CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 189, 8 May 1931, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

The air mail to Australia has arrived at Rangoon. * *

The revolt in Madeira and the Azores cost Portugal £56,000, states the Minister of Finance, Dr. A. O. Salazar, according to a Lisbon message.

The death has occurred in Sydney of Mr. William Cameron, Nationalist member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 1918, at 'the age of 53.

The Australian Commonwealth Post-master-General, Mr. A. E. Green, has announced that a Dutch experimental air mail flight between Batavia and Australia would begin on May 11.

The Austrian Vice-Chancellor, Herr Sehober, informed the Paris newspaper “Le Matin,” that out of respect for the League of Nations, the Austro-German Customs Union negotiations have been suspended.

Mrs. Kidston doubts that her husband, Commander Glen Kidston, who was killed in a plane crash in South Africa, was anything like a millionaire, states a London message. He spent his fortune on flying experiments.

The British House of Commons has passed a resolution authorising the land tax introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden, as part of his financial proposals for the coming year, by 289 votes to 230.

Mr. Kaye Don, who will endeavour to beat his ow.i water-speed record of 103 miles an hour nt a motor-boat regatta on Lake Garda on May 18, left London for Italy on Wednesday, states a British Official Wireless, message.

In addition to representing Australia at the Mandates Commission at Geneva in June, Mr. J. R. Collins, of Australia House, will represent the British Empire and will answer questions regarding the Nauru mandate, states a London message.

Great , medical interest is taken in Barbara Weng, a seventeen-months-old Brixton baby, born with a silver tooth, states a London message. Sir Bernard Spilsbury has examined her, and X-ray photographs have been taken. The doctor says it seems genuine silver.

The death is announced in London of the Duke of Somerset at the age of 71. He succeeded his cousin in 1923. He was Deputy-Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores at the War Office from 1914 to 1918. He is succeeded by his son, Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Seymour.

The First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. A. V. Alexander, stated in the House of Commons on Wednesday that two ships of the British Navy would pny an informal visit to Kiel in July, nnd it was hoped that ships of the German Navy would visit the United Kingdom when their programme permitted, reports a British Official Wireless message.

Windfalls for State. The New York State Treasury, which had a £4,000,000 deficit lately, ends the fiscal year with a handsome surplus, composed of windfalls and inheritance taxes from Ella Wendel. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and Mr. George Baker, the banker. The Inst-nnmed’s estate will pay 16 per cent, on about £16,000.000.