TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 192, 14 August 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day. 3.44 p.m. Sunset, 5.15; sunrise to-morrow. 6.36. Prices for silver unchanged in London to-day. Port Waikato due from Lyitelton on Saturday. VNaiana due from Southern ports on Thursday night. Kartigi arrives to-day at Auckland from Greymouth. Farm manager thrown by horse and killed at Taihape. Quotations on London Stock Exchange show upward tendency to-day. Business on Auckland Stock Exchange, quieter to-day: market still firm. Latest London quotations for tin reflect recent weakening tendency. Examiner in music, passenger in Mariposa, arrives to conduct examinations in New' Zealand Officers and n.c.o.'s of signal corps undergoing ten weeks' intensive training at Trentham. Ranks of Presbyterian ministers depleted owing to resignations for war and other reasons. Hauturu arrives at Onehunga tomorrow morning, and will load on Friday for Hokiar»ga. Nearly £190,000 in hand as accounts for sick and wounded appeal near completion in Auckland Two American ships bought by Australian company for trade between Canada and Australia. Delayed by minor mechanical trouble, California Clipper will now reach Auckland on Friday afternoon. Australian shipping man describes stagnation at San Francisco wharves owing to labour difficulties. Mariposa, which arrived from San Francisco this morning, leaves for Sydand Melbourne at 10 p.m. Noted American economist to studv taxation and local government in NewZealand; passenger in Mariposa. Chief of Australian General Staff, victim of air tragedy, was one of Commonwealth's most famous soldiers. Landing facilities for flying boats at Suva practicable, says New Zealand representative of Pan-American Airwavs, Film production in England being maintained at 100 per cent, states representative of a British film corporation who returned from a visit to England to-day. Possibility of Suva being included in Pan-American Airways San FranciscoAuckland route discussed bv PanAmerican Airways' New Zealand representative. Inquest concluded into deaths of two naval reservists who were missing from capsized yacht near Tiritiri in April and whose bodies have not been recovered General order of Court of Arbitration, in connection with wages increase of five per cent, to be considered by Auckland Transport Board at meeting next Monday. Ex-stoker'on H.M.S. Achilles who committed four thefts on the day he was discharged from the Navy given term of reformative detention by magistrate in Police Court to-day. Stated at inquest that Chinese fruiterer whose body was found in harbour near the western viaduct was on bail pending the hearing of a charge against him in Police Court. Evidence given that HelensviUe fisherman, fatally injured when struck by fire engine in Hobson Street, was not used to city traffic. Brigade was answering malicious false alarm at the time. Norwegian tanker Ole Jacob, damaged in collision near Wellington, to come to Auckland for repairs, which are expected to take from five to six weeks, and give employment to from SO to 100 men. Morning sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange were:—N.Z. Insurance, £2 18/6; Morts Dock, 16/3; Bank of N.Z., £2 0/3; South British Insurance, £2 6/6 - Auckland Gas (10/ pfd), 9/; N.Z. Breweries, £1 13/; stock, 31/5/54-58, 4 per cent, £104 17/6.