CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 11

CABLE BREVITIES

Sergeant-Major William Hawkins, one of Canada’s greatest rifle shots and winner of the King’s Prize at Bisley in 1913, died on Thursday while playing golf, states a Toronto message.

The London “Daily Express’s” Bucharest correspondent says that King Carol of Rumania refuses to banish Madam Lupescu, but is prepared to grant all Queen Helen’s other demands.

A proposal to send an envoy to China to arrange sales of Western Canadian wheat will be considered at a meeting of Western Premiers at Regina to-day. The movement is due to the drop in wheat prices.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, In answer to a question in the House of Commons, said that the brokerage paid to stockbrokers, solicitors, and others over the British War Loan conversion would be somewhat under £4 million.

Mr. F. Phillips, Under-Secretary at the Treasury, has been appointed one of the British Government’s representatives on the preparatory committee for the forthcoming International Monetary and Economic Conference in place of Sir Walter Layton, who resigned.

A Melbourne resident, Mr. Eric Malpass, who is tramping the world, earning a living by singing, left Dover with a few shillings in his pocket for home, via Europe, Asia, Japan, and America. He says that he was never destitute during his four months in England.