TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 50, 28 February 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 11-40 p.m. Sunset, 7.4; sunrise to-morrow:, 6.4. Five more battleships being built by Britain. Main Trunk rail traffic now ncaring normal. ! Mariposa arriving from Sydney on Monday. » American envoy to leave Rome lor Berlin to see Hitler. Highways to Taumarunui and >>ew Plvmouth* still dosed. Fighting services appeal successfully launched in Auckland. Hamilton swimmers prominent at Newmarket last night. Most intense air activity eince outbreak of war reported. Kartigi due in port on Friday from Xapier, last port of calL R.A.F. fighter patrols shoot down two Heiukels off British coast.

Shipping losses last week well below average since war started. Churchill says half U-boat fleet destroyed by end of last year. First Aucklander to drive to Taumirnniii after floods has arduous trip.

Police superintendent in Wellington to retire after 43 years' service. Another double win by Miss D. Dunford at Newmarket Olympic Pool.

Miss M. Leydon reappears in swimming and scores a popular victory.

Port Whangarei to sail for East Coast jwrts this evening on Margaret W.'s run.

Finns admit abandonment of Bjorko Island fortress; garrison short of supplies.

R.A.F. 'planes over Berlin for third time since war started; all return safely.

Finnish barque Peoang due in port this evening with cargo of Seychelles guano.

British battleship Barham struck Dy torpedo last December; First Lord's revelation.

Finns evacuating more towns near Wiipuri; admit abandonment of Bjorko Island fortress.

Heavy casualties inflicted on Russians, and attacks repulsed, according to Finnish communique.

More epic reconnaissance flights over Germany completed successfully- by R.A.F. machines.

Incendiarism suspected after third outbreak of fire in a week in Christchurch plantation.

Young man remanded by magistrate on charge of being unlawfully on enclosed premises in Park Avenue.

Air Force machines rush supplies to isolated Taranaki settlers, dropping bread and blankets by parachute. Coloured searchlights used by Germans described as "very pretty" 'by R.A.F. reconnaissance 'plane pilots. Army teams to appear- in senior grades of four codes this season, provision being made for large supplies of equipment. Scenes of desolation in northern and eastern Taranaki; formidabje obstacles face gangs clearing railway lines and roads.

Verdict of accidental death returned by coroner to-day at inquest concerning death of elderly man knocked down by taxicab in January. Forty German ■ ships, reported to be accompanied by submarines, assembled between Petsamo and Murmansk, according to Finnish message. For his second offence of being intoxicated in charge of a motor car, labourer sentenced to 10 days , imprisonment and his license cancelled for three years.

Sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange to-day were:—Commercial Bank (3), 16/6; National Insurance, 19/; South British, £2 9/6; Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering ( €5 paid), £3 17/6; Dun. lop Perdriau. £1 1/9; Woolworth Properties, £1 6/; Woolworth Holdings (S. Africa), 16/; Mount Lyell, £1 15/9; Bank of New Zealand, £2 1/3; Auckland Gas, 17/; Auckland Gas (con.) 11/9; B.H.P. (3), £2 13/; Taranaki Oil, 6/10.