TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 230, 28 September 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Summer Time began yesterday. Sunset 6.22; sunrise to-morrow G. Boy drowned in pool near K.iwhia. Two burglaries reported at Thames. High water at Auckland 4.49 p.m. Air mail reached Auckland to-day. Tiny Republic of Andorra occupied by France. Final stages of Manukau by-election campaign. Dramatic suicide of oncb famous woman spy. New Hamilton telephone building to cost £t>ooo. Pine forest plantation damaged by fire near Rotorna. Ten bands entered for provincial contest at Whangarei. Arab womth fighting in Palestine against British troops. Boy injured at ilatangi, in Waikato, through fall from tree. Important currency agreement between Britain, France and U.S.A. Minister of Railways, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, visiting Auckland. Premier of New South Wales, Hon. B. S. Stevens, in Auckland. Fifty men started on Waitakere scenic drive work this morning. Awatea arrived from Sydney at 8.30 t/iis morning, with 404 passengers. Sight-seeing trips this morning for Chambers of Commerce delegation. Motor ship Hokitika went aground at Greymouth, but reached wharf safely. Australian delegates to Chambers of Commerce Congress arrived by Awatea. Aorangi arrived from Vancouver l&st evening, and is to leave for Sydney at 11 p.m. Daylight railcar service, connecting Auckland and Wellington in nine hours, proposed. Mystery of death of wealthy young Melbourne woman found in Sydney Harbour. Golden jubilee of Auckland Manufacturers' Association celebrated on Saturday evening. Port Fairy arrived from Lyttelton this morning; she will sail for London on Wednesday. Cumberland arrived from London this morning and anchored off the powder ground, Motuihi. Minister of Industries and Commerce met representatives of kauri gum industry this morning. Destruction of herd of purebred cattle in Taranaki ordered owing to outbreak of Johne's disease. Railwaymen complain that the department has not restored the full 1931 standard of wages. Railways returns show substantial increase when compared with figures for same period last year. Australian Minister of Defence in New Zealand to discuss Trans-Tasman section of the air mail. Elderly man died in hospital this morning as result of a fall on concrete floor of garage yesterday. Two bookmakers working in partnership each fined £75 for using premises, as a common gaming house. Australia's vigorous defence policy outlined by Commonwealth Minister of Defence, who arrived to-clay. Vivid account of fire on liner Ormonde given by woman passenger who arrived by the Awatea this morning. Scow Tamahae, which sank early on Saturday morning, between Tiri and Rangitoto beacon, not in fairway. Overseas Chamber of Commerce delegates, for Federation of Chambers of Commerce Congress, reached Auckland. Young' man who masqueraded as a woman remanded in Police Court to-day on charge of stealing a motor car worth £2.30. Brutal attack on young woman at Avondale just after midnight on Saturday, her unknown assailant dismounting from a bicycle. ° Twenty-seven delegates to the fourteenth Congress of the Federated Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire arrived by Aorangi last evening Prices for wheat are making farmers happy, according to Mr. T. Frank Matthews, of Toronto, one of two Canadian delegates to Chambers of Commerce Congress. While conditions are good in England, the country is sitting on the edge" of a ' European volcano," says Mr. A? Aiton, one of the British delegates to the Chambers of Commerce Congress. _ Relief that the forthcoming congress is one of the most important gatherings of kind, expressed by Lord Elibank, president of Congress of the Federated Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth fo- £2 10/.— E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies). opp. Woolworths. —Ad.