TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

I . ! Hiuli water to-day, 0.24 p.m. Increase in jurors' tecs gazetted. i Sunset. ">.1O; sunrise to-morrow, b\2S. j Queen Elizabeth's mother seriously ill. Sensation in Wimbledon tennis conj tt-t^. Mayor of Otahulm returned unopl.ose<r. j -More local liodv nominations recelvetl .tii-day. I Copper jirices slic:litlv higher in iLondon. I Kup-liy senior chiiniploiwMp ♦•- I morrow. I City toh n>n in employee fined tor fortune-telling. I New hospital le\y described by Mayor as "bitter pill."' Soccer lower grade competitions under way to-morrow. ( nnlinl talkn lietween BrlMsfc an<! Fri'iicli Ministoi*. Waii«anella will not sail for Sydney until noon to-morrow. Fifteen candidates for eight ?eats on Otaliulm Horougli Council. KiaiH-oiiia sailed for Suva last evening in continuation of her cruise. Kxtnionlinary precautions to protect Heir Hitler on \isit to Italv. Officers for new season elected by Alu-klfiud Boxinir Association. Brijrhter tone and sliplitlv advanced prices on Bradford tops market. Torrential rain causes interruption in electric power supply la>=t night. Serious shortage of feed for etock likely in Southland this winter. Increase in number of radio licenses issued in Dominion up to March 31. Balanced budget for city in sight, said '. Mayor at council meeting last night. J Mr. .T. A. Redwood re-elected president of Xew Zealand Ruirby League. Consols and stocks slightly easier in London but New Zealands are steadier. I Royal Humane Society's medal presented to City Council official last nio-ht. British freighter City of Yokohama vi-its many strange ports in quest of Bananas still selling cTieapty tm wholesale market: down to 3d a pound retail. Decline in prices of Fiji Trii»»»4ertn« since fir<st shipment of year arrived by j Matua. I Further rise in London bTrtt#r frton ■ : J New Zealand at 127/ per cwt. equal to Danish. Bradman's request for eiiTwttHota for Barnes, injured Australian criek#ter, refused. Driver escaped injury wnert Wafct Hti i-ollided with train at Te Papapa mrtmsing yesterday. Bust of Tfishop fompaWfr »»v A«Aland sculptor accepted for exhibition by Royal Academy. Two bankrupts granted (ftsrjiarge fn j Supreme Court to-day, and an order of bankruptcy made. Twenty-two model yachts competin™ in harbour race to-morrow for Sir Krnest Davis' Oip. Quartermaiiter-general in Xew Zealand Military Forces appointed aide-de-camp to Governor-General. I Two men on sustenance sent to j»rt«on i : today for making- false declarations i ■ regarding their earnings. I 1 Director of pharmacy lo J ' iidminister industrial plan formulated t by Bureau of Industry. : Rettirned SolclierK , Association has ; decided to hold future Anzac Day ser- ' I vices at Cenotaph in morning. 'j Many bequests to Anglican Wrnrcn » [ contained in will of elderly spinster j who <lied at Kpsom last week. I Remits dealing with pensions few «*- soldiers ]>assed by annual meeting of , Returned Soldiers' Association. ■j Immediate relief to begranted victims ■of Hawke's Bay floods, according to I statement by Minister of Public Work-. I Parting in England IS years ago. two 'brothers met again for first tim«» In j .Auckland this morning aboard City of Yokohama. Young man admitted to probation for i obtaining £7 1(1/ by falsely renresenti ing that ho was the owner of a car I which he sold. Irrigation works, highway and aerodrome instruction to be |. studied by Public Works chief engineer, j who left for Australia to-day by 'Wanganella. Sales on the Auckland Slock F.xchaniro. to-day were:—Bank of New Zealand. ! £-2 3/9: British Tobacco. £2 S/rt: F.le<-tro-lytif Zinc f prof. i. £2 li/; Taranaki Oil, 7/!>: Mount Morgan. t>/2: Stock. November. 103K-.V2. '3i per' cent. £103 7/fi: Bank. Hi/41: New Zealand Rrewories. £2 4/3: Broken Hill Proprietary. £3 0/2; New Zealand Re-fri-erating (eon.). S/3: Woolworths (Sydney). £1 2/4; Wool worths (Sydiipyi. rights. S/3: Stock. l.*i/2/43-40. £102; Sto<k. September. 1939-43. £100 2/ii.