TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 205, 31 August 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day. 8.12 p.m. iSti 11 110 work at Hunfly mines. Fijian Rugby team still undefeated. Sunset. 5.29; sunrise to-morrow, 6.13. Heavy hailstorm at Pahiatua yesterday. Gold in London quoted at £7 18/6 per ounce. Street appeal for combined orphanages to-morrow. Totangi oil bore now down 4779 feat and passing through hard shale. Short loans and bills market fairly steady at la.st week-end rise. Record catch of whales taken by Tory Channel station this season. Larger "handles" to be pulled at Wellington hotels from to-morrow. U.S. State Department decision to release German liner Bremen. Mr. Xasli to return from overseas-to-morrow; civic reception planned. " At this week's Colombo tea sale demand was active and prices firmer. Mariposa will arrive at 7 a.m. to-mor-row, t-ailing for Sydney at 10 p.m. Belief in Italy that coming Sunday will be zero hour of Kuropeau crisis. New menace in Kurope cieated by German troops pouring into Slovakia. Yesterday's turnover on Xew York Stock Exchange totalled 500.000 shares. London Stock Exchange in dilemma should evacuation of London be ordered. All motor cycle and car races in Germany cancelled as a means of caving fuel. Fourth request to civilians in Paris to evacuate issued by French Government. 1 Mystery of sj>ecially-chartered Geriman aeroplane arriving at Heston aerodrome. French Government to take over entire railway system for military purposes to-morrow. Poland calls up further 500.000 men following Xazi troop concentration on Slovakian border. Canberra Maru arrived this morning from Japan and leaves at 6 p.m. tomorrow for Wellington. Several new champions crowned at finals of Auckland provincial boxing tournament last night. Xew acquisitions to Maori, natural history and botanical collections, at Auckland War Memorial Museum. Expressed readiness of British Dominions to stand by Empire in crisis encourages public opinion in Britain. Royal tombs in Westminster Abbey protected with sand bags, valuable figures having been removed to safety. Labour organisation reported to be urging that flats and rooms be brought within the scope of the Fair Rents Act. Counties have made big efforts in direction of road safety, says president Xew Zealand Counties' Association. Automobile Association (Auckland) makes move to organise wide protest against recent imposition of petrol tax. Berlin Press derides British references to effect on German policy of Russia's 11011-ratification of the non-aggression pact. King's wharf power plant closing down to-day, will be brought into operation again later in year if necessary. Further steps towards widening of Great South Road outlined at last night's meeting of One Tree Hill Borough Council. Objections to valuations in Waiteniata county heard by Government Valuation Assessment Court, now sitting in Auckland. Sales on 'Change to-day were:—A.C.l, (rights), 7/; 8.H.P., £3 15/6; Dunlop Perdriau, £1 0/0; Reid Rubber, £1 4/; Woolworths (X.Z.), 17/. Huntly miners and company representatives confer with Minister of Minet* at to-dav regarding strike at Huntly collieries. Possibility that concentrations of Nazi troops in Slovakia will cause Poland to invoke terms of British and French guarantees denied in Warsaw.

"Minister gave us information we were not previously aware of," says leader of Auckland deputation which waited 011 acting-Prime Minister. Hon. P. 1" laser, 011 defence questions.

The biggest sale of new and secondhand books ever held in Auckland now* proceeding at Kealy's, 21, Shortland St. Moving out. All stock to be sacrificed.— (Ad.)