CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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1 Visit to Austria Ex-King Alfonso is staying with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at their Sehloss in Wasserleonburg, Ranger Again The Ranger, Yankee, Endeavour II, Rainbow and Endeavour I. finished in that order in the fifth of the series of yacht races at Marblehead Gift to Museum Lord Rothschild. bequeathed a collection of 2,000,000 butterflies, birds and moths valued at £250,000, ' to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. The Indian Durbar The political correspondent of the Morning Post says that an official announcement of the visit of the King and Queen to the Coronation Durbar in India is expected soon. Helen Keller in Dairen Helen Keller deaf and blind American educator, has -arrived in Dairen on her lecture tour of the Orient. She planned to go to Hsinking, Manchukuo, where she will be received by Emperor Kang-Teh. The Little Entente A conference of the Little Entente Powers ended at Bucharest on Thursday. Perfect unity- was indicated on all questions, including collaboration with the League of Nations, non-inter-vention in the civil war in Spain, and friendship with France. Olympic Games Founder The death has occurred of Baron Pierre de Fredt de Coubertin, founder of the Olympic Games and president of the Union Pedagogique Universelle. He collapsed while walking and died oi apolexy. King's Cup Air-Race There are 31 entrants for the King's Cup air race to be flown on Friday and Saturday of next week. A new feature this year is a continuous course which covers 1442 miles. The entrants include nine Miles aeror planes, nine Percival Gulls and four B.A. Eagles. One woman pilot' will compete. — British Official Wireless, Visit to Holland The Lord Mayor of Hnll arrived at Rotterdam on Thursday on a civic visit,. and was welcomed at the Town Hall by the Burgomaster. He afterwards visited The Hague and Scheveningen. The Lord Mayor and party will be en-r-tertained to dinner by the Rotterdam Municipality, and later they will make a tour of that part. — British Official Wireless. Steamers Collide In a. dense fog off Portugal, the steamer Port Chalmers, bound for Australia, collided with the City of Oran. The latter was badly holed, and her No. 1 hold is full of water. She is slowly heading for Lisbon. The Port Chalmers advised that her stem was extensively damaged above the waterline, while the forepeak tank was leaking a.ud the" steamer required docking. Plane Sheds Wings The crews of 100 planes essemblea at Cleveland for the United States national air races saw Lee Miles, aged 37, American champion racing pilot for 1934, crash to death when trying out the plane lie intended to pilot in the races. When travelling at 270 miles an hour the plane slied its wings and plungied into a clump of trees. Miles was catapulted from the cockpit, and his clothes were stripped from his body. New Wheat Variety Farmers of the Canadian NorthWest are acclaiming Thatcher spring wheat, the product of 25 years' experimentation. They declare that tests involving 2364 varieties proved " that Thatcher was outstanding. It suffered only 6 per cent. damage from black rust * and yielded an average of 24.1 bushels an acre, outdoing all rivals, including Ceres, which suffered 70 per cent. damage. Its yield was 9.1 bushels. Return to Industry The Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, on Ms return from visiting the South Wales training centres, said that plans would be ;devised for the speedy return to industry of elderly men, of whom there were 20,000 in South "Wales, unemployed for six months and over. With regard to the problem of young men, Mr Brown said that the success of the training centre at Mcrthyr was encouraging. — British Official Wireless.