TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 10.16 p.m. Second Auckland wool sale to-day. Sunset. 7.39; sunrise to-morrow. 5.27. Keports of unrest in Austria denied in Berlin. Niagara sailed at 1.30 p.m. to-day for Vancouver. Matua leaves at 10 p.m. to-day for Wellington. Hurricane weather experienced in Pacific x>y Matua. Canterbury won the fifth race for Sanders Cup to-day. Spanish Loyalists make last appeal to France for assistance. Anhalt will arrive to-morrow afternoon from Xew Orleans. Cyclonic storm at Fiji does minor damage during week-end. Karl Beattv, son of late Admiral of Fleet, arrives in Auckland. Mount Eden swimming carnival tonight at Bellevue Road baths. Wellington gains second win in fourth race of Sanders Cup contest. England beats South Africa by an innings in third cricket Tost. Two men gaoled for theft of clothes belonging t» Salvation Army. Seven drowned -when St. Ivee lifeboat is overwhelmed by enormous sea. Brilliant company attends wedding of youngester daughter of King of Italy. Auckland delegation to import conference leaves for Wellington to-day. Singles events in Auckland lawn tennis championships started to-day. Lack of entries results in abandonment of Auckland-Sydney ocean yacht race. Wellington and Canterbury have two wins and Auckland one in Sanders Cup contest. Italian Minister's visi£ to Balkans wi|>es out last vestige of EVencfa influence. Sixty people wage three-hour fight against dangerous scrub fire on Waiheke Island. Australian Postmaster-General eoneiders radio royalties in the Commonwealth are too heavy. Woman whom police describe as one of worst shoplifters in Auckland sent to gaol for 6ne month. Senior men's singles commence to-day at Stanley Street in Auckland provincial lawn tennis titles contest. British constable's appeal against sentence on charge of unjustifiably, killing an Arab at Jaffa is successful. Chamberlain, inaugurating National Service Campaign, says that the scheme is merely one of common prudence. Grew and passengers of Perth-bound Albany express have narrow escape when diverted rails are fouled in flooded area.' Woman companion charged with manslaughter following death of Australianborn journalist covering Monte Carlo motor rally. Sales on 'Change to-day were:— South British, £2 2/3; Auckland Gas, cont. (odd lot), 13/; British Tobacco (two), £2 9/9; Consolidated Brick and Pipe, 8/3; M.K. Manufacturers, 7/10}; N.Z. Refrig. (cont,), 7/8; Golden Sands, 1/1.