CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 70, 15 December 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Not Planning Flight LONDON : Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand airwoman, denies the report that she is planning a record solo fiighb from England to Melbourne. She says that she has no fiight in contemplation. Consistory Court VATIOAN CITY: At a secret session of the. Consistory Court held at 5 a.m. the Pope created five Cardinals. Tbe Pope in tbe course of tbe ceremony deplored tbe conflict in the Far East, Jikewise the impious and atrocioua things happening to Christians in Russia and Germany, and tbe sad and liarrowing events continuing to agitate Spain. But be saw hopes of betterment. Sydney Wool Saies SYDNEY : At tlie wool saies yester day 8172 bales >vere offered and 7690 sold, as well as 1081 privately. The market was again 5 per cent. highei for all descriptions, tbe greatest apprcciation being on sliafty topmaking wools. In addition to keen Home and Continental buying, tbe Japanese continue to operate on a keen, liberal scale. Greasy merino sold to 26£d. Prisoners Aid Gaolers LONDON : Three prisoners reweued their two injured gaolers when a prison van taking them to Lewes from Brighton was overturned by a gale. The prLsoners, wlio were only bruised, iielped out the stunned gaolers, to wliom tbey rendered first aid, pending treatment. i