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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sunset 7.32; sunrise to-morrow 5.38. i M.C.C. v. Rangitikei match abandoned. Australian quartet cliosen Tor Davis i Wales wins two football internationals. Fifth anniversary of Hawke s Bay earthquake. Roads and railways blocked by slips and washouts. Many houses in Whangarei isolated by floo'd waters. Prisoners sentenced at Supreme Court this morning. Wales beat Scotland at Rugby and England at League. High water at Auckland 3.36 p.m.; !> to-morrow 4.16 a.m. |>" Damage estimated at £1000 done in Cornwall Park by gale. Auckland swimming senior champion- - ships to-morrow night. Salesman fined £10 at Police Court i to-day for bookmaking. Several passengers injured in railway " accident near Makarua. - • Mysterious features in death of British trade union leader. 3 Palmerston North man blown off a y roof and fatally injured. ■, Mataroa with English mail arrived at 4 Auckland to-day from London. Heavy loss of dairy stock and sheep - in floods throughout the province. Six injured in head-on collision between two motor cars near Tuakau. British expedition plans attack on " Everest between May 20 and June 10. Young man drowned at Kaitaia, while salvaging effects from s. flooded house. Report in London that America has . "annnexed" three islands in the Pacific. •- Britain and Australia endeavouring ' to reach agreement on air mail services. ii Unexpected development in Paris of - the murder of man in St. Albans, Lon- _• don. . J Whole Island and portion of *' South Island swept by severe cyclonic I storm. r Of six air pilots only one passed in" r. advanced "'blind flying" test in Mel- ~ bourne. 1 Four overseas mails, including two Empire air mails, arrived in New Zea- - land to-day. ' ■ Niagara arrived to-day from Sydney e with some 300 passengers and an Eng- ? lish air mail. ' Twelve-yea-r-old lad blown off his ' bicycle at Mount Albert yesterday, suf--3 fering concussion and a broken arm. r Heavy toll taken by storm among >• Auckland's large fleet of pleasure craft, r beaches being littered" with wreckage. >' Unusual case of a Maori, who had j pleaded guilty before two justices. I denying his guilt when he appeared - for sentence at Supreme Court to-day. X Three fishermen waded ashore from - wrecked launch on Puketutu Island .in l°. Manukau Harbour, narrowly escaping 4 drowning. , . it Original Maori Mission Church on the p shore of Lake Rotorua. at Ohineniutu, - demolished by fury of Saturday night's n storm. C Full caucus of Government members 5 to be called to approve draft of proi posed legislation for next session of ® Parliament. C Limited express from Wellington to- [* day running five hours behind schedule i' owing to dislocation of the service due ? to storm damage. ; Yachtsman injured internally when - struggling to prevent his launch from being wrecked on the rocks below the 5 Marine Parade. Cruise ship Otranto, with SOO passengers. due at Auckland from Australia on Wednesday afternoon. Rangatira badly holed in blinding , southerly .sale when she struck a sub- ; merged object off Wellington Heads on !j Sunday morning. : Nightmare experience for power • boards' staffs who have worked continuously night and day attending to power line faults. l Caretaker of the Zeehan mine, north i of Thames, lost his life, when the hut in which he was sleeping was swept I into the Pulioi stream. • Launch Wainui and mullet boat Twi- ® light wrecked near Rangitoto beacon g early on Sunday morning, occupants ; liavin? oreat difficulty in reaching shore, i; Owing to unusual circumstanc»s - involved, a former traffic inspector of j an Auckland local body before Supreme 4 Court to-day on two charges of theft as F. a servant was admitted to probation. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange, to-dav were: Farmers' Trading, 8/1; t Xew Zealand Newspapers. £2 0/9; Commercial Bank (2), 10/2; Abraham and Williams (pref.), £4; Broken Prop., £2 19/9; Wool worths (X.Z.), £5 17/6. Unlisted: British and Dor. minion Investment. S/; Reid Rubber, - 15/3. )■ Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.— B. Daries, Ltd. (Dentist Davieshopp. Woolworths. Ad.