CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

The Spanish Government, like. most others, is confronted with, the difficulty of balancing its Budget, states a Madrid message., TJlp Cabinet has decided on drastic measures. Flight-Commander R. E. R. Atcherley (England) is at Cleveland, Ohio, for the United States national air races. He received cuts and bruises when making a landing on Friday. • » » Totalisator in Victoria. Officials of the Treasury at Melbourne ‘ inspected the new totalisator machines at the suburban racecourses at Mentone and Ascot, and reported favourably upon their operation. The machines will be used for the first time at the next meetings at those courses. [By Kadio, per Mr. I. M. Levy.] Girl Marathon Swimmer. Margaret Ravior, of Philadelphia, won the ten-mile women's Marathon swim on Friday for the. second successive vear, states a Toronto message. She gets 5000 of the 10,000 dollars prize money. Iler time was 4hrs. 56min. 44 2-ssec. Mrs. Ethel Bertie Gary, of New York was second, and Ethel McGarry, of New York, third. * Wine Market Sought. Canada’s trade balance with Australia is so much in her favour that Australian grape-owners and makers of wine hope to redress the balance slightly by creating a market in Canada for antipodean wine, according to Mr. William R. Nairn, of' Australia, states a Montreal message. Mr Nairn has already been successful in making contracts with six of the provincial liquor commissions in Canada. The Department of Agriculture in Washington announces that United States farmers intend to plant 12 per cent, less winter wheat next fall than waa hotjested this you.