NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 29, 18 February 1937, Page 4

NEWS BREVITIES

Wool for Boston In \1, 28,822 Bales of Australian wool arrived at Boston aboard the Taronga. It is valued by ihe Customs at 3,250,000 doj%Tr« and "the diities have been fixed at la725,000 dOllars. Eeeeht heavy wool imports ha.d made a difficult task for shippmg agents to find a placa to put the mammoth shipment. 2000 Natives Drowned It is estimated that 2000 Mo2ambique natives were drowned , through the Incomati and Umbedtili rivers bursting tb,eir banks as the result of a five days' deluge, wbicb isolated Eourenco Marques. 'The .damage is set down at £1,000,000. Aeroplan&s #ad radio give ihe only details of the disaster. Indian Elections An analysis of the fesults of the general elections to date shows that Congress candidates haVe 371 seats, and Constitutionalists 642 with 70 seats not yet declared oiit * of a total of 1083. There are still a few elected waverers, Who may declare for Congress. Germany's Debts Negotiations for a new German agreement to pay British creditors have tempofarily broken down. Britain. demanded the capital repayment of 10 per bent. of the sum owed British bank's, amounting to only £4,000,000 sterling. Germany contends this is unfair to other ereditOr countries and declines to admit it has sufficient funds available. U.S. Farmers Mostly Tenants In a massage to thb United States Congress transmitting a repoi't of the speeial committee oh farm tenancy, President Boosevelf said that less than' half Of the nation 's farmers own the farms they were operating. About 40,000 farmers were added during the year to the tenant class and prompt action was necessary to eorreet thia evil. "When fully half the iarm population no longer feels secure and when millions of the people have lost theix roots in the soil, action to provido security is imperative," he declared, No Gipsies at tho Derby % The picturesque gipsies will probablv be banned from Epsom Downs at thia year's Derby,