TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 24, 30 January 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Anniversary Day. Holiday ruined by rain. High water to-day, 2.S p.m. * All sports except races postponed. Sunset, 7.35; sunrise to-morrow, 5.34; Rain general throughout province. Chilian earthquake dead estimated at 30,000. Heavy arrivals of fertiliser at Auckland. Four bathers saved from drowning at Karekare. Accidents numerous over Anniversary week-end. » German Press devotes columns to fall of Barcelona. Furiri due to-morrow with large cargo of basic slag. Anniversary Regatta postponed till next Saturday. Three outright wins in Saturday's senior cricket. Mock air raid carried out at Sandringliam Palace. ! T. Gibson and T. Wood hit centuries in suburban cricket. Liverpool Irishmen arrested for ! possessing explosives. Onehunga cricketer scores fourth cen-' | turv in consecutivc innings. Spectacular stage-setting for Hitler's , opening of Reichstag to-day. ! Oronsay will arrive on Friday morning f from Brisbane with tourists.* • , Indian Moslems want representation at Palestine conference in London. Americans keen buyers of fine hog- ' get wool, at Cliristchurch sale to-day. Rainfall for January 3.31 in; only .30in fell for month until 3 p.m. yesterday. Orchardists fear that as result of rain brown rot will affect stone-fruit crops. Brutal bombing of Spanish Loyalist, refugees, death, toll exceeding first estimate. Fine wools, though easier, were better' than expected at Cliristchurch wool sale to-day. * Acute shortage of safety matches in Xew Zealand forecast by Wellington, importer. Holiday-maker caught in undertow and drowned at Maioro Beach, near Waiuku. - * Party on hulk on Saturday night see companion disappear after dinghy swamps. Orakei Maoris have decided to get legal advice in connection with their land troubles. • 2sew; car stripped of valuable parts after being abandoned; owner is a former constable. Campers at Western Springs do not mind the rain; eighty parties under, canvas last night. Two men arrested for alleged attempt to enter a city jewellery shop remanded till Thursday. Humidity low this month, but jumped to 92 per cent on Saturday, 97 per cent Sunday, and 100 per cent—saturation point—this morning. Government lighthouse tender, Matai, ■ experiences foggy weather on trip from- , northern lighthouses. ' dumber of small boats hauled up on city eastern beaches this morning" to . avoid rough seas. . . i Over 3in of rain fell in Auckland from \ 3 p.m. yesterday, (when drought.broke) ■ until 9 a.m. to-<lay. '■ Rain represents thousands of pounds to dairy farmers, as pastures J were baked.: . • ' 3 Kozau Maru arrived last evening from . Japan and berthed this morning at! b Prince's wharf. . t . Man whom police referred : to" as" a \ pest sent to prison for three months, . after being convicted. of drunkenness, , assault and obscene language. ' Federal steamer Kent arrived on 1 Saturday night from Liverpool and ; berthed yesterday at Queen's wharf.. Hotelkeepers in Auckland • sceptical ■ ; about outcome of Cliristchurch decision to curtail drastically counter-lunches. German boys from Kommodore Johnsen cause interest with German, songs while marching to social evening. Midnight chase through city streets follows constable's, discovery of attempt to rob jewellery shop in Albert Street. . Wanganella, due to-morrow morning from Sydney, advised, meeting an easterly gale and will not arrive" until Wednesday morning.