Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 138, 1 September 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

COLD STORAGE.- —The international cold storage conference, arranged to be hbld. ip. Rome in September, has been postponed, till April, 1928. —Sun. AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION.— The Royal Commission set up to inquire into the Constitution of the Commonwealth. will commence its sittings on September 19.—A. and N.Z. FIRE ON STEAMER.—The fire on the steamer Otterpool at Adelaide has been extinguished and the discharging of her cargo has been commenced. —A. and N.Z. TELEVISION TEST. Princess Mary has consented to act as a sitter at a demonstration of television. Her Royal Highness will have an image of her £ace transmitted over telephone wires to a screen in London.—Sun. SENTENCE OF DEATH. A verdict of guilty was returned in the trial for murder of Norman Clyde McPherson. He was charged with the murder of Margaret Quin, a waitress, who was shot in Sydney on June 16 while on her way home. Sentence of death was passed.—A. and N.Z. REWARD FOR INFORMER. —The man, Evan Clark, who was the chief witness at the trial of the murderers of two detectives at Kalgoorlie, has been granted £I,OOO by the High Court for giving information which led to the conviction of the two accused men. —A. and N.Z. TURKISH REST DAY.—In order to conform to international custom, also for financial and economic reasons, Turkey has adopted Sunday as a day of rest. In conjunction with other Moslem countries Turkey in the past has reserved Friday for worship. In future Sunday will be renamed Friday. —Sun. SIERRA LEONE SLAVES. The London “Daily News” says it understands that communications are in progress between Whitehall and Sierra Leone which will lead to the drafting of a new ordinance abolishing the right to recapture slaves. The occasion may be seized to abolish slavery altogether. —Sun. SCIENTISTS AT LEEDS. Two thousand five hundred scientists from all parts of the world, half of whom are women, have assembled at Leeds for the conference of the British Association. Sir Arthur Keith will preside, and in his address he will reaffirm the Darwinian theory of man’s descent from monkeys.—Sun. AUSTRALIAN LABOUR SPLIT.— Mr. P. J. Minahan, formerly a prominent Labour member, says he has left the party which is now controlled by Communists, and that he will oppose the Prime Minister, Mr. Lang, for the latter’s seat (Auburn) at the New South Wales election. —A. and N.Z.