CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1934, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

NEWFOUNDLAND LOTTERY. ST. JOHNS, September 10. The Commission Government of Newfoundland has disapproved of plans laid before it by the St. Johns Municipal Council to supply funds for charity and for civic improvements by a lottery. The Commission Government has threatened legislative action to prohibit such a course if it considers it necessary. ROYAL BETROTHAL. PARIS, September 11. Arriving by train, Prince George and Princess Marina were immediately surrounded by friends of Princess Marina’s family. Prince George and his fiancee smilingly posed for fifty Press photographers. The Prince leaves for London to-morrow, in the Prince of Wales’s plane. Princess Marina is shopping in Paris for a few days.

DESTROYER LAUNCHED. RUGBY, September 10. Mrs Astley Rushton, wife of ViceAdmiral Astley Rushton, Commander of the Reserve Fleet at Portsmouth, performed the naming ceremony at the launching of the destroyer “Fury,” from the shipyard at East Cowes, Isle of Wight. The Vice Admiral stated that the “Fury” has a cruising radius of about 6000 miles without refuelling, so that she was virtually a cruiser. FRENCH SUPER-LINER. _ PARIS, September 11. Ine Compagnie Generale Trans-At-lantique floated a loan of 120 J million francs to cover the construction of the 79,000 tonner Normandie. The Government guarantees interest under the convention, which provides for an annual subsidy of fifty to one hundred and fifty million francs, in return for mail and other services the Normandie will render.