TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 207, 2 September 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Higli water at Auckland 7.37 p.m. Sunset 5.31; sunrise to-morrow 0.9. Watersider injured by rolling drum of oil. Australian footballers play in Wairarapa to-day. Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club meeting to-morrow. Score of 317 by Hammond in English County cricket. Niagara sailed for Sydney at 10.30 p.m. yestiVday. New Dalai Lama reported to have been discovered. Revolt of Spanish Moroccans reported to be imminent. -Mount Albert approves a community lighting scheme. Mr. W. J. Jordan formally assumes oflice in London. Better weather for ski championships at National Park. Verity takes over 200 wickets in English cricket season. Prime ox beef sold at Westfield today at 30/ per 1001b. National Council of United Miners requesting a "five-day week. Strong city opinion favours Domain as site for Fine Arts Centre. Dividend indicator to be installed ou the totalisator at Ellerslie. Good sale of hides, skins and tallow at Parnell stores yesterday. Mine sweeper Wakakura left for Wellington yesterday afternoon. New Zealand surgeon appointed doctor to Duke and Duchess of York. Italian and German air pilots said to be attached to Spanish rebels. Profit of £415 shown by Matamata Racing Club on year's working. Cambridge leaves to-night for Napier, to continue loading; for London. Portugal's attitude towards Spanish civil war becoming intolerable. Eight hundred horses being offered at Cambridge horse sale this week. Cabinet lias approved a grant for the erection of a new school at Howick. Awatea due at Wellington to-morrow morning from the Clyde, via Panartia. Bradford lady, engaged in 1890, coming to marry her fiance in Auckland. Two New Zealanders in final of women's golf championship of Australia. Rugby match to-day between Auckland and Wellington police at Edeu Park. Butter and cheese factory workers' industrial dispute before Arbitration Court. Serious leg injury suffered by horseman who was thrown and rolled on at Opotiki. Trying ordeal of passengers stranded in desert in forced landing of British air liner. Inspection of all food shops in Mount Eden Borough to be made by council's inspector. Maori injured when rifle carried by his son accidentally discharged at Te Awamutu. New Zealand suggestions for reform of League of Nations considered most interesting. One of John D. Rockefeller's present worries is how to spend his money to aid humanity. "Joy-riders," who travelled to Welling ton and back with two girls in converted cars, sent to prison. Mr. A. Tyndall, Under-Secretary of Mines, appointed director of State Housing Department. Butter and cheese markets quiet in London —New Zealand butter 11S/ per 2wt. white cheese 71/(5. Three motorists convicted of danger>us driving had their licenses endorsed it Police Court this morning. Police application for termination of •itv hotelkeeper's- license dismissed by icensing committee this morning. Appeal to workers to abide by the lecisions of the Arbitration Court made >y the president of the New Zealand Labour party. Concessions by. New Zealand under rade arranaement with Belgium may lecessarily be made also to thirteen fav>urcd nations. Minister of Transport, the Hon. R. Semple, determined to stop "wholesale laughter" of human life on the highvavs and byways. Mr. J. S. Barton, chairman of the bondholders' Commission, urges Governnent to hold an investigation into fforestation enterprises. Proposal to establish chair of New Zealand History as monument of )ominion's Centennial, opposed by Proessor Elder, of Dunedin. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange o-day were:—National Insurance, 18/3; )ominion Breweries (rights), 6/, 0/1; Auckland Gas, £1 3/; G. J. Coles, £4 >/0; Mount Morgan, 13/3; Stock. November, 1938-52. 3J per cent. £103 5/; New Zealand Insurance, £3 2/3 3); New Zealand Breweries,. £2 12/0 2); Australian Glass. £4 11/3; Bycroft, 2 1/0; Colonial Sugar. £43; Upper Vatut. 3/2; Auckland Harbour Board, uly 9. 1944. £104 15/. Unlisted: Voolworths (Sydney), £5 4/0. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set f teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davies, Ltd. Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.