Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 137, 31 August 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

COLLAPSE OF BARRACKS. — Eighteen Italian soldiers were killed and 40 were injured when Leghorn barracks collapsed.—A. and X.Z.-Sun. MR. BALDWINS HOLIDAY. —Th 3 Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, with Mrs. Baldwin, who left London on Monday morning for Aix-les-Bains, will stay there for about three weeks. —Britisly Official Wireless. STRIKE AT LITHGOW. —There are 1 now 2,000 men idle at the Lithgoxv j Ironworks, New South Wales, and apparently there is no hope of a settlement, although the Government has j dispatched a conciliator to the scene | of the dispute.—A. and N.Z. VICTORIAN TRAGEDY. —Mrs. Wi 1 - ! kinson, wtfo was seriously wounded j bv her husband, Francis Wilkinson, on their farm at Stanhope, Victor .a. on 1 August 25, has succumbed to her inj juries. Wilkinson and his child were found dead at the time of the tragedy. —A. and N.Z. SOVIET NEWS AGENT. —The Paris correspondent of the Central News Agency reports that the representative of the Tass Agency (Russian news seivice) has been ordered to leave France. I He is accused of sending false reports to Moscow regarding the Sacco-\ anzetti riots. —A. and N.Z.

GERMAN’S ARMS. —The Paris correspondent of the -Times” says a German delegate again surprised the International Parliamentary Conference. IA former Minister, Herr Sollmann, deplored the fact that while German;was compulsorily disarmed, other Powers were feverishly arming.— I Times. RIOT AT C AWN PORE. —In a riot ! at Cawnpore one was killed and 100 in- ; jured. Armoured cars are patrolling. I The dispute arose out of a most trivial question of payment between a ! Hindu and a Moslem shopkeeper.— j Sun. N.Z. CRICKETERS. —The New South Wales Cricket Board of Control has acceded to the proposal that the New Zealand cricket team now touring Enc- ; 1 land shall play a four days’ match l | against -New South "Wales at Sydney, commencing on October 28.—A. and 1 N.Z.