Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 205, 30 September 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association―Copyright.

, VARIOUS HAPPENINGS CABLE ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Wilkins Expedition. Sir Hubert Wilkins, two aviators and an engineer sailed for Monte A'ideo en route to Deception Island to begiu the second trip to tbe Antarctic. / Naval Estimates, Tbe Times' Paris correspondent states that tlie French Chamber's finance comniittee passed 'the 1930 naval estimates for £20,688,000, £1,584,000 luore tban in 1929 Legion Of Honour. Tbe French Embassy bas announced that the Government bas awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honoiir to Mr Kellogg in recognition of his acbievements in the peace negotiations towards the outlawry of war. English Cricketers. "We have a fine team and a goorl set of fellows," was the farewell of Gilligan (captain) when the Maryleboue cricketers left for. Australia. Mesdarnes Legge and Woolley. and the latter's tliree-year-old daughter accompanied them. Car Catches Fire, As a result of a saloon car overturning and catching fire on the Great North road near Harrogate, three women, including a motlier and lier daughter, were incinerate'd. The terrific heat prevented any attempt at rescue. Non-stop Flights. Captains Costes and Bellecoute left Le Bourget on Friday in. an attempt to beat^'tlie world 's 11011-stop air record,. their objective .being • Harbin. The.v are using a modified Breguet machine, equipped with a 600 horse power Hispano Suiza engine. Tiger of France. AJ^ien celebratiug his 88th birthday, M, Clemenceau told a party of guests that tliey must quit eavly, as he cannot alford to lose valuable time. He is preparing a hook, whieli will be published in October. The "Tiger" always rises at six in the morning and promptly resumes his manuscrip in a bold, firm hand, from whicli his tvoist immediately makes copies. Erratic Moyement. •. In the face of an unexpectedly large increase of 129,000,000 dollars in brokers' loans to a new liigh loari recovd, stocks moved erratipally with the advantage to the bears in a spirited tussle in New York. Weakness was accentuated in the last hour, when fresh selling followed a feeble mid-afternoon rally. Leading stocks closed two to ten points off, with much higher losses registered in lesser issues.