TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 226, 24 September 1929, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

» i —■ Aorangi sailed for Vancouver. Maheno arrived from Sydney. British coalminers liours to be reduced. Ponsonby house damaged by fire last evening. The Aorangi took 13,000 boxes of butter to Vancouver. H.M.s. Diomede to sail next Tuesday for England. Increased prices in London for Dominion butter. North Shore destructor to be kept under strict surveillance. Australian-bound steamer with coal cargo abandoned on fire. Onehunga Borough Council support flat rate on trams proposal. New system of scoring points adopted by Wellington Cricket Association. Stated that warships Dunedin and Diomede are not to be replaced. Sir George Fowlds stated at Hamilton that ideals of rotary were working miracles. Small chance of any resumption of New South Wales coal dispute negotiations. ■ Both football matches yesterday between law and insurance teams resulted in draws. Extraordinary send-off given first detachment of British troops to leave the Rhine. London Stock Exchange showed slight recovery from nervousness caused by Hatry sensation. Westport watersiders refused to coal steamer Hinemoa which left Auckland with non-union crew. Human projectile, a German, injured by being wedged in cannon at Boston, succumbed to wounds. Members of Chamber of Commerce were passengers on train • which ran on Westfield deviation to-day. German planes carry out successful tests with fog-producing apparatus; thick screen laid in short time. Young woman found dead this morning in bathroom of house at Point Chevalier with gas turned on. Labour party in Federal campaign promises if returned to establish Com-monwealth-owned shipping line. Chinese allege Russian threat to seize control of Manchurian railway if settlement is not reached in twenty days. Necessity of availability of justices of the peace for emergency cases stressed by deputation to PostmasterGeneral.

Auckland picture theatre exhibitors not concerned about British films regulations but indignant that they should be dictated to regarding pictures shown. Sales on 'Change to-day were:—Auckland Harbour Board deb., 5-£ (1949) (2), £101/10/0; National Bank of N.Z., (£6/17/0)-; Huddart-Parker (£2/4/(5); Auckland Harbour Boad Loan, 5J (1939), £99/10/0; Bank of N.Z., D. Mort., £1/8/9; Pukemiro, £3/17/0; and £3/17/0; Devonport Ferry, £1/2/0; N.Z. Breweries, £4/10/0; National Insurance, IG/8. New Zealand holds no better bargains than are now being cleared at Empire Furriers—coats, foxes and stoles at less, than half-price.—Address, opposite Town, Hall.—(Ad.) Our sale still on.—Coats and fox chokers at given away prices.—ArcticFurs, Ltd., 26, Karangahape Road.—(Ad.) Smart, dependable and ridiculously low-priced furs and coats are daily attracting hundreds to Empire Furriers' great clearance, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.) Furs! Furs!— Fox furs, the finest selection in town, and must be sold, Arctic Furs, Ltd., 20, K'hape Rd.—(Ad.) Specials for to-morrow: 35 Russian foxes, all shades, usually llgns, to-mor-row's price from 3gns at Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.) Fur coats of every description. Musquash, Peschaniki, Marmots and others, and they all must go.—Arctic Furs. Ltd., 26, Karangahape Road.—(Ad.)