Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 150, 15 September 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

SEVERE EARTHQUAKE. An earthquake occurred on the coast of the Blazk Sea. Thirteen persons were killed a.nd 35S were injured. Among: the damaged buildings was the late Tsar’s palace at Livadia, now a peasants' sanatorium.—Sun. MURDERER’S APPEAL. The Marseilles murderer. Dr. Bougrat, who was sentenced to death for killing a patient named Jacques Rumebe after ■ i sensational trial last March, appealed against the sentence, but his appeal lias been Jismisscd.—A. and N.Z. MUSIC BY PRISONERS.—Th o "Daily Mail” says privileged prisoners are receiving musical instruction at Pnrkhurst Prison, vhere an orchestra and a chore-. 1 class have been formed to assist in the services in the chapel and at concerts. —Sun. ARREST OF COMMUNIST—A n active French Con munist, Paul Vili- * re, landed secretly from a sailingboat on a lonely beech near Folkestone. He was arrested it a meeting in Trafalgar Square, London, and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, I*> be followed oy deportation, for an offence under the immigration laws.—A. and N.Z. CASINO CLOSED.—The palace of the late Sultan Mai mud VI., the Yildiz Kiosk, at Constantinople, which was opened in September last year as a municipal casino and dancing hall, has been closed by the prefecture of police in pursuance of an order by the judicial authorities, in tpite of the contract held by the Itali; n owners of the palace.—A. and N.Z. DRAINING ENGLAND. —The British Royal Commission which was s=et up to investigate land drainage schemes proposes to visit Holland week to examine the methods of reclamation arid drainage that. are adopted by Dutch engineers. It is estimated that there are about 1.730,000 acres of land in England and Wales which need arterial drainage systems.—British Official Wireless. IMPERIAL COMMERCE. Mora than 100 delegates from British Chambers of Commerce will leave Southampton for South Africa on Friday, in order to attend the 31th congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, which will be opened in Capetown on October 4. The congress is held triennial!}’* alternately in London and in one of the Dominions, Crown colonies or India. —British 013cisd Wireless.,