TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 305, 27 December 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 8.15 p.m. Sunset, 7.42; sunrise to-morrow, 5.1. Early Auckland settler dies at age of S9 vears.

Second day of Christmas bowling tournament.

Sharp fall in tomato prices on wholesale markets.

Country week cricket tourney leaders meet at Domain to-day.

Sandringham resident drowned at OiT.wa in rescue attempt.

Christmas dinner fully celebrated by the fighting services in Britain.

Title-holder well down in Auckland Christmas bowling tournament.

Men of first squadron of Royal Australian Air Force reach England.

Strawberries down to lowest value this season; retailing at 1/6 a chip.

Wellington whisky and gin prices up, but Auckland is not affected, yet.

Xo surprises in second day of Auckland handicap lawn tennis tournament.

Xo play in Christchurch yesterday in Canteibury-Otago Plunket Shield game. Vegetables cheaper on city markets to-day, particularly carrots and potatoes. Second day of Auckland Lawn Tennis Association's annual handicap tournament. Torrential rain in Canterbury causes one main highwav to be closed for traffic. • Only eight rinks survive fourth round of Christmas bowling tournament without loss. Wool appraised in the past month, throughout Xew Zealand valued at about £3,000,000. ■

Special appraisal of wool begun in Auckland to-day; offering of about 20,000 bales. •

Man and wife seriously hurt when struck by motor car while catching tram in Kemuera.

Two steamers, one Dutch and one Turkish, founded in etorni on Black Sea; ■both crews, totalling 34 men, lost. British steamer sunk without warning by U-boat, three hours after leaving port on Christinas morning; 14 missing. Ra.n causes abandonment of Plunket Shield match, leaving Wellington to take first innings points from Auckland. Australian colliery proprietors decide to reeiet to utmost any attempts by mining unions to force "further concession* by strikes.

Demand for higher pay and fortnight's annual holiday with pay included in log of claims served on employers by Australian Waterside Workers' Federation.

Four charred bodice recovered from debris of 'plane which crashed near Mogador, Morocco, after inaugurating new Italian air mail services to South Africa.

Miner from Whangarei, caught betting in the Derby enclosure at Ellerslie yesterday, wae fined £50 in Police Court to-day for carrying on the business of a bookmaker.

Soldier who said hie car capsized when he tried to avoid running over a cat and wlu- denied being in charge o! a motor car while in a state of intoxication, acquitted in Police Court thie morning.

For being in a etate of intoxication while in charge of a motor car in Birkenhead 011 December 22* an apprentice was to-daj fined £30 and disquali lied from driving for 18 months. The S.M. told him he had had a narrow escape from prison.

As sequel to an assault made on a Chinese at Panmure yesterday, a young Maori labourer was remanded this morning in the Police Court oii charges of assault causing actual bodily harm, and breaking and entering and theft of a bottle of stout.