Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 69, 23 April 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright)

1 VAH10US HAPPEMINGS i GABLE ITEMS OP GENERAL j INTEREST,

Frau Wagner Blind. i' rau Cosinni Wagucr. socoiul wife oi I the conipoter. lias lnst Ihe siglit of j botli eyes. She is R1 years of age. canadian Wheat Poo!. A Winnipcg Wheat Puni offieial. j eoiniiioiiting 011 Ihe Tribuue's story yesterdav, detJared: "lt is made of i vhole clotli and there is nor a wor'd of j truth in it-." He also intiinated that , the rumour was eireulated by interests opfKJsed to tlie puni. Derby Sweepstake, The Stoek Exehange sweep on the Derby, which is to he run at Epsom on ; .1 unc b. is probably the world's largest i sweepstake. It was opened less than ' a ninnth ago and elosed yosterday. ] when. for tlie first tinie in ils history : the siiliseriptions totalled C 1 ,000,000. j Of this suin aliout LIOO.OOO is coh- ; triliuted to eliarities- and ihe balnnce 1 is devoted to prize nionev. 1 j Summer Time. In at eordanee with tlie Summer j Tinie Aet. Suinitier time is in operation in Britain, eloeks heing put forward oue liour dnring tho night. The ehange over seenis likelv to coineide with a spell of oold, wTntry weather, with high north-easterly winds. Yesterdav was oxeepl ionallv warm, with ek-ven hours of sunshine in southern and neutral England, hut to-day the teinjierature fell rapidly and in ] Seotlaml snow and sloct Iiave fallcn. Indian Commission. Lord Buriihain. who. owing to 111- j health, was i'oreed to leave India in advanee of other meinhers of tlie Simon Commis.sion, nrrived in Eng- j land yesterdav. Sir Jolin Sinion and tlie remainder of his eolleaeuos are due I to reflch London next Friday. On his retuni Sir Jolin Simon will engage at ' 01100 in the eleetion eampaign at Spen Yalley. wliere he is the. Liberal enndidate. In view of liis nlisenee owing to the sneeial mission his Comscrvative opponent has witlidrawn. but a Labour eandidate will opnose him.