CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 187, 6 May 1931, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

Sir Ilari Singh, Maharajah of Kashmir, has been appointed Aide de Camp to the King, states a London message.

The late Sir Charles Parsons. 0.M... inventor and maker of the steam turbine, left a fortune valued at £BlO,OOO, states a' London message.

The New South Wales Government Statistician estimated the population of the metropolitan district of Sydney at December 31 lust at 1.253.500. '

For the first time since his illness the King, accompanied by the Queen, motored on Monday in. the grounds of Windsor Castle, states a British Official Wireless message.

Miss Lily Coppiestone, the New Zealand swimmer, will sail to-day aboard the Esperance Bay from Sydney to London. She will attempt to swim the English Channel.

A shocking tragedy occurred when a car ran over a bank and fell into the Herbert River, states a Brisbane message. Henry Bell, his wife Mary and his son Harold, aged ten. were all killed.

Schneider Cup Race. In the British Douse of Commons the Under-Secretary fol - Air. Mr. F. Montague, in reply to a question, said that the Royal Aero Club had accepted the entries of three aircraft, each from Italy and France, for the Schneider Trophy, which Britain would defend on the Solent on September 12.

Trading in Grain. According to a Vancouver message, the “Winnipeg Free Press.” in a dispatch from Ottawa.'states that the report of Sir Josiah Stamp, presented to the Premier, recommends' the continuance of trading in grain futures ns necessary to the handling of crops, but urges greater Government control on grain exchange operations.