CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 1, 24 September 1937, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES

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Bank of England The Bank of England half-yearly dividend is 6 per cent. The profit is estimated at £655,813. Drought Sufferers The Canadian Government will sap* ply direct relief to 48,000 S&skatehewan families who have suffered losses m the drought. Visit to Australia It is announced that Marchesa Marconi has advised that she will be delighted to aecept the radio engineers' invitation to visit Australia for the sesquicentenary celebrations next year. The Marc heaa will be accompanied by her daughter. War Graves in Italy Questions concerning the graves of British soldiers in Italy will be dis. cussed by the Imperial War Graves Commission in London on October 12. Some 4000 British soldiers died in Italy during the war. — British Official Wireless. Jean Batten's Plans Miss Jean Batten made a 15-hour fuel test of her Percival-Gull at Sydaey, but refused to disclose her plansShe has received an invitation from the Tasmanian Aero Club to attempt to bxeak the Sydney-Launceston air record created by the late Mr J. Melrose Divorce Abandoned Her attorney hjas announced that Mrs. Delphiie Goode, a sister of Mr. Howard Dodge, the motor-car millionaire, is abandoning her plan to obtained a divorce with the .object oi marrying the boxer, Jack Doyle. Mrs. Goode's decision is said to be due to parental cbjections to her plans. Five Million Dollars Mr Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt celebrated his 25th birthday at Baltiraore by receiving 5,000,000 dollars under tho will cf his father. The will bequeatli:bim twenty million dollars, payable in irstalments. Mr Vanderbilt is using part of the legacy to purchase a 450aere farm, making his racehorse-brced-mg and training establishment the xargest in the country. 12,000 Dollars Missing Officials of the Americkn Trust Co., when invoicing the contents of the vaults, were astounded to find 12,000 dollars in silver coin missing and iron bars substituted, states a San Jose (California) message. It is alleged that David Storm, a clerk, stole the money and refilled the packages with oars machined to the exaet cireumference of dollars, half-dollars and quar-ter-doUars. Storm was prevlou^jr chairged with stealing 46,000 dollari from tho company.