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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1935, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Maize prices advance. Hough seas 011 the west coast. . Potatoes are slightly cheaper. High water at Auckland 9.40 p.m. Sunset 0.30; sunrise to-morrow 5.37. New Zealand butter market steady. Tongariro to sail for England to-mor-row. Miners' strike in South Wales spreading. Theft from grocery store at Mount Koskill. Port Chalmers to sail for the South to-night. Onchunga discussion on Sunday play in parks. New Zealan.d butter in London now 125/ to 127/. Steamer City of Tokio due from New York 011 Friday. Cathedral plan adopted at sitting of Anglican Synod. |, Conference continued in connection with Waihi strike. South African Opposition pledged support of sanctions. Efligy of Mussolini burned in coloured parade in Capetown. Andresen defeated Singh in wrestling match at Town Hall. Holland preparing to apply arms embargo against Italy. Waipahi arrived this afternoon with a cargo of fruit from Suva. Meat supplies for unemployed at Manurewa to be investigated. First prize in art union won by Palmerston North ticketliolder. Marist Brothers' jubilee celebrations marked by reunion last evening. Bradford wool market is firm, with some activity in forward business. Italian Legation staff from Addis Ababa reaches French Somaliland. Manurewa Town Board urges that constable be' appointed for district. Motion 011 Italo-Abyssinian dispute ruled out of order at Anglican Synod. Bradford ridicules Italian claim to make wool from by-products of milk. Leakage in water mains to be investigated by New Lynn Borough Council. U.S. Secretary of Treasury cancels passage in the Kex, Italy's giant liner. Armed guards protect British Embassy in Paris in Fascist demonstration. Annual meeting of Auckland Swimming Centre to be held to-morrow evening. Maungakiekie Ladies' Golf Club to play final round of Bledisloe Cup to-mor-row. Mariposa due from Sydney 7 a.m. 011 Saturday. She will sail at 4 p.m. for San Francisco. British overseas trade for September was much the highest for that month in recent years. Injured woman at Panmure crawled painfully for one hour and a half to nearest neighbour. Small outbreak of fire quickly suppressed in ruins of Dixieland cabaret at Point Chevalier. Application for postponement of Mareo trial till February session to be heard on Friday morning. Policeman played 1 hazards in- Auckland gambling den in collecting firsthand evidence for prosecution. Considerable activity in shipping shares 011 London Stock Exchange, following increase in freight rates. Two experts engaged by Metropolitan and Suburban Drainage Board to report on comprehensive Auckland drainage scheme. " Tenders for supply of electric ranges received by Auckland Power Board as the first step in scheme to hire ranges to consumers. Hardening of nietal market, caused Auckland Power. Board to jJurcliase upwards of £0000 worth of transformers and cables. Jurisdiction of Native Land Court 111 oidering railway crossing to be constructed in a certain place questioned at "Supreme Court to-day. Sales completed on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—N.Z. Breweries, £2 11/0; K.D.V. Boxes (con.), 9/9; Morris Hedstrom, £1 3/0; United Provision, 11/8; Stock, 38/52, 3i p.c., £107 7/0; Amalg. Brick (Auck.), £101 10/; Consolidated Brick, 9/10, 9/8 and 9/7; Hill and Plummer, 18/; Waihi Invest., 15/; Bank of N.Z., , £2 10/; Golden Dawn, 2/10; Grand Junction, 3/9; Mt. Lyell, 19/9. Unlisted: Woolworths (Syd.) (2), £5 11/6. Still more drastic reductions at the Melba Fur Co.'s sale of fur coats and furs. Frocks and coats half the usual prices. —288, Queen Street.—(Ad.)