CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Suit for Divorce Tbe' Cuban wii'e df Count Cavadonga; th'e so'n"of ex-lCing Altonso of Spain, is reporled ' to ■ he * instituting ■ divorce pfo* ceedings.. . . . Square Riggers' Race - -The shores.at Newport were crow.ded to see the start -of> the race between the, square • riggers, ; Joseph Conrad and Seven Seas. ;The Joseph Conrad won the prize for the fastest timo from- the harbour. • , Recruiting Increase The- War Office anno'unces that hte recruiting figures for the Regular Army last week- were"Jthe -best for any wek during August since the year 1932. Th number of:' rcrcruits approved during the -week" was 655. Canton Island O AT.S. Leitji" has sailbd from Suva for* Canton Islan'd with two "wireless officers' ahoard. The ship ; also , carried huflding rnaterial .and wireless equip-: meiitifor the1 establishment , of a' sta-; tioii. " . . ' 1 - Border . Patrol , * " In - connectio'n with • the 'New SoutK Waleslegislation to'prev.ent the spread of irii'ailtile 1 paialysis -from Victbria, the entianoes io this State along 700 miles of border will have to * be superyised, ' and - more ' tlian 10O=-police will be employed on a day ■ and night wateh .which began yesterday. Ini Memory of . Marconi A periodtwo two minutes'- silence,- in momor-y pf the Marchese Marconi," was observed at the opening of the Wireless Exhibition at Olympia, Hammersmitb, yes'etrday. The attendance on the first day of the 10 days' exhibition was 18,093, and included.a large pro?portion of foreign buyers and other visitors from abroad. Curtailed Output Leading Japanese woollen manufac--tuferq havQ, deCided; dqe to accpmulaL ing stoqks. and sagging prices, .that it; • will , be . necessary ; to increase . the' voluntary cur'taiiment of output. wliich, at present -is- 2P per: cent.'to 30 per ' • cent,. '.• ••■ . . » • • . - Strike Settlement • -J-The- terius-of settlement-" of tbe Mel-' l.cutne gasworkers' strike were nccept-1' erl by the Gas Employees' -Uhion, aid the men left the West Melbourne and Sou.tb Melbourne works after a strike lasting IS.dnys. Tbe workers were to resume this morning, but it is nyb expeVted /that ^tliere will be festofatipii of the i'uJI pressure of gas ior uearly a "week. Tlie term's of settlement • iueliule a 3/- industry alJowance, - an aiinual' b'onus system and a basic wage of £3 1Q/-. The meu clainied a 6/- indu'stry allownuce