TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Hijrli water to-day, 7 p.m. Sunset. 4.45; sunrise to-morrow, 7.3. Springboks win by another "cricket score." Search continues for lost American flyers. Several undefended divorces heard to-day. Him-li volcano expert to visit Xew Guinea. Maunjramii sails for Sydney at 10.0 to-nijrht. Steamer Yarra arrived from Sydney tlii- morning; Further rises in metal prices on London market. Keen demand for poultry at citv market* tβ-day. Leicestershire 439 for three wickets ajrainst Now Zealand. Seventy-six State houses planned for One Tree Hill district. (.'crinan (Jovernment popularising consumption of horseflesh. London woo] sales continue brisk, with Home market chief buyer. Steamer Omana arrived from Melboiirne with genera] oarpo. London market for hank and Treasury bills quoted slujhtly c-heapor. Keen demand for all irrades of tea at this week's Colombo (ialeXiapara to leave Sydney to-day, and due at Auckland on Monday. Civic reception at Town Hall to-mor-row to vu?itiiijr educationist?. Spanish Loyalists driven rebels back Jo to 20 miies on Madrid front. Acute shortage of houses in Auckland leading to overcrowded conditions. Devonport Borouph Council moves for improvement of vehicular ferrv service. Captains and team alterationannounced for All Black trials on Saturday. Price of <rold in London yesterday was £7 0/1 J per ounce. lowest tfaiyear. Constable's appeal against conviction by magistrate heard in Supreme Court to-day. Record stand by Berry and Prentice against New Zealand cricket team in England. Mariposa arrives from San Francisco at 7.0 to-morrow, and sails for Sydney at .i p.m. Most of Auckland taxi drivers refrain from taking out railway station arrival platform licen#er=.

Auckland Driver?' Union ex-seeretarv committed fo r sentence on a chame of theft of union funds. *■ Favourable balance of £36.000.000 shown in returns of Australia's overseas trade for year ended June 30. Australian mining shares selling at imjiroved prices on Christehurrh Stock Exchange this morning; market otherwise (|uiet. Visiting shipmaster declares ratlin direction rinding beacons on Xew Zea land coast not operated to best advantage of shipping. Xew Education Fellovship Conference which will open in Auckland on Satur day. will be most important of its kin: , yet held in Dominion. Twelve prominent oversea? edurn tionitits due to reach Auckland u< morrow to attend Xew Educatior Fellowship Conference. Australia's wool cheque for sea-r ended June 30 £66.000.000. larrr? return for nine years, and double that o depression year. 1031-32. X'orthcote branch of Labour party ]n decided to request the ftovenimoiit x expedite work on the harbour bridge .;- a means of absorbing the nnemjilnvcd. Duplication of vehicular traffic' Jan 1ings advocated by the Dev.wpni? Borouph Council. as inea:i- <.f i-o'iilm ; : -)-.- prevent congestion of trans-harbowr services. At her normal sirvice ~]<e<><\ Star sailed between Wellington ;i ;.I Auckland at average of nearly JO knot-. logging what us believed to be record time for pas«jge. Sales on the Auckland Stork Exchange to-day were:—Xew Zealand Insurance. £3 0/: Bank of Xew Zealand. £2 4/3 (21; Dominion Brewerio. £2 3/6; IT.M. Arcade (pref.i. fl 0/3; Grand Junction. 2/11; Broken Hill South. £2 0/3; Devonport Ferry. £1 0/3; Broken Hill Proprietary. £4 3/9; Dunlop. Perdriau. £1 2/7. £1 2/0; Mount Lyell. £2 2/10. £2 3/ (31; stock. February 15. 1943-46. ''4 per cent. £104; bonds." April 15. 194049. 4 per cent. £104 10/. Unlisted: Silknit (Xew Zealand). £2 10/; Whakatane Paper Mills, o/0; ■vVoolwortl'.s (Sydney), £G 19/ C.

Australasia's jrreatest value. £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. —K. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Daviesi. opp. Woolworths.—Ad.