TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Western Springs Speedway To-night. See Display Page 12.— (Ad.) High water to-day, 4.30 p.m. Sunset, 7.41; sunrise to-morrow, 4.59. Forty-eight names in fifteenth RAJ. casualty list. Seven Germans arrested in Auckland and interned. After to-day no postal delivery untii next Wednesday. Holiday weather prospects good; bi' crowds travelling. Great score by South Australi; against Queensland. Thrilling mock attack on harbou objectives last night. Auckland wins toss in Plunket Shield match in Wellington. Record railway traffic figures reported as result of Christmas rush. German 'planes high over Firth of Forth chasecl olf by fighting 'planes. Xine keel yachts started last evening on 150-mile raee to Whangiroa. Ocean race to Tauranga started this afternoon in light south-westerlr wind. Possible split in Soviet High Council liinte<l l>v American Press correspondent. Successful candidates announced in Trinity College of Music examinations. Australia to launch company with capital of £1,000,000 to build motor cars. Better understanding between America and Japan indicated as result of Tokyo talks. R.A.F. mahcine crashes into Northumberland church; two flyers killed, one injured. Hundreds of aircraft ordered by Australia as .part of defence expansion scheme. . Bridge over River Seine, in France, collapses; two known dead and 13 missing. Mariposa sailed for Sydney shortly after noon to-day with 190 passengers from Auckland. Big exodus of yachts and motor boats yesterday afternoon and evening, bound for holiday cruises. Heavy day for Auckland postmen, who started work at 5 a.m. and will not finish till 8 p.m. Brabin Cup XI., on eve of departure for South Island, plays provincial team at Eden Park to-day. Speaker of House pays tribute to friend who has lost position of Parliamentary Under-Secretary. Second Auckland wool appraisal to be held next week; date brought forward because additional shipping space available. Tauranga regatta to be held off The Strand, Tauranga, on Boxing Day; 55 rowing crews, yachts and motor boats competing. Cloth belts may replace traditional Sam Browne belts for officers; troops of Special Force not permitted to carry swagger canes. Maori petition to the Privy Council has been prepared requesting Royal Commission on alleged breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. German aerial attacks on unarmed fishing boats presumed by high officials to constitute an attempt to answer defeat of Graf Spee. Authorities state that there is no possible excuse for Nazi airmen to confuse innocent trawlers with mine as minesweepers fly White Ensign.

British trawler, carrying survivors of sunken Danish ship, bombed and sunk by German aircraft in North Sea; ai; aboard rescued after painful ordeal in lifeboat in rough sea.