TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 289, 5 December 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

King's abdication. Announcement likely on Monday. Pennant bowling to-day. Waikato and Xew Brighton trots. Firm values at Napier wool sale. Sunset, 7.28; sunrise to-morrow, 4.55. Athletic meeting at Domain this afternoon. Child injured in fall from mother's • arms. Forty-four hour week for freezing trade. Ol.d boys' day at Sacred Heart College to-morrow. Lovelock athletic carnival at Carlaw Park to-day. Surprise in New South Wales tennis championship. Xew Zealand Star sails for London at 5 p.m. to-day. A.C.A. cricket matches this afternoon at Eden Park. Three rowing clubs held trial fours this afternoon. Aorangi is due from Sydney at 7.30 a.m. 011 Monday. England scores 203 for six wickets in first Test yesterday. Leyland makes a century and saves England from collapse. Britons in Madrid warned of possible orders for withdrawal. . High water at Auckland to-day, 12.20 p.m.; to-morrow, 1 p.m. Mrs. Simpson reaches France and is reported to be in Paris. Suburban Cricket Association played trial match this afternoon. Mr. Baldwin makes important statement in House of Commons. McCready defeated Blomfield in wrestling match at Hastings. Dominions reported to be against the King's marriage to Mrs. Simpson. Offices at Town Hall closed to-day following adoption of five-day week. Australian bill to protect British Tasman shipping introduced in Senate. New Zealand Shipping C'o. has' record number of six large vessels in port today. Steamer Inverbank, loaded with Fijian copra, reaches Tonga with fire in hold. Heavy casualties inflicted by British punitive column in North-West Frontier of Tndia. Tamaki and Akarana Yacht Clubs holding cruising and harbour races this afternoon. New open-air swimming bath at Milford beach to be opened officially next Saturday. Unmarried housekeeper sent to gaol for a week on one of three charges of theft from her employer. "Royals" holding race for M class this afternoon to decide boat to go Lyttelton to meet local M class. "The Timeg," London, thinks 110 legislation can meet objections to King's marriage to divorced woman. Widow, aged 60, arrested yesterday and remanded to-day in custody on a charge of unlawfully using an instrument. Mrs. Freer en route to New Zealand on Awatea following Court's dismissal of application against Federal Immigration Act. Bishop of Wellington thinks King might not be able to find an Anglican clergyman willing to perform marriage ceremony. Mr. W. J. Lyon, M.P.. will not enter milk business at Devonport 011 Monday: supply arrangements against which he protested to lie altered. Sensational incident outside Farmers' Trading Company's premises at Pokeno early this morning, when detectives surprised three men, one of whom escaped. Maori wounded and now in Auckland Hospital in consequent of sensational arrest at Pokeno, when detectives fired shots as men made off in darkness. A salesman, who surrendered, remanded today on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond in possession of housebreaking implements. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were: —E. S. and A. Bank, £5 19/6; Bank of New Zealand (2), £2 2/2; Westport-Stockton, 1/5; Con. Brick. 10/10; Northern Steam, 4/9; Waihi Invest., 12/6; Mount Morgan, 14/8. Mount Morgan (2), 14/9; Stock, 15/2/43-46, 4, £101 10/. Unlisted: Woolworths (Syd.), 7/6, 7/5. Kelleway's Xmas Bargains. —4ft x 2ft velvet pile floor rugs, 12/11, now 9/11; 25in x 52in tapestry rugs, 9/11, now 6/11; 6x9 congoleum squares, 18/11. — Newmarket. — (Ad.) Kelleway's Xmas Bargains. —250 yds striped Bemberg silk, 9Ad; 4Sin shadow tissue, 1/6; 40 only, D.B. Alliambra quilts, figured centres, 12/11, now 6/11. Newmarket. — (Ad.) Xmas Poultry, finest; turkeys, chickens, geese, ducklings, fowls. Order """• Nola, Svmonds St. Phone 42-415.— (Ad.J i Kellewav Furnishing Bargains— 3tt fty 6ft seagra'ss mats, 2/11: 27in Axm.nster ' runner, 12/11. now 0/11 yd; En Ihki ■ linoleum, Oft wide, 5/6 yd. Neumaike . ; (Ad.)