TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water at Auckland, 4,20 p.m. Sunset 4.51; sunrise to-morrow, 6.44. City Council meeting to-night. Government to investigate timber prices. Tamaroa arrived yesterday from south. Old building in Princes Street damaged by Are. Band recital at Town Hall last evening. Emperor of Abyssinia explains horrors of war. Seaman killed through fall on . collier Kiwitea. Three deaths in shooting affray in Jerusalem. Perry and Austin both beaten by Frenchmen. Strength of German Navy shown tq be 150 ships. Duke of Gloucester injured while playing polo. Warships to carry out manoeuvres m gulf this week. Steamer Benholm arrived yesterday from New York. Human scores century for M.C.O. against Indians. •• Record score of 74 in British women's golf championship. Titirangi and Maungakiekie ■win senior golf matches. Government to make investigation of trout fishing at Taiipo. Motor ship Cape Horn due from Pacific Coast to-morrow night. Expulsions, and executions in Addis Ababa for alleged espionage. Service of blessing the city performed at St. Paul's Anglican Church. Remarkable confession left by Indian doctor hanged for wife murder. H.M.S. Dunedin docked this morning to prepare for her Island cruise. Official opening on Saturday evening of new Labour Social Club in Auckland. City traffic officers complimented on ' their work at annual parade this morning. Wanganella due from Sydney on Wednesday morning with air mail from London. Chairman of Warkworth Town Board thrown from horse and injured this morning. Baby car, stolen from Papakura last night, found capsized, at Hunua Gorge this morning. New Zealand woman missionary, beaten by natives in Abyssinia, rescued by Italian soldiers. Monterey arrived at Sydney this morning after a passage of 02 hours 30 minutes from Auckland. Notification of likely rise in timber prices received by Auckland merchants from King Country sawmillers. Two girlspand a boy who were lost last night in the Waitakere Ranges found this morning by search party. Auckland Royal Naval Volunteer Reservist ratings undergoing course of training this week on warships in gulf. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—-Bank of New Zealand, £2 5/0; Renown Colleries, 10/6; Auckland Gas, £1 6/1; Christchurch Gas, £1 13/6; Dominion Breweries, £1 3/; G. J. Coles, £3 17/6 (2); Milne and Choyce (deb. stock), 16/; Farmers' Fertiliser, £1 1/; New Zealand Refrigerating (con.), 9/3; Gillespie's Bcach, 1/3; Stock, 4 per cent (1937-40), £102 7/0; New Zealand Insurance, £3 0/9; Woolworths (N.Z.), £0 17/0 (2); King Solomon, 2/6 (2); Skippers, 2Ad; Mount Morgan, 14/9. Unlisted: Woolworths (Sydney), £9 15/. Austrftlasla's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —E Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworth3. —Ad.