TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, midnight'. Sunset, 4.41; sunrise to-morrow, 7.3. Floods inundate 2000 square miles of China.

Swanson school celebrates golden jubilee. De Valera party leading in Eire general election.

Two visiting hockey teams continue winning way. Huntly man has narrow escape from blazing house. Twenty drowned in train wreck in Montana, U.S.A. Wanganella due on Wednesday morning from Sydney. Port Jackson sails for London on Wednesday niglit. Win and loss for Auckland Rugby representative teams.

Single man burnt to death in disastrous Waihi- hotel fire.

.Maori footballer fatally injured in Rugby match at Hulls. Aurora Australis again seen in Auckland on Saturday night.

Two attempts on Hitler’s life reported made in Vienna.

Newmarket’s new police station to be opened early next mouth.

Touring New Zealand League team outclassed bj- Queensland. Thousands, honour memory of Sir James Carroll at Wairoa ceremonies. U.S. Secretary of State optimistic regarding trade agreement with Britain. -

Plans for new police station at Ellerslie completed. Work to take four months.

M eirbank will arrive at 6 p.m. to-dav from Nauru with 6500 tons of phosphate. Fifty yeans’ progress celebrated at jubilee dinner of Auckland Savage Club. .Demonstration in London against Japan's bombing of Canton; boycott urged. Large attendance at thanksgiving ser,vice on occasion of English Bible anniversary. Naval petty officer in Police Court to-day for theft of cycle at Trentham at Easter time. Cabinet has approved grant for additional accommodation at the Auckland Training College. Only temporary teachers to lie appointed to Orakei school pending growth of roll numbers.

Latest unemployment return shows reduction of 12,605 in compirison with corresponding figure last year.

Hazards of faulty electric installations commented upon by general-manager of Auckland J-.lcctric Power Board. Amusing Court interlude to-day during which counsel referred to the'European dictators Mussolini and Hitler. Two young men sentenced to terms of nine and twelve months’ hard labour tc.-day for theft and damage to slot telephone boxes. Citizens’ Association endeavouring to avoid City Council by-election by negotiation with Labour Representation Committee. but an independent candidate, who polled 5(19 votes in the Mayoralty contest asserts that nothing will stop him from Sales on ’Change to-dav were: National Bank (2), £2 15/;' Bank of New South Wales, £3l 10/; Devonport Ferry, £1 0/3; Australian Glass, £4 12/6; Colonial Sugar, £46 15/; Taranaki Oil, 12/9, 12/2; Stock, 15/6/52-55, 4 per cent, £102; Stock. Marell, 1939-43, 31 per cent. £lOO 2/(1;. Farmers Auctioneering (B pref.), £1 ]/; Allsop Steel (Aust.). 6/9; Broken Hill (P.), £2 15/6; Farmers’ ..Trading, £1 1/; Morts Dock, 10/3; "Wilsons Cement, 16/4.