CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 34, 3 November 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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N.S.W. Rainii tonns \ Fierce' tropicttl rainstorms are sweep* ing tbe north and central coast of New South Wales.- Creeks and rivers aro overflowing and* floods .are predicted* Botter at 2/- a lb.? ; * Quoting a x. uolesaler's repcrt. that it has been impossiblo to st-m the demand for butter or find supplies to meet it, the Lm.uon Daily HdRld- di&cusses the.possibility of a further rise of 25/- a'cwt., making prime New Zealand at Christmas time 2/- a lb. retaiL Act Declared Ultra Vires The Supreme Court of Alberta has nxled that the Aberhart Social Credit. Act.reducing provincial . hond interesti is ultra vires, The Independent Order. of Fofesters has been awarded 5600, dollars retained when interest war cut from 6^to 3 per aeoxt. Japan's Wool Imports Tokio wool importers have appoint* ed a committee to negotiate with the Government concerning imports under i the • new regulationr. It is understood that Japan may not be able to purchaso the full ' aggregate quota. of 800,000 bales from Ausfcralia, but nxay permxt the purchase of 500,000 bales and also fair qfiantities from- New Zealand and South Africs,. ' . Sydney Wool Saies At tbe Sydney wool' salos- yesterday 12,505 bales were offered and 11,030 sold ; - also 1359 privately. The inauguration of tho zone system at * yesterday 's auctions brought a quot'a of attractive free wools into the catalogues and the values of all better deacriptions were .very firm. Yorkshire ' competed -a little wider on suitable lines. ^freasy merino made 25 3-4d. and eomeback to 25d. - ; ; - Wealtby Chinese Killed Chin-'Jack Lem, aged 61, one of the most'powerful and feared and also one of the wealthiest Chinese in Ohicago, was shot dead in the heart of Chiinatown. His assassin'is believed to be a Chinese. A Tong war is feared. TTi« sons believe the sh'ooting is a reprisal for Lem's refusal to contribute to the fund for the Chinese war. - It is believed that Lem, who was imprisoned in 1924 on a charge of extortion, had many enemics.

Federal Parliament The Fed,eral Parliament' will mew>. *m * November 30. for a brief session. . The Prime Miaiister, Mr J. A. Lyons, announced yesterday that select committee -would be appointed to consider,the question of altering the method of

voting for the Senato:. Croat Party Claih An qfficial communique blames Yvaa .Mesaroff, a member of Parliament for the clash at a meeting of the Croat Party, vjhen several were killed and others injured. The communique states that Mesaroff fired his revolver in the air and urged his followers to attack the gendarmes when they ordered the meeting to, disperse. Bottomley's Ashes Miss. Peggy Primrose yesterday collect.ed the ashes of Horatio Bottomley, which, since his 'death in. May of. 1935, have remained in an urn at the premiscs of a Marylebone undertaker. Miss Primrose will scatter the ashee on the Alfriston downs. Liners Diverted . . Calls at Australian and New Zealand ports will be substituted for proarranged calls at Chinese and Japa'ne38 ports by the Cunard-White Star liner Franconia, which is starting on a world craise of 45,000 iniles from Southamptou on December '24. To Stay With Aunt The Supreme Court overruled- the application of the parents of Freddie Bartholomew, the English boy film actor, and decided that the boy should remain in the custody of his Aunt Millicent, states a Hollywood message. Freddie, who said he was very happy^ formally shook hands with his xnother and politely noddea good-bye to hxa father, neither of whom he had seea for a year. His aunt 's attorney Unounced to the Court that he would seek the revocation of the agreement by which tho parents anticipated ia . •Freddie 's earningi.