TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 189, 11 August 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

New Zealand beats Essex. Sunset, 5.13; eunrise to-morrow, 6.38. High water at Auckland to-day, 10.36 p.m. Three deaths in 'plane crash at Daytona Beach. Test bowler takes all ten wickets in county oricket. Arbor Day observed in city and suburbs to-day. English Test captain Injured by a noball at the Oval. Y.M.C.A. appeal for funds resulted in raising of £12,165. Give reception to the Hon. W. Nash on Saturday night. Matua arrived from the Islands last evening with fruit. Lord Nuffield gives £35,000 for talking boojes for the blind. London butter market quiet; New Zealand back to 117/ per cwt. Loan exhibition of over 50 old masters opened in Art Gallery to-day. J. G. Eankin (Canterbury) flies to Wellington to join All Blacks. Australian League tourists play Maoris at Carlaw Park to-day. Forty-nine air raids carried out on London; 80 per cent intercepted. Mines at Glen Afton idle owing to dispute between management and men. Spanish rebels board French steamer at Las Palmas searching for deserters. Boy from Tonga comes to New Zealand to find work on Warkworth farm. Drainage scheme at Brown's Island approved by Harbour Board yesterday. Second fog this week, exceptionally heavy in city and suburbs this morning. • Cowie, Weir and Wallace best New Zealanders on final day of Essex match. Infantile paralysis cases in Melbourne number 67; first adult death announced. Goods train service between Napier and Wairoa to be instituted on August 23. Mataroa delayed by heavy weather; now due at noon on Saturday from Southampton. Musician remanded on charge of unlawfully converting to his own use car worth *£298. Good recovery made by natives affected by typhoid outbreak on Great Barrier Island. Many men and women arrested in Germany for allegedly trying to resurrect trade unions. Grim fight in which Maori brothers used gun and slasher related in Palmerston South Police Court. New terms of Army enlistment in Britain described as peace-time mobilisation by Mr. Churchill. New record established for last season by Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co. with an output realising £525.000. Mr. J. S. Shaw, well known trainer, appointed "stipendiary steward by Xew Zealand Trotting Conference. "There will be a general election next year," said Mr. Savage last night in reply to Christehurch criticism. Rehearing oi claim by Aucklan- , builder for £1000 damages for loss c wife in motor accident in Grey Lynn. Cabinet decides to make a start wit! development of 26,000 acres of rev:erteCrown securities to provide more worlRise of 3/ to 4/ per 1001b. representin 15/ to £1 per head increase in all classc of beef at Westfield fat stock sale to day. _ Inmate of workmen's home who stol his mate's boots, which a constable fourri concealed under his shirt, dealt with in Police Court. Careers masters and vocational gnid anoe officers to have recognised place in proposed new educational plan coming up next session. Criticism of rates of pay for traffic officers on duty during Springbok match voiced at meeting of Mount Albert Borough Council. _ Inquiry into costs of sugar production being conducted by Government, according to advice received by Farmers' Union in Auckland. Magistrate discovers flaw in new motor regulations, and dismisses charge of driving without care and attention in case where car ran backwards and smashed large plate-glass window. Intoxicated motorist at Woodville who hailed constable and demanded his driving license arrested after five-mile chase. Sales on the. Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Union Bank, £10 2/; Northern Steam, 3/10; Australian Glass, £4 15/; Taranaki Oil, 4/10; Martha, 15/9; Mount Morgan, 12/3; National Insurance, 18/; Westfield Stockton, 2/3; Kauri, £1 2/6; Kaiapoi Wool, 14/6; Dominion Breweries (rights), 12/, 6 parcels; N.Z. Breweries, £2 10/3. Unlisted: Wool worth's (Sydney), £6 4/9; McKenzie's, £4 4/6. Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/.— E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.