TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 9 December 1936, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wellington wool sale to-day. Pope's condition "much better." Cambridge beats Oxford at Rugby. Strike epidemic spreading in France Teachers' appointments announced. Sunset 7.32; sunrise to-morrow 4. "..3. Sanders Cup trials sailed in Wellington. High water at Auckland to-day 3. p. in. Second big battleship launched in Germany. Cyclist injured in accident at Ponsonby. Awatea to sail at 5 p.m. to-day for Sydney. Increase in Harbour Board receipts for past month. Meeting of Auckland Presbytery held last evening. Mount Eden swimming carnival tomorrow night. '*' Birkenhead Borough Council byelection to-day. Eastmoor arrived last evening with sugar from Java. H.M.S. thinedin arrived from Wellington tlii.s morning. Christcliurch City Council to investigate milk supply. Australian Cabinet further considers Tasman air plans. < Regulations issued to fix price of Jamaican oranges. Railway derailment near Greatford delays express train. Big overseas mail reached Auckland to-day via Wellington. English selector predicts Allen will return with the Ashes. . y French view taken that British crisis is upsetting whole world. Famous French air ace believed lost in South Atlantic tragedy. Thousands of refugees in terrible plight after Turkish floods. Transport company operating on North Shore fined for overloading. All berths at the wharves still occupied with overseas vessels. Astronomers preparing for observation of solar eclipse next Monday. Auckland Horticultural Society's summer show to open to-morrow. Frank Ward, young Australian bowler, succeeds in Test cricket debut. English captain in Test top-scores for his country asrainst Australia. London butter market is slow, with Xew Zealand quoted at 104/. Draw for provincial tournament made by Auckland Cricket Association. Exhibition of pictorial photography to be opened at Art Gallery to-morrow. Australia, with nine wickets to fall, requires 378 to win Test at Brisbane. Former Auckland University scholarship holder killed in Spanish* civil war. "Kid" Chocolate, former world featherweight champion, beaten in New York. Combined Canterbury and Otago cricket team to play English touring team.

. Pluto warned, by Xew Zealand BoxiiiT Association, and rematclied with McMahon. Increase of 5/ in shooting licensee approved by Auckland Acclimatisation Society. Increased tariff at Training Cblle?e Hostel decided on by Auckland Education Board. Business on London Stock Exchange slowed down in consequence of constitutional crisis. Majority .of union secretaries in Trades Hall favour remodelling' of existing building. Thousands of Australian oranges due next week from Australia, and will b-j sold at a fixed price. Awatea made a smart run up the coast from Wellington,' occupying only 31 hours 40 minutes. Seaman who entered a house and assaulted a sick woman sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Consideration being given to revision of regulations under which employees at the Xaval Base are engaged. Further argument to-day in Supreme Court petition for judicial separation brought by wife > against her husband. Deputation from Technical College Board urged on Education Board to-day necessity for increased playing areas. Abolition of exchange rate has ceased to be a live issue in Auckland, as business men consider it would disorganise trade. , ' British cotton manufacturers, with £1.000,000 worth of Coronation orders .on hand, are calmly awaiting outcome of crisis. London traders report no large cancellation of Coronation orders! but work suspended on 1 flags and bunting containing King's portrait. Sales on 'Change to-day wore: — National Insurance, 18/; Colonial Sugar. £43; Consolidated Brick. 10/10: a. J. Coles. £4 10/3; Mount Lyell. £1 10/0; Mount Morgan, 1 ■>/.*">: Stock. Marcli, 1939-43, Si per cent, £101 10/: Farmers' Trading, £1 0/P; Farmers' Fertiliser, 18/0. Unlisted: Self ridges (tew), £1 17/ G. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.— K. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Da vies i, opp. Wool worths.—Ad.