TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 200, 25 August 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 3.19 p.m. Sunset, 5.24: sunrise to-morrow. 6.21. French mobilisation being hurried ahead. Salvation Army elects new General by big majority. Labourer sent to prison for issuing a valueless cheque. Bromwich beaten by Yugoslav in Davis Cup tennis. Otago versus Auckland Rugby match at Eden Park to-morrow. Motor car did not stop after collision with another vehicle last evening. Cambridge due to-morrow morning from Liverpool with general cargo. Twenty-eight more divorce decrees granted in Supreme Court to-day. Pope broadcasts appeal to Governments, rulers ;>nd peoples for ]>eaee. Support for jrroposid National Recreation Week given in Xo>v Plymouth. Wnimarama due to-morrow morning from Wanganui to complete Home loading. President Roosevelt makes peace ap[teal, directed through the King of Italy. Tampa will complete repairs on Saturday and leave on Sunday for Xorfolk, Virginia. Thieves entered a city store last night and stole £7 worth of stock and !>/ in pennies. Arawa completes discharge of London cargo and sails for Port Chalmers to beirin loading. i Local bodies decide to favour a restriction of street appeal days in Auckland to six for this year. Britain -esolved to employ all the forces at her command if the need arisen, says Prime Minister. Over 0000 Japanese troops threaten Shanghai; British colony in Hongkong on virtual war footing. Former Xew Zealand amateur billiards champion beaten in tourney at present being held in Auckland. Risk in the modern picture theatre not of tire, but rather of panic, says chief inspector of fire brigades. Xeed for Waitemata Harbour bridge reiterated at public meeting of Takapuna residents last night. First determined Xazi move to oust Poles from Danzig reported; Herr Foerster declared President. Entry of German troops into Poland reported; Xazi sources claim Polish army no longer under Warsaw's control. Maunganui will arrive early on Monday morning from Sydney and will sail at 5 p.m. on Tuesday on her return. City importers virtually suspend business until their position under Reserve Bank's allocation of overseas funds is defined.. Amendments to plan submitted £y Government Housing Department for lay-out of eastern area of Orakei garden suburb proposed by City Council. ~ Appearance of Orakei village a disgrace to the landscape, says the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, at City 'Council meeting; Government urged r to deal fairly with matter. Proposals to conduct motor car and motor cycle road races over a Tainaki circuit next January described in *urat meeting "®f-City Council last •evening. Waterside worker admitted to six montlis' probation in Police Court today for theft of a towel valued at 2/ from the Mariposa; Adverse recommendation made bv the Parliamentary Local Bills Committee on Auckland Transport Board's bill, which would have exempted board from payment of rates on tram tracks. Suggestion that any player thought to be suffering from concussion in football game should be sent off field made by medical witness at inquest into death of young footballer. Sales on Change this day were: Bank of Xew South Wales, *£30 10/; X.Z Insurance. £2 11/9; South British Insurance, £2 2/3; A.C.1., rights, 6/ ; Hume Pipe, £1; Wilson's Cement, 17/; A.C.1., £1 16/6; Colonial Sugar, £48 10/; Elec trolytic Zinc, pref., £2 16/6; Farmers' Trading, B pref. (odd lot), 19/; Woolworth, Xew Zealand (odd lot), 17/; Woolworths, Sydney, £1 4/6; Woolworth, Sydney, (2),*£l 4/3; B.H.P .£3 5/3; 8.H.P., £3 4/6; Stock, 15/3/40-43, 4 per cent, £99 10/. •