TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 300, 18 December 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sunset. 7.35: sunrise. 4.57. Awatea due at 1 p.m. on Monday from Sydney. High water at Auckland to-day, 7.4!t p.m. Metal prices a fraction easier on the London market. Seaman li?fore Police Court to-day on. assault charge. Triumphal entry of Japanese into Chinese capital. Two youriis drowned while bathing in Southland river. Strathaird to sail for Wellington at I 1 o'clock to-night. Theatre at Exhibition to show Empire films. Former world lieavy-weiglit boxing champion critically ill. l.otiilnii lamb market short of supplies and quotations nominal. World champion lawn tennis players beaten again in Australia. Marked firming in world wool markets reported from London. < Ivor 1 .(MHl.oon Russians voted against Communists at general election. De Valera makes de facto recognition of Italy's complect of Abyssinia. New German order to reduce length of men's shirt tails to save material. New Zealand Empire (James team will comprise 07 members and 14 officials. Flying boat Centaurus at Darwin en route from England to New Zealand. Cheerful tone on London StO'-k Exchange; oil and goldmining shares rise. Fatal injuries suffered by elderly man knocked off bicycle at Western Springs yesterday. British investors reassured by Prime Minister's statement deprecating fears of a slump. New industrial course to be instituted when Takapuna Grammar School resumes work. With daily average of more than ten overseas ships in port, waterfront remains very active. Teams race this afternoon between six boats of the M and V classes; also the T and V classes. Towboat Kaiwhaka. built for Wanganui River trade, will be launched in Auckland on Monday. Dairy export returns for spring months show increase in both butter and cheese shipments. Public Works Department men at Orakei still dissatisfied with terms and conditions of employment. larger numbers of unmarried men and women in New Zealand commented on by Government Statistician. Two trimmers from overseas ships remanded to-day on three charges, arising out of disturbance in Queen Street. Law students complain that increase in LL.B course has motive in desire of profession to restrict number of lawyers. Increases in church adherents in Dominion headed by Anglicans, with Presbyterians second and Catholics third. Memliers of both Courts of Arbitration left last evening for Wellington for | summer recess; sittings to resume in Auckland in February. •Tockev who fell from Limited express last night, when the train was in motion, now in Hamilton Hospital suffering from concussion. Full details of payment of Christmas bonus to -workers under Government schemes and holiday arrangements announced by Minister of Labour. Students may petition University Senate that longer period of grace than two years should lie given students now taking law course under existing syllabus. Approximately 800 children from poorer areas of city entertained at Christmas parties held to-day by City Mission and Royal Antedeluvian Order of Buffaloes. Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Kauri. £1 1/11; N.Z. Newspapers. £1 18/; Wool worths (Sydney), £1 ,5/6. £1 6/; N.Z. Drug, £3 10/. £3 9/; Stock. 1943-40, 4 per cent. £103; ditto. 1040-40, 4 per cent, £102 10/; ditto. November, 193S 52. 3J per cent, ex interest. £101 5/. Kelleway's Xmas Gifts; 50 only. 24 x 50. chenille reversible mats, (i/11 for 4/11; 10 only, 9x9 English consoleum stjua res. 25/. —Newmarket.— (Ad.) Photograph taken and framed in one minute, 1/. Enlargements, 2/0. Cooke's, Queen Street.— (Ad.) Kelleway's Xmas Gifts: 12 only, electric reading or table lamps. 9/11 each; folding camp stretchers. 10/0: camp mattresses for same. 9/11. —Newmarket. (Ad.) Select Vuiir Ninas gift now from Em•pi re Furriers. Wonderful display. Ad-drer-s; Opp. Town Hall clock.— < Ad.) ! Kelleway's making service: Caravan cushions, launch cushions, squabs, hall -eats. Yes. ue make blinds. G«n your [orders in earlv.— Newmarket.— (Ad.l