CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 11, 6 October 1937, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES

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Negro Boxer's Comeback The Canadian negro boxer, Larry Gains, made a convincing come-back at London, knocking out a Frehchman, Charles Rutz, in the second round of a 10-round bout staged by the National Spprting Club at tho Earl's Court Stadium. Motor Speed Record Captain G. E. T. Eyston started off in an attempt on the 24-hour motor speed record at the Utah Salt Flats, but abandoned the attempt after fifteen laps owing to mechanical trouble. He had then averaged 166 iuiies an hour. He immediately be'gan preparing the. car for an attack on the land speed record. Air Service to India A regular weekly Empire flying-boat serviee between England and India will begin to-day, when the Calypso ■vill leave Alexandria with passengers and mails for Karaehi. This will be the first Imperiai Airways flying-boat service from Southampton beyond Alexandria, and marks the advance of the reorganisation of Imperiai Airways to the Far East and the change from land planes. An exteiision will be made shortly to Australia. "Bankers' Toadies" Leaflets ontitled "Bankes' Toadies," and bearing the names of nine prominent Government opponents, are' in tho possession of the Edmonton' police following1 a raid under a search warrant of the offices of the Alberta Social Credit League. The namec are followed by the words ' Exterminate them." The raid was the result of a complaint to a magistrate that the leaflets were libellous. £1,644,000 Estate N The second estate of over £1,000,000 to be proved in Britain within the last few days belonged to Mr C. W. Harrison, ship owner, who died in July and left £1,644,236. The sum of £730,454 .will be paid in death duties. Duties totalling over £6,000,000 have been paid this year so far on ten estates of over a million pounds, of which the largest was £2,388,843, that of another ship owner, Lord Runciman — British Official Wireless. London Roads London 's road-repairitig progrummo for the next six months involves. tho rogurfaeiug of 3,793,000 square yards oi' carriageway, which is oue aud a-half tirues as much as in the correaponding period a year- ago. The programme includes a further extension of dual carriageways along the main traffic arteries , and also reconstruction work 011 the removal of tramway" tracks in eonnection with the substitution on many routes of trolleybuses by the London Transport Board.— -British Official Wireless, Polish Teachers Strike Eighty per cent. of the schools tliroughout Poland and all but three in Warsaw were suddenly cl«(ed by a strike of teachers as a result of the Government 'e suspending the executive of the Teachers' Union and appointing a temporary curator on the ground of the union 's Strong leanings to the Soviet. A thousand protesting teachers locked themselves up in the union headquarters, which the police cleared.