TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 23, 28 January 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 12.34 p.m. Anniversary Day holiday on Monday. Sunset, 7.37; sunrise to-morrow, Small boy rescued from drifting pgrfi at Ostend. D Norfolk by-election won by Liberal Nationalist. Loyalists in Madrid deny that war if nearing end. Many attractions arranged for Anniversary week-end. Federal steamer Kent will arrive from Liverpool late to-night. Hitler sends congratulations to Franco on victory in Barcelona. All-day cricket series in A.C.A. main competitions on Monday. Old ewes without teeth sell iii Gisborne at under a shilling a head. Lord Bledisloe sends £100 towards Wellington Cathedral fund. Annual race for the Lipton Cup sailed this afternoon in light weather. Change in Otago cricket captaincy for final Plunket Shield series. Beatus due on Monday from Texas, with sulphur and general* cargo. Australian and New Zealand soldiers praised by leading British doctor. Fijian family found adrift on bamboo raft after six days at sea; all well. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek gives reasons for faith in China's ultimate victory. Man severely burned by live wire at North Auckland power sub-station. Eerie spectacle on YVaikato farm when whirlwind lifts flames from scrub fires. Amazing appeal for peace issued by 7eading men in all walks of liffc in Britain. Number of German suggestion® to Poland believed to have been coldshouldered. Prices easier at Feilding stock sale; heavy draft of cattle from Gisborne sell at low rates. Competition less keen at London wool sales and bids frequently fail to reach high reserves. New Zealand's 1938 mixed doubles champions beaten at Stanley Street tennis tourney. Strong reply by chairman of Auckland Hospital Board to criticism of new hospital proposals. Shortage of maize reported from Oisborne, and Government may permit imports from Java. Continued drift of capital from London; European selling causes Stock Exchange prices to fall. Wanganella left Sydney last evening for Auckland with 333 passengers. She | will arrive on Tuesday morning.

Outspoken statement bv chairman of Auckland Hospital Board regarding condition of two wards at the hospital.

Three young men remanded in Police Court on total of 12 charges arising out of disturbance in Albert Street last night. " ■

Auckland Hospital Board determined not to expose nurses to further risks of infection owing to generally bad conditions in two wards.

Sales on 'Change to-day were: Bank of Xew Zealand, £1 18/6; South British, £2 4/6; Woohvorths (Sydney),

£1 1/11; New Zealand Insurance, £2 14/9.

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