CABLE BREVITES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 54, 26 November 1937, Page 7

CABLE BREVITES

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Madame Fontange NEW YORK: A Federal judge admitted' Madame Fontanges uuder a bond of 1000 dollars pending the'Court hearing of her appeal against the ruling by which she was excluded from the United States. Madame Fontanges was ordered not to appear as an actress or a public performer also ' to xefrain from attempting 'to profit by her alleged love affair with Signor Mussolini. An ironical developmenfc is the closmgdown of the night club which bro'ught Madame Fontanges from France, owing to more stringent application of the civic regulations. Medical Examiner PEETH: A passenger by the Orama, which axrived from Loudon, is Professor Cecil P. G. Wakeiey, oue of England 's leading surgecms, who is visiting Australia on behalf of the .Primary Fellowship of the Koyal College of Surgeons. He will conduct examiuations at Melbourne and Sydney and will afterwards visit Dunedin. Bomber and Hens | LONDON: Allegations by poulttyfarmers ' that a low-flying bomber stopped hens laying, caused many to moult and chiclcens to die, led to the Court-martial of Pilot-Officer Dennis Bamb.er, of Hampshire. A poultrywoman is claiming £300 from the Air Ministry to conipeusato for the reduced egg output. The Court-martial was adjourned. Kangaroos Beaten LONDON: Jn a Rugby Leaguc match, Swinton beat" the touring Australian team, 5 — 3, after a scoroless lirst balf. The Australians had all the better of the first half, in which Swinton were hardly out of their own end of the ground. Each side scored a try in the second spell, but Beaton failed to convert Auetralia '».

Air-Base Scheme Lapses LONDON: Chiefly on the grounds. that it should be national expeuditure and not a, part of the ratepayers' responsibility, the Portsmouth Oity Council rejected the Langston air-base proposal. The Bill, therefore, lapses, though it is suggested that the Government might carry out the sr heine alone. A British Official Wireless message recently stated that the Portsmouth Docks and Airport Committeo had p&ssed a new scheme for the establishment of an Empire air base at Langston Harbour, for presentation to the City Council. The ostimatod ejst i was £750,000, towards which there , would be a grant of about £160.000 from tlie Government. Expulsion Order COLOMBO: Sir Andrew . Cadecott, Govornor of Ceylon, has appointed a Commission lieuded by the Chief Justice to inquire into the origins of the' iesue and. the subsequcnt annuimenl of a -deportation order against Mark Bracugirdle, a tea jilantation migrant from Australia, who was ordered to leave Ceylon within 24 hours owing to his activities in connection with a local social party ied by an Indian wornan. The Ceylon State Council considered that the Governor's expulsion of Biacegirdle violated the Coustitution and the express conditions of the Governor's appointment. Typhoid in London RUGBY; The chairman of the hospitals and medical supplies eommittee of the London County Council stated at. a council meeting that the numbcr of cases of typhoid and paratyphoid which had been notilied so far this year j in the London area as a whole was 192, J eompared with 242 for the corresponding period last year, and with the flgure ot 264 which was the average annual number of notifieations during tho last 10 ycars.— British Official Wireless. Win by Knock-out NEW YORK: Pedro Montanez knocked out Joe Pennino iu the tliird .ronnd of a teu-round bout.