CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 74, 20 December 1933, Page 11

CABLE BREVITIES

Messrs. T. A. Green, A. H. Harvie, and C. R. Lambert, of New Zealand, have passed the F.R.C.S. examination.

The House of Commons passed the second reading of a Bill permanently prohibiting the importation of dyestuffs and intermediary products.

According to present arrangements the King and Queen will leave London on Thursday for Sandringham, where they will spend Christmas, says a British official wireless message.

The Princess Ileana has given birth to a daughter. The daughter of the Dowager Queen of Rumania, she is the v , wife of the Archduke Anton of Austria, a member of the Hapsburg line.

The Australian National Travel Association has announced that over 100 members of the Masonic Islam Temple will leave San Francisco on August 10 next to visit Australia and New Zealand.

A sensation was created in the Egyptian Parliament by the announce- *■ ment that Sidky Pasha had withdrawn his resignation from Parliament in order to defend himself from his successor’s criticism of his administration from which it is .now revealed he resigned because the King refused him complete Ministerial freedom. * * *

The Postmaster-General announces that from December IS a telephone service will be available with certain places in Northern and Southern Rhodesia, including Livingstone, Broken Hill. Salisbury, and Bulawayo, say’s a British Official Wireless message. The charge for a three-minute Call to Northern Rhodesia will be £6/15/-, and to Southern Rhodesia £6/9/-.

The case of the burnt-out liner L’Atlantique has been argued and judgment will be given early in January, says a Paris message. Counsel for the SudAtlantique Company contended that the liner was not repairable, and should have been abandoned and the insurance paid. The underwriters’ counsel claimed that she was repairable, adding that a British firm had tendered at £1,166,666.