TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 265, 7 November 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Xew Zealand Cup day. Rowing races this afternoon. Pennant bowling matches to-day. Jubilee celebrations at Pakuranga. High water at Auckland, 1.40 p.m. Sunset, 7.0; sunrise to-morrow, ,5.0. Pacing at Whangarei and Hastings. Air mail due at Auckland on Monday. Victoria Cruising Club's races this afternoon. Wairangi due for final loading carbon Monday. Awatea due from Wellington at 8 a.m. on Monday. Governor-General to visit Gisborne next month. Expectations of rise in wool at next London sales. A.C.A. senior cricket matches con tinned to-day. Exhibition run by Lovelock at Wellington to-day. Niagara to arrive from Sydney at 11 a.m. on Monday. Barnett a century for England against Victoria. Further evidence to-day before taxicommittee inquiry. Tenders to be called for new post office at Hamilton. H.M.S. Achilles to call at a. number ot ports in the south. Officers elected for Auckland Employers' Association. Exhibition of baseball given in Auckland this afternoon. Prime Minister likely to make a tour of the South Island. Australia floating £7,500,000 internal loan for public works. Manawatu proposal for fifth Plunket Shield district rejected. Mrs. J. M. Wilson contested Taranaki golf final with Miss O. Kay. New Zealand farmer-airman expected at Sydney to-day from England. acht 1 ( arys, owned by Polish engineer, arrived this afternoon from Suva. Gold yesterday touched highest price of year in London, at £7 2/G per oz. Otago and Southland cricket associations rebuked by New Zealand chairman. Father and son jump from ba!coi?y in night attire when Warkworth house gutted by fire. An announcement that King Edward will visit Canada rouses speculation of an Empire tour. Baby trapped in cot in blazing house at Raglan rescued by father just before building collapsed. Placing of 50 more men in work on Waitakere Scenic Drive on Monday will bring total number employed there up to 107. • * Paraguay definitely backed by Argentine in recent war with Bolivia, says founder and director of Bolivia Inland Mission. Woman cyclist injured in collision with truck in Great North Road last November, awarded £292 damages by Supreme Court jury. Stowaway who travelled from Sydney on the Wanganella placed on probation to-day and ordered to pay boat fare within two months.

Mataroa arrived from London, via Panama, early this afternoon, with 143 passengers. She was flying yellow flag inscribed "Q.L.," indicating infectious disease during past week.

Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Bank of New South Wales, £35 10/; Broken Hill, £4 5/3; Consolidated Brick, 11/7; Morts Dock. 13/8; Farmers' Fertiliser, £1 0/6; Northern Boiler Milling, £1; Woolworths (Syd.), (2nd pref.), £1 5/0; Northern Steam, 4/3; Auckland"Gas (2), £1 2/; Mount Morgan (2), 14/11; Rural Bonds. September 15, 1947, 5 per cent, £104; Stock, June 15, 1952-55, (4), £105. Unlisted: Woolwortlis (Syd.), £0 3/; Silknit, £2. Kelleway's Bargain Furnishings —30 only heavy Axminster rugs, 29 x 50, 21/6, now 16/11; 20 only 50 x 25 tapestry rugs, 6/11. Newmarket.-—(Ad.) Amazing fur coat values, sgns, 6gns, 7gns, and mink marmot 15gns. You cannot afford to miss this opportunity. See our special window, Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall. —(Ad.) Kelleway's Furnishings—soin leather cloth, 2/11; 36in multi-colour awning cloth, 2/6; 36in green flax canvas, 2/11; 72in tent duck, 2/6. Newmarket.—(Ad.) Next week in the Cosmetic Section— Special demonstration of Pond's six aids to beauty. Be sure to inspect—Street Floor, Milne and Clioyce, Ltd.— (Ad.) Kelleway's Furnishings — Moquette squab, 19/11; 3ft kapok mattress, 16/11; kapok pillows, 1/11; folding camp stretchers, 17/11; camp mattress, 8/11. Newmarket.—(Ad.) Popular excursion by Duchess to beau- | tiful Oneroa, Sunday, 9.45 a.m.. from end Central Wharf. Fare 2/6. — (Ad.) See important advertisement Hotel Workers' Union, re nominations, for vacant elective offices. Page 24—J[Ad.) Kelleway's, The Blind Man! Yes! We blinds. All kinds. See new "Kirpson" blind. 48in nigger holland, from 1/11 yd. Newmarket. — (Ad.)