Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

RAILWAY STATION' Flßl^. —The railway station at Wallangarra, on the Queensland border, was destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at «£ I*B,ooo. —A. and N.Z. OLD AWARD RESTORED.—Mr. j ustice Betby has restored the weekl y hiring system in the awards of the ongineers and blacksmiths of Australia. —A. and N.Z. MAMARI REPAIRED. —A message from Buenos Aires states that the steamer Mamari, which struck an iceberg, has been repaired temporarily. She is expected to depart for London to-morrow. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. BIG IRONWORKS IDLE. —As a result of the refusal of their claim for increased wages 1,600 employees of Hoskins’s ironworks at Lithgow, New South Wales, struck. This has rendered the whole works idle.—A. and N.Z. FIRE ON STEAMER. —The steamer Otterpooi arrived at Port Adelaide yesterday from Britain with fire smouldering in three of her holds. The crew has ha.d a terrible experience in fighting the fire and fumes since August 11.—A. and N.Z. BLAME FOR DEAD MAN.—The offlcial inquiry into the disaster to a train on the mountain line at Chamoumx, near Mont Blanc, resulted in the blame being laid on the dead driver. It was asserted that a mistake in driving caused the jolt that brought about derailment. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. GREAT JEWEL THEFT— M r a James Snowden, a leading society woman, wore jewels valued at £ 20.000 :.n an amateur musical revue at Long Island, New York. She left them on her dressing table, and went home. By morning the jew?ls had vanished, and the thief left no clue.—A. and N.Z. PRINCES IN CANADA. —A message from Winnipeg says the Prince of Wales and Prince George arrived there on Saturday morning. They were greeted by the Lieutenant-Gov-ernor of Manitoba, Mr. T. A. Burrows, and civic officials, and warmly welcomed by the people. —British Official Wireless. TYPHOON IN JAPAN. —The most disastrous typhoon experienced in Japan since 1923 visited Nagasaki and Kochi, on Shikokui Island. At NagaI saki 4,000 houses were submerged and many bridges were washed away. Fifty persons are dead or injured. The damage is estimated at £200,000. Th* casualties at Kochi total 30. —A. and NZ SACCO-VANZETTI FUNERAL.— ' One hundred thousand people watchec the funeral of the Italians, Sacco and Vanzetti, as it passed in drizzling rail! at Boston to the crematorium at Forest Hills, where a eulogy was delivered. The ashes of the two men are to b« given to their widows. In London t crowds met in protest against th€ i execution, and the American flag wai i torn to shreds. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. MURDER AND ROBBERY.—Mr Judson Pratt was shot dead while h< . was delivering a pay-roll valued a, . nearly £I,OOO in New York. Th* * policeman who usually accompaniei i Mr. Pratt when he drew large sum . of money for conveyance to the firn 1 was arrested. He had a new motor , car, and had spent Saturday eveninj at night clubs, where he expended j large amount in tips. The policemai . claims to have inherited a legacy.— - A. and N.Z. WOMEN KILLED IN WAR-—Th “Daily News” say's that the suggestioi • to erect a tomb near the Unknow: ~ Warrior in Westminster Abbey, a* ; i. memorial to the nurses and English - women killed in the war raises th ; question whether there is such a thin! *, as an unknown woman in the sense o the Unknown Soldier. Many con side s ; that the Unknown Warrior typifies 1 who lost their lives in the war. —Sc^