CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19165, 23 November 1927, Page 4

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Unemployment in Sydney. Sydney, November 22.—Official figures disclose that the unemployed now total 15,000. This generally is considered to be clue in a largo extent to the restrictive legislation of the late Labour Government, and to the bad season, which has thrown a large number of men out of work in the country districts. Many of these come to the , city only to" find conditions no better than in the rural districts. Wireless League. London, November 21.—The Wireless League is shortly sending a representative to South "Africa, and Australia to further Empire broadcasting and to make the League'an Empire body. Indian Village Wiped Out. Sydney, November 22. —Private advices from .India state that the village of Indukurpet, in the southern province, was wiped out by a cyclone and that cholera is raging. Factory Burnt. Sydney, November 22.—Fire destroyed the factory of Herman Slades, manufacturing chemist, of Rosebery. The damage is estimated at £16,000. Cancer Research. London, November 22—Harold and Norman Sutcliffc, inheritors of the £1,125,000 fortune of the late James Sutcliffe Thomas, have purchased Lumby Hall, a farm of twenty-one acres, and are presenting it to the Yorkshire Cancer Research Council to extend experiments from guiuea pigs and fowls to larger animals, especially pigs.