Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 167, 5 October 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

SYDNEY TOWN HALL. The City Council of Sydney has approved additions to the Town Hall, costing £250,0(0. —A. and N.Z EIRE IN N.S.W.—Fire destroyed Marsh Bros.’ tannery tit Granville. The damage is estimated at £15,000. —A and NJi, AUSTRALIAN FLOOD-S.—The floodwa:ers in Gippsland are receding. The damage is not estimated so far, but it must be very extensiv e. The weathei is line.—A. and N.Z. NATURAL OIL BORE.—Reports from the Roma oil bore in Queensland continue to be satisfactory. Oil obtained from the bore- has been used to run motor-cars in Brisbane. —A atjl N.Z. LIVERPOOL'S WOMAN MAYOR. — Miss Margaret Beavan, of Liverpool, known locally as 'the little mother,’ wfco has devoted her life to social work has been elected to the Lord Mayoralty of that city. She is the first woman ti attain that office in Liverpool.—Suri. COLONIAL FIN ANCES.—Lieu ten am-Colonei S r George Schuster, Tin anei&l Secretary to the Government oil Sudan, has been appointed econo mic and financial adviser to the Sec rslary of State for the Dominions anil Colonies.— British Official Wireless. N.S.W. FINANCES. The State Treasurer announces that the finance i Of New South Wales for the first three months of this year show an exces.s °f expenditure over revenue to the ex ■ tent of £:!,474,000. The revenue w as £ 9,293,000 and the expenditure f 11,767,000.—A. and N.Z. LOWER wages" IN ITALY. —Th ! Indian Government has sanctioned a reduction lri wages throughout the country of 10 to 20 per cent. This is th:) result of an intimation from the employers that a reduction is necessary in P'ier to bring the cost of production irrio harmony with the quotation for •terling.—Sun. NRVV NILE BARRAGE. —In connection with the construction of the new MUTage on the Nile at Nag Hamadi a d'ra of Aberdeen engineers. John Hen’wi'son and Company, is to erect th) Wwld'a largest cable-way. This will have ; span of 3.100 ft. and will use ti > miles of steel rope. —Sun. FRENCH MUTINY. —The French Minister of Marine, M. Leygues, report s tie 76 participants in the prison Jflutinj- on at Toulon, wh> , ‘omplained about their food, hav i Jjfen transferred to stricter confinement. Y» official inquiry has not been com - pleted, but it has been clearly indithat Communist intrigues wer > 1 * sponsible.—Times. WOMEN SKKKMtEFORM. —The Natiooal Council of Women of Britan, includes 145 societies, is to meet at Bournemouth on October 11. Th o Principal motion will be that the coun- < ‘ u concentrate upon the one great quesUcri of national reform, and each year make a united effort to secure the of reform. —A. ami iX DILEMMA. —A dilemma jjjrose in connection with the visit to *tt>:-occo of the Kins and Queen if "Pain, because the date fixed was the •’lrish Day of Atonement. The rabb: s aemded that. Hebraic tradition permit - the welcoming of an anointed Kins J® the bearer of blessings. Therefore declared that Jews might take