TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 306, 27 December 1935, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Surf rescues at Piha. Drowning fatality in Hutt River. High water at Auckland 8.47 p.m. Mariposa arrived from Los Angeles. Sunset 7.42; sunrise to-morrow 5.01. Christmas Day was mild in England. Manawatu races and Westport trots. Auckland Trotting Cup Day at Epsom. Auckland tennis tournament continued to-day. Death-roll in German railway disaster now 3G. Marylebone beat Canterbury by ten wickets. All Blacks beat London Counties by 19 points. Young mountaineer drowned in Rakaia River. Partial resumption of business in city after holidays. Tourist liner Orama to sail to-night for Wellington. Flames 200 feet high in big blaze on Table Mountain. Two youths electrocuted at swimming baths in Queensland. Fatal capsize of motor car near Patumahoe this morning. McMalion beat Pearce in boxing bout at Palmerston North. Nearly £77,000 put through totalisator at Ellerslie yesterday. Draw in wrestling match between McCready and Blomfield. Mother and daughter found brutally murdered .at Parramatta. In taxation the crowd at Ellerslie yesterday paid ovijr £12,900. Floods in Victoria inconvenience thousands of holiday-makers. Christmas bowling tournament advanced further stage to-day. Shaw, Savill fleet nnder new control as result of big shipping deal. Africa makes good recovery in second cricket Test against Australia. Steamer Golden Bear arrived from Pacific Coast ports last evening. Compulsory military training increased from one to two years in France. H. Simmonds ties for third in North Island rifle shooting championship. Auckland-Otago Plunket Shield cricket match continued at Eden Park to-day. Two air liners completed flight from Auckland to Nelson yesterday afternoon. Martial law declared in ' Shanghai, Nanking and Hankow following student disturbances. Seventy people killed in accident and by cold during Christmas blizzard in United States. Posthumous Victoria Cross awarded to British officer for bravery in NorthWest Frontier operations. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.