Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 155, 21 September 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

_BIR JOSEPH COOK.—The ex-High Commissioner for Australia, Sir Joseph J-ook, and Lady Cook were passengers oy the Orsova, which has arrived at Fremantle from London.—A. and N.Z. .SYDNEY LIBEL ACTION*. The JfcPUtY general manager of the electricity department of the Sydney City Council, Mr Silas Y. Maling, has w*ued a writ claiming £20,000 damfor alleged libel against the Sunday News”.—A. and N.Z. STRUCK OIL—It is reported that a Queensland Government oil bore at ttoma has struck a very heavy pressuf* °f petroliferous gas, but the actual value of the strike as to the Presence of oil has not yet been aseertained.—A. and N.Z. ‘JggLUGEP WITH DRUGS.” Europe, America and the Far East is with drugs, ’ declared Earl rv# f n Assembly of the League ations to-day. “Not a single nation, but a combination of nations 1 could cope with the evil,” he said. —A. and N.Z. - AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO. —Prehas appointed Mr. Dwight Morrow, who is intimately connected with the J. P. Morgan Company, as ambassador for the United states in Mexico.—A. and N.Z. STUD STOCK VALUES.—A notable feature of the stud stock sales in connection with the Melbourne Royal jsnow is the low prices realised. The jup Price for a Clydesdale was 67Agns., or a Jersey bull 105gns., and for a Jersey cow 6&gns.—A. and N.Z. defence of japan.—j apanese j nav;;.! manoeuvres will be held in the acitic outside Tokyo Bay for 20 days,. {r“ m sneneing on October 11. They will followed by army manoeuvres, in tat mort- than 100,000 troops will wi , l e Part. The total expenditure that Jl<v be involved is estimated at *• 5,000,000.—A. and N.Z. Labour JOURNAL—A Governgazette notice says a petition for ' hiding up the Labour Daily Newsth er ’ *-*imited, has been presented to ] court by the Sydney City Coun- t a o W iV ch is sr - ated in the notice to be j to the company. The peti- i be Scar’d in the Equity Court i ° n September 27.—A. and N.Z. i Egypt and Britain.—The wafd , bas i iS ®ned a manifesto saying it t iato » for the realisation of the t ? Pasha’s principles and will i c f n *_ amicably for the independence c rnt.ii it will continue friendly pnu i® 3 with foreign Powers, parti- i *wi* 1, *y Britain. Everything points to i .jj'®Section of Nahas Pasha as Pre- c 1116 Chamber of Deputies.— € !