CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 11

CABLE BREVITIES

The Argentina Department of Agriculture forecasts that the next wheat crop will be 6,792,000 tons, one million tons less than the last crop. ♦ * * A message from Port of Spain, Trinidad, states that Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh arrived after a flight of over 900 miles from Manos, on the Amazon. ♦ ♦ ♦ \ Plans have been prepared for a new theatre for Sydney, to cost £350,000. It will be 14 stories-"high, with a portion for business purposes. It will be situated in Castlereagh Street. Five Quebec coal firms were convicted under Federal legislation of restraining trade by fixing prices restricting the importation of Welsh coal. They were fined 7000 dollars each. # ♦ » The master of the Finnish ship Olovpborg, Captain Biscop, was fined £2OO in Melbourne for having been the master of a vessel from which prohibited immigrants landed. ♦ * * The second cold wave of the winter held the eastern portion of the United States in an icy grip. Below zero temperatutes, accompanied by high winds, were reported in many sections, with 11 deaths from cold. * * ♦ Yehudi Menuhin, the young violinist, left an audience of 8000 breathless at the Albert Hall. He played until his arms were weary and his collar burst. The crcgvd would not disperse until the lights in the hall were switched off- * * * After a stormy discussion the British B oxi pg Board of Control rescinded resolutions passed in October restricting the powers of stewards and giving members of the board a greater share in the control. * « Digging an underground passage 58 desperadoes, including gangsters and murderers, escaped from solitary confinement at Barcelona, reaching the town'sewers. Thirty-two were rearrested, and the police are searching the sewers for the remainder. <*■ » * The first wireless programme from India was sent to England on Wednesday and radiated over the entire service of the 8.8. C., says a British Official Wireless message. The programme was opened by a short speech by Lord Brabourne, who five days ago took over the Governorship of Bombay. Tlie worst disaster for many year< in Chinese inland waters occurred on the Yangtze River. According .to reports, a small Chinese steamer, pro ceeding to Hankow, crashed into a Government troopship during a heavy fog. sinking within a few minutes, it is estimated that sixty lives were lost, all Chinese.