CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 45, 16 November 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

'(B» Telegrapb-Press Aasn. -Copyrignt.) Emperor in Poverty LONDON: ^ The Daily Mail discloses that the . f ormer Ethiopian Emperor, Haili, Sellassie, is trying to sell his house, in Bath in order to move to cheaper quarters. He says: "We have absolutely no income and are compelled to live on ou'r- capital. Our money has gono in fielping refugees and in litigation." Russian Tribute MOSCOW: Af a ceremonial session for the ' late ' Lord Rutherford at the Physical Institute, Moseow State University, -Professor Kapitsa, a member of tlie Soviet Ac.ademy of. Sciences, who was one of Lord Rutherford 's closest collaborators for 14.years,.spQlte of his memories of . his associations with him. Movie Share Deal HOLLYWOQD: . Mary ■ Piclcford, Douglas. Fairbanks, senr., and Charlie Chaplin are ' re^iring from , the United Artists Corporation ipider an .agreement by which they are selling their stock holdings, estimated at '6,000,900 dollars, to Samuel Goldwyn, Alexander Korda and E. H. Levei*, a New York financier. Unruly Crowd . New York: The question whether Mr. John M'ontague, who' was recently acquitted on an old robbery ch'arge and is renowned as ' a freak p'layer,' is the world's -greatest golfer remained unanswered after the first publie charity match in which ..the other -participants were Mrs Annenberg, Babe Ruth, and Babe Didrikson. The match was abandoned at the... »inth\ due to. the .unruly gallery of 12,000 through - and. around which the players in vain endeavoured to shoot. Ration-Cards Ready London; Reynold's News learns in connection with the defence programme that 40,000,000 food-r.ation caids have been printed. ahd storcd- and .will be distributed throughout tlie country in the New Year. , ' Sydney; V/ooI Saies 1 Sydney: At the wool saies yesterday 10,979 bales were offered and: 8400 sold, also 674 privately. The market was firm for all good wools at the. closing rates of . last week. Short and faulty descriptions, however, • continued irregular, .b'eing difficult to sell.. Competition came m'ainly from the Continent and Yorkshive. Greasy Merino made to 26d. The average priCe of wool last week was £16 8/3 per bale or 13£d per lb. Runaway Ballocn , Paris: ' The British observation balloon, wliich escaped from Mahton, fiilally came down in a cabbage field in Belgium. The French balloon which escaped from Trappes, negr Yersailles, came d.own. in.the. circumstances al- . ready a.tat—3 " .