GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 197, 19 July 1935, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(British Official Wireless.) Received July 18, 11.7 a.m. RUGBY, July 17. The King has approved the appointment of Mr Francis D’Arcy Godolpliin Osborne, Minister at Washington, to be His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See. LONDON, July 17. Tn the Hendon golf tourney Dailey 70 G 0—139 won. Other scores were: Alliss, C. Whiteombe, lit); Brews, Denny, 141; Mitchell, 142; Lacey, 145; Perry, 147. Mr H. L. Brook started from Lympne at 0.35 a.m. He hopes to reach the Cape in four days. He took off excellently from the floodlit aerodrome.. •' GENEVA, July 17. The Secretary-General of the League (M. A vend) lias advised that the League Council will meet between July 25 and August 2 to discuss the Abyssinian situation. VANCOUVER, July 17. A message from Kingston (Ontario) states that the discovery of a new series of biological products called ensols one of which has arrested the development of Carcinoma cancer, and may control it, has been announced by Dr Hendry C. Connell, of Queen’s University. BONNEYVILLE (Utah), July 17. John Cobb, the British racing motorist, to-day. set an official record of 134.85 miles an hour for 24 hours’ driving. WASHINGTON, July 17. The McCarran Bill to repeal the 50 per cent, tax on silver transactions has been approved by the Senate Agricultural Committee. AMSTERDAM, July 17. The bank rate has been further reduced to 3 per cent. .