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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 304, 26 December 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water ta-dav, 7.25 p.m. Sunset, 7.42; sunrise to-morrow, 5.T. Men at Narrow Ncck enjoy a merry Christmas. Little activity in shipping over holiday week-end. Ten now believed dead in tragic Queensland hotel blaze. Fortunes fluctuate in Auckland-Wel-lington Plnnket Shield game. Escaped prisoner's liberty ends after chase by constable and milkman. Nearly 100 players taking part ia Country Week cricket at Domain. Air raid sirens drown Christmas bells as Russians bombed Helsinki vesterdav. Notable English jteer to represent British Government at Dominion Centennial. Wellington bowler Pritchard captured wickets of most of Auckland's star batsmen. "Nothing to report."' says French \\ Front communique on Christmas Daj r . (Milium shipping loss last week exceeds total of British and neutral losses combined. Christmas broadcast to Empira emphasises that Allies' sacrifice is for freedom of spirit and the cause of Christian! civilisation. Mjtor cycle collision in Hamilton causes death of two young men; nurse critically injured. Port YVaikato arrived from Lyttelton with cargo and berths at Northern wharf to discharge cargo. Two young men killed on Howick highway as result of collision between motor cycle and car. New Zealand mission to London, accompanied by commander of Special Force, returns to Dominion. St. Hilda bather drowned in heavy surf, while second victim lost life at beach near Palmerston North. Union Company's steamer Kiwitea reached here early this morninng from West-port and proceeds to Chelsea. New Zealand Rugby League international scores 63 not out, and 60, on first day of Country Week cricket. Stalin wishes the Finnish people "an early and complete victory over their oppressors in the Mannerheim-Tanner g»ng-" Fire destroys Waipukurau Jockey Club totalisator, necessitating lastminute change to Hastings course for holiday meeting. Germans will clearly get and maintain the position in the world that is due to them, says new Japanese Ambassador to Berlin. "I see every reason for the friendship of the peoples of Germany and Russia to be firm and lasting," says Stalin in message to von Ribbentrop." ,