TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 215, 10 September 1940, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Cheerio. Digger!" Say it to the "Eight o'clock." Hich water to-day 1.20 pjn. lin prices recede in London to-day. Sunset j.37, sunrise to-morrow 0J57. Puriri left Onehunga to-dav for Waikato Heads. \\ aip:ata leaves for Dunedin at noon tomorrow. British Empire wrestling title changes •hands again. Auckland ladies' provincial golf t-ournev begins to-day. Auckland doctor called up for service with the forces. Further raids on Britain by German Air Force on Monday. Pair sale for winter pears on City auction markets to-day. No changes in Auckiaud team for Wellington game on Saturday. Auckland legacy of £2000 to the Government for the War Fund. Port \\ uik:ito cleats to-morrow night for Wellington and southern ports. Waimarino and Waipahi both leave late to-night for potts in the South island. Keen market on the Auckland Stock ixchange to-<la.v; values move upward. Three Italian supply ships sunk by British submarines in .Mediterranean. Court martial tits at Papakura to-dav to hear joint charges against two gunners. R.A.F. attack Hamburg for three hours on Sunday night, dropping hundreds of bombs. Woman motorist admitted to hospital after motor crash in Mount Eden this morning. Auckland motor traders to ask Government to allow 1,000,000 pallor* of petrol each month. Inquest concluded into death of widower found asphyxiated in burning house at Xevnuarket. Conductor seriously injured when crushed between two trains at city depot this morning. Xumber of German "planes brought down over Britain on Saturday is now found to be 103. _ Gunner at Papakura Camp sentenced to 36 days' detention following court martial on three charges. Small quantities of peas and beans which appeared on City auction markets to-day realise good prices. Reported that French have rejected Japanese demands for transport of troops through Indo-China. Marseillaise now considered marching song of free Frenchmen, states president of Auckland French Club. _Westport in plight over loss of 35 miles ol electric cable arsea. intended for linking up of town with Denniston. Heroic part in Dunkirk" retreat plaved by- English regiment with which "<he Hauraki Regiment is affiliated. Heavy quantities of cabbage on local produce markets to-day sell at low rates; cauliflower maintains recent levels. All current import licenses for table crockery used up in Xew Zealand, flays British manufacturers' representativeVerdict of suicide by shooting returned at conclusion of inquest into death of man found dead on top of Mount; Hobson. * Further details of German raids on London during the week-end show that casualties were less than first thought in Saturday's attacks. Aircraftsman who was killed at New Plymouth last Friday as the result of an accident buried at O'Neill's Point Cemetery yesterday.

Despite bad weather conditions ILA.F. bombers rain blows on enemy and enemyoccupied coastal ports and other military targets in Germany on Sunday. Overflow annual meeting of Carpenters* Union expected in Trades Hall this evening and precaution has been taken of reserving Town Hall for meeting. Sleepy-eyed but stout-hearted Londoners return to work on Monday morning after nine and a half hours' raid, beginning Sonday night and ending Monday morning. Cablegrams received in Auckland hy representative of a number of crockery manufacturers of Stoke-on-Trent ask urgently for orders to keep the factories aping. TMorning sales on the Auckland Stock Exchange were: At the 10 a.m. call to-day —Renown Coal. 10/6; Auckland Gas (con.), 3/: Fanners' Trading, £1; LCJ. (pref.), £1 4/6; Xew Zealand Drug (rights), £1 5/3; Taranaki Oil Development. 3/3; Wilson's Cement, 19/6; Broken Hill Proprietary (2), £2 6/; Martha Mining (2), 7/6: Commonwealth Bonds, 1947, 4 per cent, £106 10/. Unlisted: Southern Cross Investment, 3/6; Bank of Xew Zealand, £2 2/6: Xew Zealand Insurance, £3 1/9; Taranaki Oil, 6/6.