TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

-Springboks in Australia. High water to-day, 11.3S a.m. Sunset. 4.43; sunrise to-morrow. 0.54. America wins final two singles against Australia. Mother and infant sou struck by lorry at Takanini. Bromwich takes Australia's only set from Budge. Llewellyn abandons hopes of Cape flight record. I'owie l>est New Zealand bowler at Old Trafiord. British airliner mysteriously burnt in Karachi hangar. Further casualties in Xorth-Wefit Frontier lighting. Auckland again leads in Xew Zealand placement figures. Germany dissatisfied with Vatican answer to protest. Lancashire leads Xew Zealand bv 32 runs on first innings. Exceptionally heavy bookings on tonight s Limited express. Report to lie prepared on housing pensioners in Auckland. \\ estmoreland delayed in port owing to repairs to machinery. Xew Zealand solar scientists becoming acclimatised in Phoenix Islands. Blue Star Line steamer Doric Star sailed for London this, afternoon. Xo likelihood of increase in rates in Mount Roskill Road Board district. Hitler alarmed by German industrialists' gloomy forecast of future. London markets overstocked with fruit from Dominions and prices weaker. Rabaul, seat of Government of Xew Guinea, being slowly buried by volcanoes. Crawford fails to •win a set in three rubbers against American Davis Cup team. Generous Edinburgh biscuit magnate leaves fortune to Mr. Ramsav MacDonald. Former champion wrestler, now leading promoter in U.S.A., arrived bv Aorangi. A. K. Quist. Australia's tennis champion. in hospital at Xew York with jaundice. Long list of falling prices on London Stock Exchange resultant on Spanish situation. Desire of Dominions for Anglo-U.S. trade co-operation revealed at Imperial Conference. Aorangi arrived from Vancouver this morning; to sail at 3 p.m. to-morrow for Sydney. Seventy undefended petitions for divorce to be heard to-morrow in Supreme Court. Union Company's island steamer Matua due from Islands to-morrow afternoon with fruit. Trial shipment of 40 Xew Zealand heifers leaving for Shanghai by Sydnev Maru to-morrow. German bombardment of Spanish port sufficient reprisal for air-bombing of pocket battleship. Building permits issued by Auckland City Council during May totalled about £41,000 in value. Labourer arrested and remanded on charge of assaulting a man and causing actual bodily harm. Record attendance at annual meeting of Auckland branch of Christ's College Old Boys' Association. Dutch air service planned for next few months connecting Australia's capitals with Batavia. Warning that present prosperity in Dominion may be only temporary given by well-known business man. Acting-Prime Minister makes appeal for final effort in laet few days of King George V. Memorial Fund collection. = Third Test match against Springboks to be played at Eden Park subject to approval of Xew Zealand Rugby Union. Difficulties of detecting fraud in relation to Employment Promotion Fund explained by Labour Department official. Government grant made for additional equipment of engineering, woodwork and science departments at Seddon Memorial Technical College. Found hanging by one foot from a picket fence on a cliff-top early this morning, a drunken man "was later dealt with in Police Court. Billy Martin, Australian professional welter-weight, beat Stan Jenkin (Oamaru) with knock-out in eighth round at Town Hall last night. Shoplifting widow, who drank stout which her counsel said "excited the demon within her." sentenced to 21 davs' imprisonment for theft of child's cardigan. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day v-ero:—Commercial Bank. 19/1; | South British. £4 14/6; Colonial Sugar, f47: Farmers' Trading (new issue), first preference. £1 l/ ; X.Z. Refrigerating (paid). 10/; Taranaki Oil, 3/10; Martha (3), 15/; Grand Junction (3). 2/11; Renown Coal. 11/; Dunlop, £1 o/; Union Oil. £1 6/. Unlisted: Woolworths (Sydney), £7 0/6, £7, £7 0/6. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ se' of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Daviee, Ltd (Dentist Da vies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.