill Prop., £2 14/; j]3roken Hill (rights), £1; Mount Lyell, 19/9; Bank of New Zealand, £2 10/; Union Bank, £9 1/6; Consolidated Brick (2), 10/3; New Zealand Fanners' Fertiliser (2), 19/6; Mataki Gold, 1/11; City of Auckland, 1944, 4J per cent, £105 10/. Unlisted: Woolworths (Sydney), £5 5/. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Da vies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.