TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1938, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Stay at Brent's Hotel. Kotorna.—tA<W Thieves active at Hamilton. lli;rh water to-day, r>.o p.m. Only two large, vessel* in port. -Metal prk-es improve in I/ondon. Sunset, 4.41 p.m.; sunrise tomorrow, 7 a.m. C.S. Army 'plane cruftaee; eight killed. Government proposes short June session, Jury fails to agree in Hospital Board I*ll SO. Tanker South Africa left for Wellington this morning:. Connnoditif*, slightly higher at eloee of week ill London. .Minister of Transport review! road conditions for May. New Zealand Kugby League torn , of Australia begins to-day. English opening hatsmen make eent'.iiios at Trent JJiidge. Arrested man makes full confemion to kidnap murder in Florida. .Steamer bumps (Jreymouth bar, bmt no apparent damage done. Firming in prices for ewes on Smithfield market; lambs ntcndy. Knglnnd, ufter lucky start, ouikee 422 for four wickets in iirnt Test. Hammond makes auspicious etart an English captain by winning toss. Man in clerical gnrb charged mx (liristchurch with lolling fortunes. Stock Exchange relapses into dullness after yesterdayV ppell of activity. Xo further loss on London *haremarkets, but little lnwinoHs pa*t«ing. Awatea sailed fur Sydney at s>2o p.m. yesterday; due on Monday morning. Mariposii mailed for Sydney at 11 p.m. yeeterday; due about noon on Britain and U.S.A. negotiating for joint control of Pacific Viands for tir bases. Motor ship Tolten. under charter to Union Comjwny, left for Wellington this morning. Sustained interest in New Zealand oil share*; Taranakis easier yeeterday, but recovered to-day. (Ireat five-mile tunnel to be constructed through Ihe Rimtitaka. Range at a eo*t of £1,000,000. Mneteuycker nrrivee from the Eaet at 7 a.m. on Tuesday; to leave, for Wellington late on Tuesday night. Less employment for women in some oecupatione in Auckland compared with previous year, it is eta ted. Surrey, which left Auckland shortly after midnight yesterday, berthed at. Opua at 1 p.m. to-day io load for London. Sales on 'Change to-day were: Bank of New Zealand (cum. div.), £2 4/ft; Auckland fins, £1 0/6; Farmers' Trading, £1 1/; New Zealand Drug, £3 7/6: Taranaki Oil. 11/S, 12/3; Woolworths' Holdings, 10/1; Kandoe Cement (10/), 12/0; Cumberland Paper, £1 6/6. If it's furs—choose "Empire." fur?. Quality and value are unequalled at Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall. (Ad.)