CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1934, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

FOOTBALLER’S COME-BACK. (Press Assn. Copyright) WASHINGTON, November 14. A message from Madison, in Wisconsin, says: “Pat O’Dea, the man who came from Australia 30 years ago to write the greatest chapter in Wisconsin’s football history, and who then disappeared in order to escape the tumult and the shouting, will come back to Madison on Saturday next as an honoured guest. His home-com-ing game will be one between the University of Wisconsin “Badgers” and the State of Illinois. Pat O’Dea is regarded as the greatest kicker who ever wore the cleated. shoe in the United States. For sixteen years he has been given up as dead, and as a victim of the Great War, he having dropped out of sight under the name of “Charles Mitchell.” He did so from the feeling that his football fame was a handicap to him in business. Only a few weeks ago did he reveal his identity, when he was recognised when working in a lumber camp at Westwood, in California.” LOTTERIES BILL. RUGBY, November 14. The Betting Lotteries Bill has already been passed by the Lords. All that remains now is for the Upper House to assent to the minor alterations made in the Commons, and the Bill will be on the Statute Book at the end of the week. It provides for strict control of dog racing tracks, the operating of totalisators will be permitted and it prohibits .large scale lotteries, and provides heavy penalties for distributing and selling tickets.

RHODES FILM LONDON, November 15. The mystery of the British National’s Cecil Rhodes, film has been deepened bj r General Smuts’ denial of interference. He says the film has his entire approval. WESTRALIAN SECESSIONISTS LONDON, November 15. The sessionists announce numerous conferences regarding the procedure. The investigation of their case by the select committee of Parliament, which will hear evidence from the delegation, is much more important than the ceremonial presentation of the petition at the bar of the House, therefore it has been decided to follow the practice usually pursued in connection with petitions, namely, a Commoner places the petition in a bag behind the Speaker’s Chair. The petition then goes to the Standing Committee, whereafter, if certified in proper form, it is placed on the table of the House. The delegation anticipates that a Member will then move for the appointment of a select committee to examine witnesses for- and against the case. The secessionists say that the Imperial Parliament alone has the requisite constitutional and legal powers to deal with the question.