CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 13, 8 October 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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League Player's Contract A report has been received at Syd« ney from London to- the elfeet that Fred Tottey, the Australian Rugby League player, has been signed .up Iwlth the Halifax Club for a four years .'.contract. • o "V J * Sydney Wool Saies The French sec.tion was . partieulariy " prominent at the Sydney , wool - salea yesterday. Japanese eo'mpetition wai Ihe best for this season.. Greasy merinomade 23d. Chess Title 'ihe world chess championship is being played at The Hague,,. The title-. holder Euwe defeated Aleghine after 60 moves, in the first of their matchea, Duke and fionsing A -message from New York says- that the New York National Public Housing Cont'erence ifias invited the Duke of Windsor to addrass the anhfal meeting at Washington, on January 21 of next year. Violinist's Injuries Tfie violmist's Bronislaw Huberman'e injuries, received when the Dutch Douglas air-liner croshed at Singapore, • are stated not to be senous in theiu■seives, but are on the afms.and hande and are causing . anxi.oty lest. 'tl^y affect, his -violin-playing^ - • Migration ConfereUce As far as can be ascertained, Britain, Ganada, New Zealand and South Africa will not ofiicially be represented at the Empire Migration Development Threeday Conference, whieh the Lord Mayot of London will open at Gnildhall 0a October 11, on the initiative of a nu»«. bor of voluntary bodie? Anthrax Research - Tho British Textile Institute has announced the award of its medai to Professcr William Eurich for his work . in k ducing the incidence of fatality 1'roin sntbrax. Professor Eurich, who is aged 70, has been Emeritus Professor at Leeds University since 1932, He is tfie special medical referee to the Home • Offi.ce for anthrax, aniline and .lead poisoning. — (British Official Wireless), Still in Gaol The wife of Pastor Martin Niemoll«r has given birth to her eighth child, reports a Berliu message. The • pastoi has been in prison without trial since July. ' Pastor Niemoller was arresteu for aunouncing from the pulpit the names of members of the congregation who has seceded from the church, sucn an announcement being forbidden by *he Minister of the Interior. Tour Interrupted Miss Diana Phillips, who left London on September 20 with Miss Betty Somerset on a motor journey to Calcutta, via Budapest, Constantinople, Bagdad, Damascus, Quetta and Deihi, has returned home ill. Miss Somerset teleplioned to London from Budapest asklng the racing motorist, Miss Paddie Naismith .to join in the trip. Miss Naismith replied that sh-e was uncertainj but siie would either fly to Budapest or try to iind a companion to accompany Miss Somerset. Record Divorce Actions The record uumber of 1962 divorces will be heard during the Miehaelmas term, says a London message. Of thoee 1351 are uudelended. The petitlona mciude that of Mrs Raymond Viuceut de Tiafford, who married five years ago after shootiiig de Trafford lierself at the Gare du Nord iu Paris, while Count Frederic de Janse, her then husband, was suing for a divorce. She was I'ound guilty and given a forinal sentence and a fine. De Trafford claimed that thk shooting was accidental.