TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 236, 5 October 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Floods in rivers on west coast. Hotel destroyed by lire at Kamo. House damaged by fire in city area. High water at Auckland, 10.56 p.m. Sunset, G.2S; sunrise to-morrow, 5.51. Glider fatality in Victoria yesterday. Fire in scunic reserve near Rotorua. British girl wins American golf title. Fire in drapery store at Invercargill. Auckland tallymen seek new award. Taumarnnui races at Paeroa again today. Several people injured in motor collision at Wiri. H.M.S. Dunedin docked this morning for refitting. Derby, English Soccer leader, beaten by Brentford. Rowdy scenes in London, police baton charge Fascists. Parachute descents at Mangere aerodrome yesterday. Chamber of Commerce Congress at Wellington to-day. Ponsonby win both Gallaher Shield and Jubilee Trophy. Canadian Highlander arrived yesterday from Montreal. Annual reunion of railway officers held on Saturday evening. Land at Orakei to be used for Government scheme of housing. H.M.S. Achilles removed from Western wharf to Calliope to-day. Anniversary celebrations in Pitt Street Methodist Church. Public will not be affected by increase in wholesale price of flour. Canadian Challenger sails for Montreal at daylight to-morrow. Golden Cloud arrived yesterday afternoon from Pacific Coast ports. Over £200 received in collections at St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday. Lovelock beaten by Kansas University student in mile race in America. Jean Batten waiting weather report for start of flight to New Zealand. Silver Ring and Capris win at Randwick, where Gold Rod failed in Der-by. ICanna will tow Loongana from Melbourne to Japan; both to be broken up. Tamaroa arrived from Wellington last evening to complete loading for London. Work of relaying tram tracks in Queen Street began early this mornimr Price of flour in 2001b sacks raised 3/6 per ton to £13 15/6 by local Wheat Committee. New Auckland offices of State Placement Service officially opened this morning. Wanganella due at 1.30 p.m. tomorrow from Sydney, with 100 passengers. Mr. Philip Le Quesne, of Hamilton, to celebrate his one hundredth birthday on Wednesday. Three-year-old child suffocated at Westport apparently through swallowing a stud. General approval given for proposed design of workers' homes under Government plan.. Man with bad record for forgery sentenced to two years' imprisonment for false pretences. Defended divorce action, in which husband alleges adultery, continued in Supreme Court to-day. TajKi drivers, plumbers and coal merchants hoaxed on a large scale by fictitious calls during week-end. Glen Eden town cierk, who stole £3DO in six months, sentenced in Supreme Court to twelve months' imprisonment. Very heavy deliveries of New Zealand dairy produce in London last week; total 2670 tons of butter and 22,122 crates of cheese. Civil engineer sentenced to three months' imprisonment to-day. on a charge of obscene exposure in Queen Street shop. Two young Maoris from Tauranga who assaulted a man and stole a bottle of beer, each sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Tribute to State placement organisation made by the Mayor, Mr. Ernest Davis, in message read at opening of new local offices. Air mechanic who admitted stealing tools valued at £44 and an aero magneto, which he had assigned to a creditor, remanded for sentence. Inquest opened on well-known Auckland man found shot in mysterious circumstances on Pukekohe Road early yesterday morning. Two seamen who broke into Queen Street music store placed in care of Salvation Army till November, when they will rejoin vessel. Industrial Efficiency Bill defended by Mr. Allum, president of Auckland Manufacturers' Association, at Chamber of Commerce meeting to-day. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange were: Commercial Bank (pref.), £9 3/6; Bank» of New South Wales, £32 12/6Colonial Sugar, £43 5/; Farmers' Trading, 18/10; Placer Development, £4 19/0; Amalgamated Brick (Auckland), £99 15/; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 17/3, £3 17/4*; Consolidated Brick (3) 9/6G. J. Coles (rights), £1 13/. Australasia's greatest value. £5 5/ se t of teeth fo- £2 10/.— E. Da vies, Ltd. (Dentist Da vies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.