CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 198, 7 September 1937, Page 8

CABLE BREVITIES

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(By Telegraph-

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Quake In Tasmania. Earth tremors were felt along the east coats of Tasmania and at Fliuders Isiand on Saturday night. Housea were shaken, but no material damage was done. Cooks To Die. Three cooks were sentenced to death at .Leningrad for attenipting to poison restiaurant custoiners with foul meat. Fifteeii people are aflectedj. Their fate is unknown. The Court declared thac malice against the Government actuated tho culprits. t Thieves Thwarted Audacious thieves broke' into ~ ai hotel at Richmond, a suburb of Meibourne, threw a sate into the yard from the top floor, and tben telephoned for a taxi to take it" away. The taxi-driver realising that a crime hhd been committed, drove the safe to the police station leaving the safe-break-ers standing in tbe hotel yard. Constables rushed to the hot'el but the thieves had escaped. South Africa First. Amid enthusiasm, and before delegates drawn from all walks of life throughout the Union of South Africa, the Prime Minister, General Hertzog, inaugurated a youth movement aiming at the consolidation of young South Africans as a national f orce to promote and protect cnltural national possessions, combat disintegration and, generally, maintain a united sovereign independent State, The motto ii "Sojith Africa First." By Sea and Canal Weekly sailings have been arranged of shaps between Ldndon and Antwerp by which, in conjunction with canal barge services, cargoes can be carried to and from Midland cities in. England almost entirely by water. The canal journey from London to Birmingham takes aheut 50 hours, travelling day and night. It. is expected cargo from Antwerp will take about four daya to reacb Nottingham or Birmingham, including a day spend in transfering the goods at London from the ship to hghters. — British Official Wireless. Scientific Opinion. Behind the announcement that a large delegation of members of the joritish Association will attend, the suver jubilee, of the Indian Science Gongress, says the London Daily Telegnaph, lies an important development — namely, the creation of . machinery for co-operation and interchange of scientific opinion throughout the Empire. The congress will be held at Calcutta m January. Although nonnal annual meetings of the British Association kave occasionally been held in the Dominions, this is the first time a representative delegation has sat in joint session with an Empire scientific ■boay. ^ { King and Queen It is officially airnounced that the King and Queen will visit Yorkshire on October 19, when they will be the guests of the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood at Harewood House. During the following two days they will visit the industrial centres of Bradford, Halifax, Leeds, Wakefield and Sheffield. — British Official Wireless. Sydney Wool Sale At the Sydney wool saies yesteiday 12,936 bales were oifered and 8436 sold ; also 599 privately. The weaker tendency at last week's auctions continued yesterday, and the market for other than best iieece and free broken was 10 to 15 per cent below tbe opening rates, best description falling 5 to per cent. ■ Competition was mainly from the Continent and Yorkshire. Greasy Merino made to 23d. Tbe average price of wool last week was £20 8/7 a bale, and 15.3d. per pound.