TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sunset. 7.5; sunrise to-morrow, 5.5. X.Z. cricketers play Victoria to-day. High water at Auckland to-day. 1.27 p.m. Parliament to sit on Mondays in future. Second League Test in England tomorrow. X.Z. Cup meeting terminates tomorrow. Eminent London correspondent killed in Shanghai. imperial Monarch sailed for Newcastle I this morning. Remarkable scene during silence at Cenotaph in London. Labour wins 16 of 19 seats in Australian Senate election. Undefended divorce petitions heard in Supreme Court to-day. Kotorua and Kay of Plenty Annual hunt meetisjr to-morrow. Chit of cauliflowers and cabbage at markets, owing- to rain. Indications of Poland and Brazil becoming Fascist States. lx>ndon butter market weak; New Zealand back to 138/ per cwt. Xapier Star will arrive from Liverpool at 10.30 a.m. to-morrow. Cilt-edjred stocks make further advances oil London exchange. Bananas selling very cheaply wholesale. larjre quantities ripening. Chinese 'planes presumably en route to attack Japan, destroyed at sea. Remarriage of divorced persons discussed by Presbyterian Assembly. Port Hunter arrives from London via Wellington at 8 a.m. on Monday. Annual rose show of Auckland Horticultural Society continued to-day. Heavy supplies of poultry; prices a little lower at city markets to-day. Elderly man incinerated in two- ; roomed wliare near Kuineu yesterday. Stratlimore, second short summer . cruiser, due from Brisbane next Friday. ! Bradford market quiet; little busi--1 ness passing pending London wool sales, j Mariposa arrives from Sydney at 7 a.m. on Monday and berths at King's wharf. '■ Unoccupied coupe completely wrecked when driven by wind into Tajnaki Creek. ; Auckland yacht Manene to compete ' in Sydney Anniversary Regatta in ■January. Continued recovery in metal prices on London market; tin rose £12 a ton " yesterday. Reduction of 15.875 in number of unI employed disclosed in returns for month i of October. ■. Two slv-grog sellers sentenced, one to i-1 two months' imprisonment and the othejto seven days. World cruise of Bremen definitely cancelled; cabled, advice received by Auckland agents. Duke of Windsor, offended by English clergyman, does not attend Paris Armistice Day ceremony. Allegations by counsel in Police Court to-day that "big shots" were behind Auckland sly-grog shops. Presbyterian Assembly discusses scheme for raising stipends of ministers and married home missionaries. Young man formerly employed in a city solicitor's office fined £5 for posting indecent lettei 1 to man in Epsom. Sunday 8 p.m. from Vancouver with large passenger list. 276 of whom will disembark at Auckland. A fatjier of 11 children, who admitted making false statements under the Employment Act, prosecuted at Dunedin. Due to Far East unrest Matson Line advance bookings -indicate heavy passenger traffic to Xew Zealand until at least- rApril.-T Xumber of sustenance men before Police Court to-day for making false declarations. One who had made a number since a warning was issued last May, sentenced to one month's imprisonment and fined £25. Sales on 'Change to-day were:— Dominion Breweries. £2 0/6: Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 3/3, £3 3/9 (3) ; Woolworths holdings. 14/41; Mount Morgan. 12/2, 12/1; Bank of Xew Zealand. £2 4/2. £2 4/3; South British. £4 18/3; Broken Hill (rights). £1 9/6. « 9/6. £19/9. £19/10; Mount Lvell. £t 16/3; Rawang Tin. 10/7J; Taranaki Oil. i 6/. 5/9Australasia's greatest value, £5 5/ set '■ of teeth for £2 10/. — E. Davies, Ltd. (Dentist Davies), opp. Woolworths.—Ad.