TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Second day of Te^t. T;> k:i j n:::i ami \Vanj;a!iui races. Bradnian l>r>\\ led dieaply by Ailen. Possible survey flight across Pacific. Whales seen i7l harbour late yesterday. Kinglet on ami O'diiehl tooli-l.lv run out. Trotting at Forbury Park ami Xcl-on. rii'ven Chinese arrested in police raid in city. After <:ood start Australia loses seven for 2(17. Prisoners at Moscow trial make final < hie farewell to H.M.S. Dunedin being arranged. S< i i:I) fires cause anxiety to residentof Taujin. Te Koa sails for London, via Panama, on Monday. Fames captures two wickets first over after luneh. Canadian Halifax arrived last evening from Halifax. Bri-liane Marti sail* for Japan on Monday afternoon. Hacchorse Kanapa killed in hurdle race at Kllerslie. Six Chinese arrested last night in an alleged opium den. Matua due on Monday morning from Suva with fruit cargo. Man prevented from falling from Grafton Bridge by passer-by. Road board clerk committed for sentence on charge of stealing £.">9*. Many boats capsized because of stormy conditions in harbour yesterday. Auckland sales tax collection for January reaches new record level. Labour M.P. pay.s tribute to high standard of Dominion newspapers. Three men in hospital as a result ot a ear's crash into a loitt at Milton. Wellington Fire Board to introduce scheme for checking false fire alarms. Xelson deputation asking Government to establish a tobacco research station. Secretary of Waipawa Hospital Board committed for trial on charge of theft. New Zealand butter on London market shows a slight recovcrv, being quoted at 90/. Five lives lost when Union freighter was sunk in a collision off the Australian coast. Geraldine headmaster suggests teacliinjr pupils by radio pending opening of schools. Minister of Lands encounters unpleasant conditions on clay roads on North Auckland tour. Customs revenue at Auckland for first month of year shows increase on amount for January, 1930. Farmers in Taranaki find difficulty in obtaining sufficient stock to keep luxuriant pastures in check. Kakariki. Union Company's carso steamer on Melbotirne-Hobart run. sunk off Gellibrand light. Tort Phillip; fi\e men missing. One-legged pensioner, charged wifV attempting to commit suicide, following an incident on firafton Bridge, remanded for sentence. Recommendations to Tie made to Oovernment by Minister of Lrltour to relieve Arbitration Court of work f; accumulating. Labourer who stole two £.1 notes from the room of a in a Palmerston North hotel, admitted to probation to-day for one year. Reformative detention for nine months ordered by magistrate for labourer, on false pretences charge, following his abuse of probation by failing to report. Acting Minister of Xative Affairs. Mr. Lanffstone. inspected progressive settlement of Maori farmers in Far Xorth. where he was received with traditional ceremony. Youth of 17. who told the police h° had 12 '"half-handles" of beer, remanded on charge of being in state of intoxication while in charge of a car on College Hill last night. Sales to-day on the Auckland Stock Exchange were:—Xew Zealand Breweries. £2 17/fi; Gear Meat. 17/-. Mount Eden. April 1. 1901. £100. L'jilisted: Woolworths (Syd.), £8 l.j/; Silknit, £3. Australasia's cTeatest value. £5 5/ set • of teeth for £2 10/. —E. Davie*. Ltd. (Dentist Da vies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.