Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

MOTOR RACING. —Benoist won the Grand Prix of Europe on the Moir.a track (Italy), averaging 90 3-8 miles an hour. —A. and N.Z. TURKISH ELECTIONS. —The Turkish elections resulted in the return of all the Kemalist candidates. There will be no official opposition in the new Assembly.—A. and N.Z. WORLD POPULATION.—The World Population Conference. _t its final session, decided to create permanent international union to collect data on the subject from world-wide sources.—A. and N.Z. QUAKE AT DARWIN. —A telegram received at Sydney from Port Darwin says a sharp earthquake shock was experienced there early yesterday morning. The town was shaken but no damage was done. —A. and N.Z. POPPY DAY’ AT HOME. —Earl Haig states that the record sum of £435,000 was collected by the sale of poppies on Poppy Day last year. Since the day was instituted in 1922, £1,749.000 has been raised on behalf of ex-service-men’s charities. —British Official Wireless.. NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTION. —The New South Wales Executive Council j'esterday decided that the j writs for the general election shall he issued on Saturday and that polling ! day shall be October 8. The latter is ! the date originally fixed. —A. and ; x.z. BEAM WIRELESS.—The beam wireless service between England and India is to be opened on Tuesday. It will place London in direct wireless communication with Bombay and will be available for telegrams to India. Burma, Ceylon, Irak, the Persian Gulf and Siam. Press messages will cost 2id a word. —British Official Wireless. AX OLD VINTAGE. —Eight thousand bottles of Tokay 200 years old. from a royal cellar founded in Austria in 1673, have been brought to England. They will be sold privately. Their estimated value is £25.000. The bottles are flagons of handblown glass, I bearing the royal arms of Saxony. | They are worth £1 each. —A. and