NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 December 1924, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

FOUR RECOUNTS. LONDON, Oct, 31. ■. So clctee . was the vote feeiWteh T. W. Stamford, Labour member for West Leeds in the last Parliament, and Oapt. A. F. Greriton, Conservative, in the thiee-cornerCd contest in that division that there were four recounts of the ballots before the question was definitely settled. / Stamford won out- by three votes, 13.057 against 13,05 L CAPITAL OF NORWAY TO BE • CALLED OSLO NEXT YEAR. \ SEATTLE, Nov. 8. Christiania, capital of Norway, after January 1, is to be called Oslo, the original name it bore hundreds of years ago, Thomas Kolderup, Norwegian consul here, declared, after receiving a cablegram. The change was ratified by the Norwegian Government on July 11. Oslo was founded in 1048 at the head of Kristiania Fjord. In 1024 the town was destroyed by fire, and King Christian IV. selected a new site to the west, naming it Christiania. It was, later called Kristiania. GREGORY’S HAND. PRAISE FROM LORD HARRIS. •' - . . LONDON, Nov. 25. Lord Harris, in the course of an interview on the result of the New South Wales match, takes an encouraging view of the forthcoming testis. Judging from all accounts of the wicket, he says, it was a most notable victory. Chapman was just the man for such an emergency. The British team had thus far suffered cruel! luck, with Woolley, Hearne, and Howell knocked out. Referring to- .Gregory’s fielding in the slips, Lord Harris added : “This great cricketer has the . most extraordinary prehensife left hand of any player I have ever knowh. I have seen him stand: with his left hand behind his back, and catch a ball thrown to him by a fieldsman without looking roiind.”