CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

TRINIDAD CONTRACT. (Press Assn— Copyright.) RUGBY, December 15. A contract for harbour works at Port of Spain, Trinidad, hicluding a deep water wharf and dredging the approach charnel and basin, was awarded by Crown agents for the- Colonies to a London firm. Tfte work is expected to take four years, and will involve an expenditure of £950,000. The project is helped by a free grant from the Colonial Development Fund. SINGER’S POVERTY. LONDON, December 17. The “Daily Express” says: The singing of an 80-year-old patient electrified the main women’s ward in the Charing Cross Hospital. It was the voice of Amy Sherwin, who once made twenty thousand pounds a year but who is now penniless. “I was never much of a manager,” she said. Amy will go to a “poor cottage” in Essex on Tuesday. BOW AND ARROW. HOLLYWOOD, December 16. Clara Bow, who once personified “Flaming Youth” in the cinema, today became the mother of a boy. THE YAWNS. NEW YORK, December 16. A message from Morrison, Illinois, states that prominent medical authorities were admittedly baffled to-day by a strange malady afflicting Mrs Harold McKee, who has been yawning unceasingly for a week. The yawns come at the rate of 15 to 20 per minute. Her personal physician estimated that she already has yawned more than 125,000 times. GANGSTER CAPTURED. CHICAGO, December 16. Joe Burns, one of the last surviving members of the notorious Dillinger gang, was captured to-day by police Federal postal inspectors armed with machine guns. The authorities claim that he was one of the master minds in the Brooklyn 427,000 dollar lorry robbery on August 21. SPANISH PRESIDENT’S SON. MADRID, December 17. The courtinartial withdrew the charge of insubordination against Corporal Zamora (son of the President). He was defended by a brother, who is a lawyer. NAVAL TALKS. RUGBY. December 17. It is expected that an announcement will shortly be made, notifying the adjournment of the naval conversations; which have been proceeding in London for the past two months, and it is considered likely that arrangements will also have been agreed upon, providing for their resumption at some 1 future date. The subject is under- ; stood to have been discussed by Sir John Simon, Mr Norman Davis, and Admiral Stanley, of the American naval delegation, and M. Matsudaira, when they played golf together at Walton Heath, on Saturday.