CABLE BREVITIES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2780, 26 November 1931, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES

NEW ZEALAND TRADE. Australian Press Assu—United Service? (Received 10.45 a.m.) CANBERRA, To-day; It is officially stated that it is regarded as unlikely that any move will be made to revise the existing trade treaty between Australia and New Zealand until after the forthcoming Empire Economic Conference, and until the new basis of Empire preference, to be laid down at that conference, has been formulated. CANADIAN NEGOTIATIONS. OTTAWA, Tuesday. Mr H. H. ,Stevens, Canadian Minister of Trade and Customs, will leave for Honolulu by the Aorangi from Vancouver on December 9. He will confer with Mr W. Downio Stewart, New Zealand Minister of Customs, regarding a. trade treaty. HORNIBROOK RETIRES SYDNEY, Tuesday. Mr P. M. Hornibrook announces his retirement from first-class cricket. He' says he was unfairly treated by the Queensland selectors in regard to the match against the South Africans, SEIZURE OF LIQUOR. NEW YORK, Tuesday Customs agents seized one of the Sun Oil Company’s tankers at a dock. She was loaded with £IOO,OOO worth of liquor. The agents also captured 60 prisoners and seized the vessel, which is valued at £200,000 also five large vans. Apparently the customs officials were informed of the liquor cargo by a rival’ smuggling organisation. , SPANISH CONSPIRACY. MADRID, Tuesday. A priest and two others have been sentenced to deportation to the island of Fernando Po, and others have been fined in connection with the recent plot when the Dictator’s son, Jose de Rivera, was arrested, and later, released.