TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

City Council adopts estimates. Opossum trapping season opened. City Council budgets for deficiency. Inquiry into loss of scow Kaiaia concluded. Stay-in strikes virtually ended in Fiance. Clover and Robins bowl well in Test cricket trial. Blom field defeats Boescli in returr wrestling bout. Wanganella due from Sydney at 9 a.m. to-morrow. Hospital levy necessitated half-penny increase in rates. Cliristchurch resident accorded highest philatelic honour. Ruahine expected from Wellington tomorrow morning. Imperial Conference to be held in London next May. Appeal to city ratepayers to support £377,000 works loan. Four air mails from London due by Wanganella to-morrow. Movement growing to separate Flanders from Belgium. Tremendous crater found in ocean bed off South African coast. Rev. W. C. Wood elected chairman of Auckland Hospital Board. Fresh records in May for five years in British overseas trade. Thief breaks into shop next door to Wellington police station. Fares by aeroplane between Wellington and Blenheim raised. Butter prices have eased in London; New Zealand now at 109/. Acquisition of whole site of old post office to be sought by city. Two Gordon Highlanders wounded in disturbances in Holy Land. Arab terrorists in Palestine continue to defy death penalty order. Counsel for defence opened his Address to jury in Mareo trial to-day. Strikes rapidly becoming general in Belgian mines and steel works. Sub-committee of Cabinet preparing Government broadcasting policy. Wellington man died suddenly in Sydney while en route to England. Nazi menace in South-west Africa becoming more and more insistent. H.M.S. Wellington and Leith leave for Pacific Islands at 10 a.m. to-morrow. Yugoslavia beats Austria to meet Germany in Davis Cup European zone final. Press report that Britain will lead the retreat from sanctions against Italy. Two prisoners escaped from Hautu prison camp, near Tokaanu, last evening. Teller in Bank of New Zealand at Mangaweka charged with theft of £7500. Mayor outlines plan of co-operation between bodies in metropolitan area. Storeman remanded on charge of breaking and entering store at Sandringliam. At least 20 people, mostly women and children, incinerated in Hyderabad cinema fire. Seamen's Union asks for Government inquiry into seaworthiness of heavilyengined scows. .. Some alarm in Magistrate's Court building to-day when entrance floor began to creep. Exterior appearance of Chief Post Office to be improved, as the buildiilg is to undergo cleaning. Main northern highway between Huapai and Waimauku closed for repairs, necessitating detour. Eighty-seven Manurewa homes have been given emergency water supplies during the past fortnight. Three English League players were injured when Queensland country team were beaten by 27 points. Fire in factory alongside gasometer last night caused anxiety among residents at Miramar, Wellington. "Our aim is to bring the benefits of broadcasting into every home," declares the Postmaster-General, the Hon. F. Jones. Loss of life when a car carrying a party of farmers returning from a funeral collided with a timber lorry near Wairau Valley. Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, approves change-over of Auckland's electric power supply from direct current to'alternating current. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—South British, £4 11/6; North Auckland Farmers (B pref.), 11/6; Northern Steam, 5/; Dominion Breweries £1 6/6; Anthony Hordern, 18/6; Mort's Dock, 10/; N.Z. Newspapers, £2 2/; Peters Ice, £1 4/6; Stock, 4 per cent, 1943-46, £104 5/; Auckland Transport, 1/4/46-52, £104; Union Bank of Australia, £9 12/; Bycrofts (ex rights), £2 1/6; Consolidated Brick, 10/; Henry Jones, £2" 0/9. Unlisted: Wool worths (Sydney), (2), £5 14/6, £5 14/3; N.Z. Permanent Forests, £3 1/; Waikato Carbonisation, £90. An Empire fur or fur coat embodies all that fashion demands. Prices lowest. Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.)