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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wool sale t vday. High water to-day, 10.35 p.m. Sunset. 7.19; sunrise to-morrow, 4.57. Two houses lost in lire at Te Puke. Four British ships Hit by shrapnel in Spain. Ollicial gold price reaches all-time high record. Pope suffers sudden heart attack during Mass. Kiliikilii School, on Arapuni Koad, destroyed l>y lire. Woman remanded in Police Court on shoplifting charge. Thieves used gelignite on a safe at Te Pa pa pa last night. Estonians throughout world observe national holiday to-day. Total of £284 collected in street appeal for surf life-saving clubs. Trojan Star arrived this morning from Opua to load for London. Kaipara arrived at nine o'clock last night from Montreal with general cargo. Two men lost in Australian bush since last week-end found alive by searchers. Auxiliary yacht Ronda arrived this morning from Suva after passage of 12 days. Progress of New Zealand's air defence programme reviewed by Minister of Defence. ('ornwo)l ("up trials held this afternoon: contest starts at Plimmerton on January 14. Port Townsville arrived yesterday afternoon from Gisborne for final loading for London. Four duly; holding yacht races on the Waitemata and two on the Manukau this afternoon. Arbitration Court gives interpretations of several points in waterside workers' award. Niagara will arrive from Sydney on Monday morning, sailing at 11 a.m. on Tuesday for Vancouver. Government party conducting systematic test of gold-bearing reef on West Coast of South Island. Dunedin woman, who falls to death from Sydney building, said to be most cheerful on voyage out. Conference of plasterers held in Auckland to-day for the purpose of discussing proposals, for a Dominion award. . Driver and fireman have remarkable j escape wlien locomotive topples over | bank on bush railway near Putaruru. j Widow, who was arrested last night, j remanded in Police Court to-day on ; charge of unlawful use of instrument; j bail refused. j Huge fire, causing 5.000,000 dollars' ! worth of damage to film colony, near j Hollywood, blazes while rest of United j States freezes.

Xew Zealand TChodes Scholars chosen yesterday are 19-vear-old Victoria College (Wellington) arts student and law student from Canterbury College. Sales on 'Change this morning were:— Bank of New South Wales. £30 5/; Dominion Breweries. £1 12'6; Consoli- ' dated Brick and Pipe. 7/9; Taranaki Oil«. 11/9; March. 39/43. 3A per cent. £98 2/0; stock. September, 39-43, 3J per cent, £97 17/6. Kelleway's Furnishfcig Drapers— caravan cushions and squabs, launch and 5 yacht cushions, re-make mattresses, also new. Yes! We make blinds; all kinds.— Newmarket. (Ad.)

Tlie best protection against moths is to store your furs with Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall clock. — (Ad.) Kelleway's Bargain Furnishings— beautiful lamp shades. 2/11 to IS/6: silk cushions. 3 11 to 14/6; D.B. cottajre weave bedspreads, 12/6. —Newmarket. (Ad.)