Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

ESTATE OF NOVELIST. —The estate of the late Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, the novelist, was proved at £5,478. The whole goes to his wife. —A. and N.Z. ... GIFT TO UNIVERSITY'. —An anonymous gift of £IOO,OOO has been made to Leeds University. The money is to be used for the new library buildings.—British Official Wireless. PRINCE IN WHEAT FOOL. —It is officially announced thfft the Prince of Wales has signed a contract with the Alberta Wheat Pool, covering a 1,000acre crop.—A, and N.Z. * * * SENTENCE OF DEATH —After a new trial George Buckley was found guilty of murdering his wife at Newcastle on April 16, and was recummended to mercy. He was sentenced to death. —A. and N.Z. SPANISH ASSEMBLY.—The rcmuneration of the 360 members of the new Spanish National Assembly, which is to meet in October to frame a constitution and to prepare a budget will be £2 for each sitting.—Sun. * * * STONED AS WITCH. —An Englishwoman, Miss Chester, was mistaken for a witch while she was painting a picture in the Bosnian Mountains. The superstitious women villagers stoned her, and she was taken to hospital. The authorities propose to punish all the villagers.—Sun. | GRAIN FROM RUSSIA.—The Berlin ■ representative of the British United Press Association says he understands that the British Co-operative Wholesale Society has granted credits to Russia to the extent of £ 000.000, in connection with purchases of grain from Russia. —A. and N.Z. RIISSIAN SPY TRIAD —The Ben in- - correspondent oF “The Times says Mitiagin, who was one of the 26 alleged British spies who are to be tried in Deningrad, confessed that n was guilty of espionage and committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor window of his prison. Times. * * * FLOODS IN POLAND.—A cloudburst and persistently heavy rain have caused floods in Poland. Already -0 people have been drowned. Crops have been swept from the fields, beteral oilfields have been cut off and work has ceased. Troops were utilised to persuade the inhabitants of one town to evacuate it. —A. and N.Z.-bun.

BRITISH FISH SUPPLY- —The total value of British fish supplies in 1925 Wns £3O 000,000. Of this sum, £ 19,-jO,OOO represented British captures and £3,000,000 worth came from the Empire, leaving £7,750,000 as the value of foreign supplies, chiefly from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland. —British Official Wireless. TELEVISION TESTS. Ml’.. J. L Baird the British inventor, will give, at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a demonstration in television _ (tlia transmission of vision by electricity), and another in noctovision (vision produced in the darkness by infra-red rays).—British Official Wireless. EINSTEIN THEORY. —The Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh University, Professor E. T. Whittaker, in his address to the mathematical section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, reviewed the situation of relativity and indicated new conundrums. He considered the consequences of Einstein's theory would demonstrate the grand culmination of a movement begun 2,000 years ago by Hero of Alexandria.—A. and N.Z.