CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 6

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Kangaroos Defeated LONDON: Warrington defeated the Australians 8 — 6 after Australia had led at half-time by 6 — 3.

£693,305 Estate LONDON : Mr. Bruce fsmay, former chairman of the White Star Line, left £693,305, excluding settled property. Ships Collide LONDON: The inward-bound Mongo lia collided in a Tog near The Nore in the Thames Estuary . with the wllier Corfleet. The latter was badly lioled amidships. The port side of the Mongolia's bows were stove in and she anchored under difficulties, later being docked at Tilbury. £5000 Dividend SYDNEY : The winners of two Manchester races, Solitaire in the November Handicap and Wheel of Joy in the Three O'clock, paid a record totalisator dividend for . double, approximating £5000. It i# reported that there wa» only one winnlng ticket,. Swimming Record SYDNEY; The F yoiithful champioii swimmer Hohin Biddulpli hroke the British Empire Games record by 4 2-4 seconds at the Manly (Sydney) bathi on Saturday, swimming 440 yards in 4.58-4. Capetown Harbour OAPETOWN : The Dutch firm of Hollandsche Anneming Matechappij was successful with ,a eontract price of £1,125,262 for the first stage of the reconstruction of. the Capetown harbour. There were three British and seven French tenderers.* Anti-Fascists Gaoled HOME: Eight more alleged anti- • Fascists were sehtenced t,o terms of imprisonment xanging from one to 12 months. Nearly 80 have been sentenced for alleged anti-Fascist activities in th® past five weeks .

Air-Mail • Records LUNDON; More Christmas greeting^ are going hy air mail than ever before. Many Empire services have been doubled, even quadrupled. The Post Officss expects unprecedented British traffic, and is employing 75,000 extra wofkers/ It is helieved that 62,000,000 lettenr will b© posted in London alone. Novel Christmas Gift v RUGBY: The British railway eom* panies have adopted a scheme by which , the public can give railway trav'el as a Christmas present to relative or friends." Persons inviting friends for Christmas or the New Year can enclose," with the invitation, special railway tickets for the journey issued by the companies, or tickets can be inserfo ed in' slots provided in a special greete ing card which- the companies are pm ducing. — ^British Official /Wireless^ His Last Race LONDON: Steve' Donoghue ended his career as a jockey on Saturday, when he rode -Highlander, who finished third, in the Final Plate at Mancheater. V ' ' A . . . " . . / Women's Tennis SYDNEY : The Austrahan women tennis players again triumphed over the Americans on Saturday, Miss Coyn® beating Aliss Workman, 6 — 1, 8-— 6, Miss -Wynne beat Mj.ss Bundy 4 — 6, 6—3, 6 — 2, and Misses Coyne and Wynne defeating Misses Bundy and Workman 6 — 4„ 4r— 6, 6—44. The Aus tralians thus won by fiv6 rubbers to one, with 11 sets and 95 games to 5 sets and 72. games. Another Bradman? SYDNEY : Another promising batsman has caught the eye of the Australian selectors — nainely, Sid Barnes, who is a first-grade player for the Fetersham club. His recent scores are 68 for the New South Wales Sheffield side at Brisbane, 97 against New Zealand, and two successive centuries against the visiting Western Australian team. Barnes sa,ved the New South Walee side from defeat in the latter matcb, which ended on Saturday. Tibbet for N.Z. NEW YORE: Mr. Lawrence Tibbett, the famous operatic baritone, has arrived from Europe. He is' sailing in March for Australia and New Zealand on a concert tour. Test Match Hours. LONDON : The hours of play in the cricket tests between England and Australia have been fixed as from 11.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. daily% Calls at Shanghai, RUGBY : The P. and O. states that its passenger steamers on the Cliina service are resuming calls at Shanghai. — British Official Wireless. Mass-Production Record. Rugby ; The production of motor vehicles in tlie . United ELingdom for the year ended September 30 exceeds for the first time 500,000. • .Of the total, 389,633 ivere cars and 118,116 commercial vehicles, representing an increase.in both classes of 10 per cent. over 1936. The number of vehicles exported was 98,663 compared with 75,153 in 1936. Imports for the year totalled 12,550.— British Official Wireless. Search for Blood. WINDSOR (Ontario) : Physicians said an invalid, Weston Fletcher, was certain to die i'rom a rare steptocoecus mfection unless somebody who had r*covered from the disease could be found in order to give a blood transfusion. There was a faint hope of blood from a patient in England being sent-if it could be preserved. °