CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 17, 14 October 1933, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES

D. R. Jardine’s M.C.C. team arrived on Thursday morning at Bombay, and is going direct to Karachi to meet a mixed team. • * » A message from Calcutta states that 22 persons in a wedding party at Amritsar died in a few hours of cholera in epidemic form. It is reported from Cape Town that General Hertzog’s fusion motion was carried at the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress.

The League of Nations Council at Geneva has adopted the Anglo-Persian oil settlement, copies of which were circulated to members. Mutual congratulations were exchanged.

At Rugby football, Durham beat Leicester, 15-10; Barbarians beat Newport, 16-10; and Northampton beat Guy’s Hospital, 27-13, states-a London message.

A British Official Wireless message states that the lists for cash application in connection with the issue of the Union of South Africa 31 per cent, loan were closed within five minutes.

A delegation representing United Kingdom producers and exporters will leave for Spain on October 14 to study the market, states a British Official Wireless message. They will later visit Finland. * *

The champion jockey, Gordon Richards, rode five consecutive winners at the Newmarket race meeting on Thursday, and his total for the season is now only 20 behind Fred Archer’s record of 246.—British Official Wireless.

Five of the six starters in the historic four-miles’ race for the Newmarket Town Plate, on Thursday, were ridden by women, states a British Oflicial Wireless message. The winner was Journey’s End, ridden bj Miss Gladys Waldron.

A message from Oklahoma City (U.S.A.) states that George “MachineGun” Kelly and his wife, G. Kathryn Kelly, who are the last of thq gang which kidnapped the millionaire Urschel. were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment to-day.

Shortage of Butter. A Cape Town message states that the Minister of Agriculture has issued a permit to the Dairy Association to import butter. Tlie drought has caused a shortage resulting in an advance in price to 2/5. The Union exported five million pounds, which was selling overseas at Sid a pound.

Communications Pageant. The central feature of the Lord Mayor’s Show, which will accompany the new Lord Mayor of London on his progress from the Guild Hall to the Law Courts in November, states a British Official Wireless message, will be a pageant epitomising Imperial and international communications in all phases—air. mail, steamship, motor, cable, and wireless

Tennis Professionalism. In the London “Daily Mail," S. N. Dou«t foresees a landslide of tennis amateurs to professionalism with, possibly. an early open championship. In addition to the amateur championship As the result of the progress of W. T. Tilden’s schemes four British prominent players declare unhesitatingly that they will join Tilden in International matches similar to the Davis Cup.