CABLE BREVITIES
In a formal ceremony before the Kobe Chamber of Commerce, 720.000 pearls were burned for the purpose ot stiffening prices.' * « * The Niagara, which was to sail from Vancouver yesterday for Auckland and Sydney, carries a 3000-ton cargo, mostly British Columbia onions aud apples. The Countess Beatty left £107,131 in Britain, in addition to property elsewhere amounting to millions of dollars from the estate of her father, the late .Marshall Field. of Chicago. * V ♦ The cruiser Hawkins left Portsmouth on Tuesday for service as flagship of the East Indies Squadron in place of the Effingham. The Hawkins is due at Bombay on November 10. , « * A Pearl of Great Price. A pearl of rare size and beauty weighing IS carats, which was obtained at Bahrein, in rhe Persian Gulf, has been sold, at Bombay for several thousand pounds.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 16, 13 October 1932, Page 9
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138CABLE BREVITIES Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 16, 13 October 1932, Page 9
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