GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 6, 4 December 1937, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES.

Received December 4, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 3,

Deaths from the typhoid epidemic at Croydon, which is now regarded as having passed the point of maximum severity, total 14. Compensation of £85,316 has been paid for animals suffering from foot and mouth disease slaughtered in November.

The Union Steam Ship Company’s coaster Wanaka was launched on the Clyde and christened by Mrs Heath, wife of the New South Wales AgentGeneral.

The retiring Danish Minister in London, Count Ahelfeldt Laurvig, has loft London for his new winter home in Madeira.

The London Gazette announces that the three brothers of the Marquess of Huntly are to hold the rank of sons of the Marquess with a courtesy title of Lord, as would have been due had their father survived his uncle. MUNICH, Dec. 3. The condition of Marshal Ludendorff has become worse owing to complications of the heart. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 3. In the chess championship, Euwe has surrendered the 24th game to Alekhine. ' „ EDMONTON, Dec. 3. Dr P. M. Campbell, the anti-Social Credit candidate, has won the Lethbridge. scat in the first by-election since tlie Aberliart Government came into power. He defeated Mr A. J. Bitmap by 3980 votes to 3210. CAPETOWN, Dec. 3. The United Party Congress has unanimously passed a resolution that a South-West African mandate is essential to the Union’s safety, and the Union’s policy of controlling the region was unalterable. The only alternative was the mandate becoming a fifth province. . (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 3. Queen Mary visited London House at St. Pancras and opened the, first block of new buildings of the hostel for British men students from overseas Dominions and Colonies. The actual production of steel at the new metal industries at Jarrow starts on Monday with a plant valued t £IOO,OOO. Half this capital for the new industry lias been provided through the Lord . Nuffield Trust, and there is a stipulation that 95 per cent of the men employed must be recruited locally. . The total amount applied tor m tenders for £50,000,000 Treasury bills was £84,430,000. The average rate per cent, for bills at three months is 18s 2-16 d, as against 15s 0.22 d a week ago. j. The National Trust announces that, through the generosity of Colonel Prior Wandesforde, it has come into possession of about 134 acres of land at Swaledale, one of the most beautiful dales in Yorkshire.