CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 11

CABLE BREVITIES

A Nottingham business mau has chartered the fastest available air taxi and has left Hanwell in an attempt to reach the Canaries, where h s father u seriously ill, in three and a half days. ♦ * •

Under Signor Mussolini’s scheme ta offset the wage cuts and so reducing t cost of living, house rents are to be lowered 10 per cent., according to a message from Rome.

« * * The French Government has approved of twelve totalisator offices in Pans and branch offices in nine of the chief provincial cities for betting ou the Paris aud Deauville horse races, according to a cable dispatched yesterday.

A Loudon message states that arrangements have been made to disinter the bodies of the Misses Everard, the aunt and sister of Mrs. Annie Hearn, from a churchyard at Lewannlck, preparatory to an autopsy. Mrs. Hearn was recently reported to have disappeared after the death of her friend, Mrs. Alice Thomas, a Cornish farmer’s wife.

Interviewed at Perth.-Mr. Floyd, a passenger on the liner Bendigo, stated that as a result of the British Government’s failure to prevent the dumping of foreign cotton goods. Japanese - • terests are buying complete En.fiL mills for re-erection iu the \- lr TJiey are able to purchase loomst at about one-third their cost, and with cheap production a fresh menace soon face the Western industrial world.