TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day. 10.4 p.m. Sunset. 7.2-S; sunrise to-morrow. 5.43. Spanish Government Ministers flee t-> France. * D'.ike of Kent cancels visit to Xortli Ireland. Prices of metals slightly firmer in London. Big prize money to be offered for Centennial golf tourney. Final day of Plunket Shield games at Auckland and Carisbrook. Refugees crossing from Spain to France at 6000 per hour. Chamberlain definitely pledges British military support to France. Amazing disclosures of bombing plot of I.R.A. in London Police Court. English airman lowers Clouston's record time fur flight to the Cape. Bound from London, via Panama, to Auckland. Rangitiki expected at 6 a.m. on Sunday. Bradford reports a hardening tendency for Merino tops, with cross-breds unchanged. Hawera resident who lias lived in NewZealand for S7 years, to celebrate 100 th birthday to-morrow. The Napier Star will now sail from Auckland for London, via Panama, to-morrow afternoon. A French motor ship, the Pierre L.D., bringing slag from Ghent, is due at Auckland to-morrow. Watersider acquitted in Supreme Court on charge of stealing case of gin from motor vessel Pakura. Swept from horse while attempting to ford flooded Waimamaku Stream, 10-vear-old Maori lad drowned. Claims for first award for taxi drivers since 1931 to be discussed in conciliation council in Wellington to-morrow. Able seaman on overseas vessel fined £4 in Police Court for hitting quartermaster on the head with a bottle. Xumber of scholars enrolled in Auckland secondary schools shows all-round increase compared with last year. Scottish societies in Auckland take steps to support suggested formation of kilted regiment in Xew Zealand. An auxiliary schooner yacht, with American* fishing party on board, is expected any time now from Samoa.Principal of Seddon Memorial Technical College comments on small number of enrolments for agriculture section. Woman faces alternative aaxult charges in Supreme Court to-day: accused of attacking boarder with breadknife. Army, naval and air forces, for first time in Xew Zealand, to combine in large-scale exercises of 24 hours, starting on Saturday. H.M.S. Achilles is expected to leave Portsmouth on February 21 for Xew Zealand. She is due here about the

first week in May. Chairman of Harbour Board explains reason for granting Wheat Committee storage accommodation on wharves for 11.000 tons of wheat. Plans for formation of national union of tramwaymen well advanced and first meeting of new organisation to be held in Wellington at Easter. The German training barque Kommodore Johnsen berthed at the King's wharf to sail on Thursday for South Australia, to load -wheat for Europe. Case concludes in the. Supreme Court to-day in which taxi-driver was charged with negligent driving, which allegedly caused the death of a woman in Great South Road. Move to have jt made a breach of the Health Act to use methylated spirits containing pyrodine for french polishing to conic before Furniture Trade Conference in Cliristchurch this month. Sentence of two weeks' imprisonment passed on a labourer in Police Court to-day for his fourth offence for being intoxicated in charge of a motor vehicle; he was disqualified from driving for two years. Uncle of man imprisoned for being intoxicated in charge of a ear charged to-day with aiding and assisting him in the commission of the offences of driving while intoxicated and without a license. Sales on 'Change to-day were: South British. £2 4/6, 2 4/7J; Goldsbrough, Mort (odd lot), £1 7/; Grand Junction, 3/4; Mount Morgan, 11/; Stoc-k, May, 39-52. 3A per cent, £99; Bank of New Zealand, £1 18/6; Woolwortns (N.Z.), 17/10, 17/8; Woolworths (Svdney), £1 3/6, £1 3/7; G. J. Coles, £3*lß/3.