CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Victorian Elections * The Vietorian elections will bs held on October 2, . '■ Farr-Schmeling Bout OflF Tommy Farr has been released from a contract to fight .Schmeling in London this montli. . Fjight Around Britain The flying-boat Caledonia 'arrived at Southampton after a three-days roundBritain flight in which she travelled 8500 milos and passed over 66 seaside resorts. — BritisE Official Wireless, Wool Prices Firm At the Sydney wool saies prices remain firm under good competition from the Continent and Yorkshire. The number of bales offered yesterday was 12,720, of which 11,190 were sold. New Capital Issues New capital issues in the ' United Kingdom in August amounted to £7.141,184 against £20,305,454 in July and £6,194,413 in August, 1936. The amount of new capital issues for the ' eight months to date is £124.882,513.— British Offieial Wireless. Bantamweight Boxers Sixto Escobar, of Puerto Kica, the world bamtamweight champion, knocked out Eddie Eeed ih the eigflith round of a non-title ten-round bout at Harti'ord (Connecticut). The winner will meet Harry Jeffra (Americf) on September 26 for the- title. Serious Floods Ihe worst floods for nearly fifty years ars causing heavy damage in the lower •northern part of Sou-h Australia. Streets in many towns are covered by water and trains are held up by washaways. Huge areas of farmland are inundated. English Beauty Spot According to the London Daily Telegraph, a Thames beauty spot is likely to be saved as the result of negotiations, which are nearly completed, by which the beautiful reach of the Thames between Staines and Old Windsor will become national propexty . — British .Official Wireless. Disaster of Atheism Addressing 574 netvly-weds at Eome the Pope declared that atheism was the most terrible disaster that could happen in our time. It was a horrible naisfortune and shame that our epoch must be called an epoch of negation Qf God. . ' Shark Holes Boat A thirty-i'oot- ssiiark leaping from tho water in Carradale Bay, Kintyre, holed a fisliing boat, drowning three of the five occupants. The victims were Captain Angus Brown, his brother and his son aged 10. His daugliter, aged 12, was found clinging to the side of the , sinking boat hoioing lxer father's body, A local youth, the other occupant was also saved. ' ' Ranger Again The yaehts Ranger, Rainbow, En. deavour 1, Endeavour 11, and Yankee finished in that order in the fourth, of rue series of races at Marblehead (Mass.). The boats were halted after 12 miles due to & cairn. Record Colleetion The record sum of £44,301 was raised by the sale of poppies on behalf oi Earl Haig's fund on Armistice Day last Noveiuber^ says a British Official Wireless message. Avoid Political Bias A warning to masters of Masonic lodges to avoid action that could be interprcted as politically biased was sounded by the Earl of Harewood, a former Grand Master of England. Referring to requests received by provincial Grand Lodges for finaneial assistance to the Abyssinians, he pointed out that it was contrary to the prineiples of the lodge to support either side in. political disputes and added that in mauy countnes brethren were suffering discredit by the xnisguided activities of persons wrongfully calling themselves Freematsons. Standard Bases An interesting and important sehexne for an authoritative definition of textile terms and for the unification on a scientific basis of testing methods, is now under the eonsideration of about 200 trade organisations covering every branch of the textile industries in Britain. The draft scheme has been prepared by the Textile Institute in' consultation with the British Standards Institution and aims at equipping the textile industry with standards such as have already been established with success for the building, engineering and cJiemical industries. — ^British Official Wireless.