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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day. 4.31. Sunset, 7.22; sunrise to-morrow, 4.55. First round of English Soccer cup games. Waltzing mice latest curiosity in London Zoo. Tenders called for additional State home* at Orakei. Xew Zealand parachutist makes descent from 7<Xloft. American scientists believe they have found clue to cancer. Brentford, English Soccer leaders, defeated on Saturday. Fears for safety of Russian party on drifting Arctic icefloe. Fast century l>y F. W. Bycrley in Auckland senior cricket. Mussolini's son. in book on Abyssinia, says "war is great fun.*' Auckland team selected for Empire f!ames trials at "Wellington. Los Angeles district in grave peril from tremendous landslide. French Prime "Minister and Foreign Minister in London for talks. Remarkable innings })y Auckland dammar cricketer on Saturday. Second day of Takapuna . Jockey Club's meeting at Ellerslie to-day. Two 10-year-old girls hold up g«ragc attendant in Xew .Jersey township. Rev. 1). .T. Davie* appointed vicar of St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington. France, Britain and America protest to Japan against action in Shanghai. A bell-boy on the Aorangi before Police Court to-day for assaulting two barmen. Special church service last night for Masonic Grand Lodge and sister institutions. Matua arrived from the Islands this morning and will leave for Wellington to-morrow. Children of nine city orphanages to be taken to picnic at Eastern Beach to-morrow. Boy drowned in Whau Creek at Avondale; another lost in deep water at Wbangarei. Awatea arrived from Wellington this morning, and will sail at 5 p.m. to-day for Sydney. (■reek author to spend month in tour of Xew Zealand collecting material for inclusion in book. Aorangi arrived from Sydney this morning, and will sail for Vancouver at 11 a.m. to-morrow. i Start made this morning by Auckland City Council through Placement Office to put 212 men in work. Miss Mary Mitchell (Dargaville) breaks Empire Games javelin throw record at Carlaw Park. Four Auckland yachts going to Sydney in January to compete in world's championship 18-footer race. Samoan who took half-crown bets on the hill at Ellerslie on Saturday lined £•") on bookmaking charge this morning. Auckland City and Suburban Drainage Board to employ 50 men on Thursday under special local body subsidised scheme. Well-known English big game fisherman returned to Xew Zealand by Aorangi on thirty-eighth visit to this country. Training and depot ship Philomel, aided by two tugs, transferred to Calliope wharf this morning preparatory to docking to-morrow. Auckland Transport Board decided to-day to enter into negotiations for taking over the bus service between the city and St. Helier's. Five pounds a week asked in Arbitration Court this morning for Auckland cleaners, caretakers, liftmen, watchmen and lift controllers. H.M.S. Wellington will return from Hauruki Gulf to man-of-war anchorage at naval base to-morrow to take in tow large battle-practice target. "Smithy's" brother, arrival by Aorangi. expects information regarding fate of famous aviator as result of search to be made of island of Aye, off coast of Burma. Described *s an undesirable immigrant, a steward with English and New Zealand convictions, sentenced to-day to six months' imprisonment for theft of two suits. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Abraham, Williams. £3 12/0; Traders' Finance (con.), 5/1; , Westport-Stockton, pref., 5/4; Xew Zealand Breweries, £2 5/, (2) £2 4/9; Australian Glass. £4 4/3."£4 4/6; Dunlop Perdriau, £1 1/10; Electrolytic Zinc. £2 (5/; Farmers' Trading, £1; Wilsons Cement. 18/; Mount Lyell. £1 13/3; Mount Morgan, 11/7; Xew Zealand Insurance, £3 4/0; Westport-Stockton. 2/7; Broken Hill Proprietary (5), £3 1/3. rights (3) £1 7/10; Woolworths (Svdnev) (5). £1 3/; C. J. Coles (21. t £4 0/0; Mount Lyell. £1 13/3. £1 13/; Electrolytic Zinc (late sale Saturday). £2 4/0." Unlisted: Perpetual Forests, £2 2/0.