CABLES INI BRIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16377, 27 June 1927, Page 12

CABLES INI BRIEF

U.S. Immigration The Amori(‘an immigration quotas of 25 fount vies have boon exhausted for I lio fiscal year ending dune dll, including Britain and Northern Ireland, Irish Free Stale, and New Zcala ml. London ’Varsity’s New Site After seven years’ negotiations the University of London, at a cost of t'dl’d.lnio, lias purchased the Bloomsbury site from the Duke of Bedford as its headquarters instead of the imperial Institute. Wireless and the Eclipse Dr. Vauderpol 'is collaborating with Professor K. V. Appleton Alper, of the famous Dutch wireless station, Eindhoven, in sending out steady Morse signals on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, on a wave length of 30.2 metres to enable experimenters to note the effect of the eclipse on the strength of wireless signals. Every Little Helps The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges as a contribution toward the reduction of the British debt to America (£000,000,000), the receipt of £950 from an Englishman who has lived in the tinted States for half a* •century. This is his fourth contribution of the same amount during recent years. Released -from Prison - Captain Brining, of Liverpool, who was thrust into a Venezuelan prison to await his trial following the collision of his steamer, the Niuian, with another vessel, has been released. He will be con lined in the house of the British Consul pending the trial. Sydney Exhibition in 1931 A .Dominions Exhibition, primarily advertising Australia, will be held at Centennial Park, Sydney, in 1931, under the auspices of the Commonwealth Government and by arrangement with the New South Wales Government. Over £1,121,000 Profit Associated Newspapers, Ltd. (proprietors of the London Daily Mail, Evening News, and Weekly Dispatch) announces a profit of £1,121,908 for the past year. Bookmakers’ Sympathy London bookmakers have passed a resolution sympathising with Sir Henry Busby Bird, who was fined £SO because his horse, which was the favorite in a race at Hurst Park, was not brought to the course. Sir Henry says lie was the dupe of turf ‘ ‘ crooks. ’ ’ How India is trovemed Lord Reading,. the ex-Yiceroy of India, has been offered the chairmanship of the Statutory Commission to inquire into the Government, of India Act of 1919. If he does not accept the post, Lord Ronnldshav, who was A.D.C. to Lord Curzon when the latter was Viceroy of India, will be invited to take it. Tlu 1 commission will sit in 1929, and will .also consider the possibility of further extending the principle of self-government in India. Color Line on Stage Complaining that the wholesale importation of colored artists into Britain was laying idle increasing numbers of talented Britishers, the Variety Artists’ Federation has started a campaign to induce British managers to cease importing colored companies. The federation has no objection to single or double turns by colored performers. Won’t Try “Comeback” Bombardier Wells, llie retired boxer, has withdrawn from his proposed fight with Sandwina, the German heavyweight, which had been the subject. of adverse comment. George Cook, the Australian, will now meet Sandwina.