CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 November 1934, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

BULGARIAN DEFAULT. (Press Assn. Copyright) SOFIA, November 16. The Bulgarian Cabinet have decided to suspend the foreign loan payments of the Government. LOTTERIES BILL. LONDON, November 15. The House of Lords agreed to the amendments made by the House of Commons in the Betting and Lotteries Bill. Lord Londonderry emphasised that, though a citizen as under the present law would be able to send and share tickets in the Irish Sweep or any other lottery, this would not give the right to sweep promoters to flood the country with tickets. The Bill represented a determination to restrict the flow of money to sweepstakes out of the country. The Government would take the necessary steps to achieve that object.

JAPANESE REPRESENTATIVES TOKIO, November 16. The swimmers, Kiyokawa and Sakagami, sailed, to-day. for Australia, and are confident of holding their own. Representatives of the Boy Scout movement also sailed, taking gifts for the scouts at Sydney and Melbourne, of gigantic hollow paper carp, which is the Japanese symbol of manly spirit to overcome all obstacles, and flown from poles at millions of households throughout Japan, at the boys’ festival on May 5. PROCESSION STANDS RUGBY, November 15. Special stands for spectators to witness the processions from Westminster Abbey on the occasion of the wedding of the Duke of Kent are being erected in Parliament Square and elsewhere along the route. Special stands and buildings will be decorated with the Duke’s emblems and the national flags of Greece and Denmark.