TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 137, 13 June 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 3.1 p.m. Sunset, 4.41 p.m.: sunrise to-morrow-. 7 a.m. Over £1300 collected in cancer research appeal. Epsom resident celebrates ninety-ninth birthday. Port Dunedin due from Liverpool at 4 p.m. to-day. Four injured in Palmerston North crossing smwli. Stanley Woods win* Manx junior mot or cycle race. \V. Cop-on head* English cricket bowling averages. American Press warmly evaluate* visit of King and Queen. Recruits in the National Military Reserve now total 620. King and Queen return to Canada from United States. I Maotsuycker will leave for Wellington i at noon to-morrow. j Te Ktiiti borough engineer appointed to New Lynn position. ' Keen demand for poultry results in j higher wholesale prices. | Hitler orders special four-engined I 'plane for own private u<se. I Hammond beat* (iiinblett in race for j first 1000 runs of season. | Passengers shaken, but unhurt, in capsize of taxi in Grey Lynn. Officers elected at half-yearly meeting of Painters' Union last evening. Commission to o]>en twenty-sixth Par liament on June 27 announced. increased offering of apple? and pearion city markets: price* easier. Imperial Airways flying boat C>iiturian sinks on Hooghly River. Concentration of German tioops on Slovak-Polish frontier confirmed. Green vegetables cheaper at City 1 Markets owing to heavy supplies. Tanker New Zealand arrived from the Persian Gulf this morning with petrol.

Danzig secret police holding Polish Customs official 1 on charge of espionage.

Harvey and McAvoy to fight for world cruiser-weight title at White Citv.

Son gives evidence that van driver killed in Glen Eden fatality was cautions driver. Bradford woollen mills busy, with recent advances of tops price* maintained. Nearly four thousand names on Centennial roll of honour compiled in Auckland. Hospital Board astonished at difficulty of questions in examination for firstyear nurses. Matua has been delayed by heavy I weather and will not arrive from Suva i till midnight. Niagara arrived from Sydney at 10 p.m. yesterday and will sail for VanI couver at midnight. I Dalmatian has hand blown off at Ninety-Mile Beach while trying to frighten shark with gelignite. London Stock Exchange described as | lifeless, with an easier trend due to j uncertain international outlook. I Resolution passed hy 700 women at I Te Awamutu opposing State maternity 'scheme; B/M.A. proposals favoured. Appeal of librarian in the "Decameron" ease allowed by Mr. Justice Blair, and > Magistrate's Court conviction quashed. Parliament to be formally opened by ' commission on June 27: ceremonial opening by Governor-General. June 28. For using hi* shop in Pitt Street as a common gaming house, a young man was fined £25 in Police Court to-day. Difficulty experienced with start of sheep-farm in? Royal Commission owing to lack of judges for chairmanship. Denying the charge, two seafaring I' men were each fined £-5 for attempting to steal 2/ from an intoxicated man last Sat urdav.

Pope gives blessing to :>2OO Spanish soldiers during audience. de-cribin;.' them as defenders of the faith and upholders of civilisation. When twenty-sixth Xevv Zealand Parliament opens on June 27 one of first duties of House of Representatives will be to elect a Speaker. Decision to appeal to national executive against expulsion of prominent, member reached by Epsom branch of the Labour party last night. Sales on : Change to-day were: — j National Insurance. 16/11; Dominion | Breweries. £1 13/« (2): A.C.1., £1 18/9: British Tobacco. £2 11/t?: Broken Hill Proprietary. £■> 7/6; Colonial Sugar. £4S 15/; Consolidated Brick, 0/7 (2); G. •T. Coles. £3 IS/0. rights. £2 12/: Woolworths Prop., rights. 2/2: 1.C.1.. pref.. £1 of; Woohvorths (Sydney!, £1 4/; Stock, 15/2/43-46. 4 per cent. £9.3 5/: City of Auckland. 1/1/44-58, 4! per I cent. £101. I Bat Week! Ratopax kills the rat— I saves the dop—saves the cat.' — (Ad.)