TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Hiirli water to-day. 10.20 p.m. Temporary respite in Danzig crisis.

Party leaders speak in Parliament. All-American Wimbledon singles final. Achilles leaves on Pacific cruise today. Devonport Borough Council by-election to-day. Sunset, 4.47 p.m.; sunrise to-morrow, 7.3 a.m. Auckland M.L.C. elected Chairman of Committees. Polish battery fires warning shot at German 'plane. Bulgarian Prime Minister on State visit to Berlin. Severe storms in Tasman; Awatea ba<ily buffeted. Roosevelt wine final victory on dollar devaluation bill. Chamberlain Park golf links opened to-day by Governor-General. British.Ambassador optimistic of outcome of Tokyo conversations. H.M.S. Loith due to return from her cruise to the Islands to-morrow. To-day to be last chance for Britons to leave Koochow and Wenchow. South Island League football team arrived in Auckland this morninjr. Crash into bridge near Wellsford results in death of Te Hana farmer. Liner Queen Elizabeth to make maiden voyage in April of next year. Dramatic struggle against inrushing water described by survivor of Thetie tragedy. Greatest mass migration in historysaid to be in progress from Tyrol to Germany. Maiinganui Railing this afternoon for three weeks' cruise to South Pacific— a full ship. British Prime Minister asked searching questions on delay in Moscownegotiations. Conference between Japan and Britain in Tokyo not expected to open till next week. Interesting case before Court concerning rebate of half rates on unoccupied dwellinghouses. Rex King, captain of South Island League team, comment* on playing conditions in England. Mariposa will arrive at 7 a.m. tomorrow from San Francisco; to sail at 10 p.m. for Sydney. Explanation of his retirement from Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board made by Mr. A. G. Lunn. Musick Memorial radio centre at Buckland's Beach expected to be functioning next month.

Monowai due on Monday mornin» from Sydney; to sail at 11 a.m. on Tuesday for Vancouver. Sussex, which arrived this morning from Liverpool, was buffeted in storm, but suffered little damage. Wellington's rival claims as terminal airport for overseas services criticised by Chamber of Commerce president. Young seaman who gave himself up to police early this morning admitted to probation on vagrancy charge. For assaulting a Maori woman in a house in Freeman's Bay, a labourer was to-day given a suspended sentence. Auckland would provide greater safety than southern port for overseas aircraft, says Chamber of Commerce president. • _ Chinese to observe three-minute silence in memory of fallen comrades to-morrow, on second anniversary of Japanese aggression. Objections to proposed "holidays with pay" bill voiced at Chamber of Commerce; claimed that legislation would be added burden on industry. City companies issue circulars offering to purchase sterling funds from individuals receiving cheques or dividend warrants from England. Following an argument in the city last nig'ht. a circus hand struck another man on the head with a beer bottle. To-day he was given probation. Eight tableaux and a finale will depict the development of New Zealand in "A Pageant of the Century," one of the main attractions at Centennial time. Sales on 'Change to-day were:— Bank of New Zealand, £1 18/9; South British, £2 1/3; Dominion Breweries, £1 14/3; K.D.V. Boxes (con.), 4/6; Stock, 15/3/40-43, 4 per cent, £98 10/. Still an excellent selection of Bostocks, Clarke's and Brit-Ban English shoes at Scott's, Newmarket.—(Ad.)