CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 148, 10 July 1937, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES

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Divorce Bill The cohimittee stage of the Marriage Bill was completed in the House of Lords last night. The most important amendment seeks to eurtail from five to chree years the perioi after marriage, during which a divorce petition cahnot be sdught, hnd to aliow the courts discretionary powers within that period in cases where epecial hardship is ii>voivfed. — Offifeial "Wirfeless. Deadly Heat Wave Fifty persons are ueaa as a result of a heht wave from the Atlantic seUbOafd. The Middle West distilcts fexperienflCd a temjpef ature of 11 0 degr fees. Tiie extffeme huinidity is p'rodufeaiig hiueh suffering ih Nfew York. In thfe MissouriOhio Biver Valloy agricultural areas it is reportcd that the crope are saffcring from drought and harvest workous arp collapsiug iu tho liblds.— New York.

British-Japanesc Trade The Japgiiesfe ecoiioUiife ftiiSslon has opened conversatifens with British ..hpsinesH repffeseutdtiVfeS UUdfer the ehairmahsnl^~«i^Lord Barnby.. Members diseUssed of British Japanfese tfade.— LoUoSt^Air Travel Barred It is fepOitfed thut the tflattagfef 0f the Spflngboks ' t.eiim, Mf Pfefcy Day, lias deelined an offfef from New Slfealdiid iat the teain to tfavel by aei'dplaue from the South Island to tllfe North Islafid during tho NfeW Zealaud tour Air tfavel is baftfedi— Byduey. Chinese Protest A rninor clasli at daWU precedfed thfe withdrawal of the 8ino-Japaufese foi'ees on the opposite banks of the Yungtlng river. The Chittfese FfefCigu Office has protested to Tolcio in regard to Japan's proVocatiVe actxvities. Thfe japanese Ambassador is liastening to Nanking in an endeavour to arrange an amieabl^ settlement.-— Bfeking,