CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Sold for £5000 SYDNEY: The late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's fine home at Darling Boint, Sydney, was yesterday auetioned by his widow, who is " shortly re-marrymg, lt brought £5000, Wholesale Prices RUGBY: The Board of Trade index of wholesale prices was 0.5 per cent. lower in Oetober than in September, but 13.5 per cent. above the level of a year before.— /British ■ Official Wireless. 23-Seater Air-Liner SYDNEY: The most modern type of air-imer, a giant Douglas DC3 with cabin accommodation for 23 passengers arrived at Mascot aerodrome yesterday from Melbourne. It will join the Bris-bane-Sydney-Melbourne-Adelaide * air servica, Pensions for Bfa'nd LONDON : Blind persons irjt future will receive the old-age pensions at 40 years of age instead of 50 under the Blind Persons Bill, which has passed the second xeading in the House of Commons. There are 78,000 registered blind in England, Wales and ' Scotland, of whom about 57,000 are aged 50. and upwards and 8000 between 40 and 50. Malaria on Ship PERTH: An outbreak of what is thought to be malignant malaria on thesteamer Trefusis, which has arrived at Albany after a dash for medical- aid, has "cau'sed the deaths 'of two members of the crew. Eleven ether cases are on board. The deaths occurred on tho voyage from Capetown. the last port of call. The vessel is strictly quarantinod, Nobel Awards STOCKHOLM: The . Nobel Prize fo? literature has been awarde.d to tho •French author, Roger Dugard. Professor George Paget Thomson will share the Nobel Prize for physics with Dr. Clinton . Davisison, of Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York. Professor Walter Norman Haworth will share the chemistry award with Professor Paul Karrer, of Zurich University. Godless Conference ' LONDON; A report, that & Godless congress : is being held tin London on April 6, 1938, was mentioned in tho House of Commons. Sir Samuel Hoaro (Home Secretary) hoped. that the report was without foundation. He refer-i, red to the traditional toleration , but said that the police would ■ act if there was danger of a breach of the peace, British Birth-Rate Rises LCWDON : The British hirthrate Inst year showed the first increase i'or many years. The figures were 14.8 per thou-i sand Compared with 1*4.7 in 1935 and 14.4- in 1933, which was the Towest ever recorded. The County of Durham, one of the worst of the distressed areas, had the highest,- 17.3, disproving the theory that unemployment* is to blame for the decline in population. World Wool Supply NEW YORK: The New York Tintee Washington correspondent says that the Bureau of Agricultural Economics foro* east3 that the world wool supply in 1938 will slightly exceed that of 1937,, but will be below the average for the last five years. The bureau thinks that mill consumption in the United States, also in some foreign couutries, will be probably below that of 1937, owing to, a considerable accumulation of manui factuied woollens in consequence of the large domestic mill consumption since . 1935. _ ... . . Typhoid" Research RUGBY : Satisfactory progress in the research on typhoid and cholera is recorded in the annual report of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, "in which is now incorp'orated the Ross Institute. . It is stated the chemical fractions which appear to have . effective immunising powers have been isolated from the organisms of typhoid fever, whooping cough and cholera, and a point has been Teached where the praetical application of some of the results is within view. — British Official Wireless. Mariposa Dispute SYDNEY: The Mariposa sailed at 12.15 p.m. yesterday for Auckland witl four of her original crew missing, in« cluding three junior engineers and a galley hand. Two substitute englneers were engaged at the last minute. Ihe galleyman had obtained - permission to marry and remain .in Australia. The engmeers were involved in a dispute ou the way out from San Francisco^ They wanted permission to take theie meals in the messroom with the unlicensed engineers instead of the saloon, but the captain was unable to acqulsca. The Mariposa was delayed only 20 mL nutes. ■