CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1933, Page 11

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

FORD LITIGATION.

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PHILADELPHIA, October 13.

A verdict for 100,000 dollars againpt Henry Ford was awarded to-day by a jury, in suits involving the manufacturer and the Sweeten Automobile Company, over an agency dispute.

POLITICAL BROADCASTS.

RUGBY, October 14.

The British Broadcasting Corporation’s new policy of permitting uncensored political wireless talks by spokesmen for different parties duripg the present autumn, was inaugurated last night, with a speech by Mr Baldwin. Mr Lansbury, Opposition Leader, will reply next Thursday, apd addresses by other prominent politicians of different parties will follow each week until December.

Mr Baldwin referred to rapid advances made in the export trade, a steady reduction in the adverse trade balance and an increase during last year by 700,000 in the number of persons brought into employment. Satisfactory trade returns continue to exercise a favourable influence on the stock markets, and business was active in industrials and broadened in other directions.

TREASURE ISLAND.

LONDON, October 15.

“The Sun” is informed that a French official sails for Tahiti to arrange to place a Government armed schooner at the disposal of a Melbourne resident, F. W. Wood, in search of treasure on Mahateia Island. Other members of the expedition will leave England within a fortnight.

SAILORS’ RUM.

LONDON, October 13.

As one compensation for their long, arduous voyage, the crews of the six British destroyers to be lent to Australia, will receive a regular rum ration, which is not customary in the Royal Australian Navy, but it is being adopted on the vessels’ forthcoming journey partly for the benefit of many Royal Navy ratings among the crew.

BOY PATIENT AND DUKE.

LONDON, October 15.

Teddy Stewart, a patient at the Pontypridd hospital, cherished a dream that on his ninth birthday, he would meet the Duke of Gloucester, who was visiting the hospital, but Teddy recovered and was discharged, full of lament. The nurses sprang a surprise and told him to return to-day, and tucked him in a cot, where the Duke enraptured him with a few minutes’ chat. NICE IN DARKNESS. NICE, October 15. A huge buzzard, striking the high tension wire, plunged the city into darkness, at the dinner hour. Motor lamps were the only illuminants in the streets. The crowds in the cafes dined by candle-light,