Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 179, 19 October 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

FIVE-DAY "WEEK.—The report of the Sydney town clerk discloses that all the City Council employees work a five-day week of 332 hours.—A. and N.Z. NEGRO BOXER’S ARREST.—On the arrival of the steamer Maheno from Wellington at Sydney yesterday, a coloured boxer, Joe Hall, was arrested on a charge of being a prohibited immigrant.—A. and N.Z. STOWAWAY FINED.—A young Englishman, John Howard, who pleaded guilty to stowing away on the steamer Maheno, which arrived at Sydney yesterday from Wellington, was fined £lO. —A. and N.Z. SWISS PROTEST.—The Swiss Government is deeply xoerturbed about a frontier incident. A party of Italian militia arrested a Swiss workman on Swiss soil and detained him for two days across the border. The /Government has entered a strong protest.— Sun. ABOLISHING LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. —The Premier, the Hon. E. N. Rhodes said that a special session was possible to pass legislation making operative the authority to abolish the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia, given to-day in a Privy Council decision.—A. and N.Z. GERMAN COAL STRlKE.—Seventy thousand German soft coal miners struck on Monday. They are regarded as the worst-paid workers in the country. They receive 6s 6d for a shift of nine and a-half hours. Grave industrial consequences are feared.—A. and N.Z. ITALIANS ARRESTED.-—Twenty Italians were arrested in a police raid at Nice yesterday. All were alleged agitators and were reported as having been seen attending Communist meetings. Photographs and finger prints will be taken, after which they will probably be deported.—A. and N.Z. MANY MEN MADE IDLE.—As an outcome of a strike by the moulders, who are demanding increased pay, the South Australian Railway Commissioners announce that the whole of the Islington workshops, except the rail and motor works, will be closed down. Nearly 2,000 men will be idle. —A. and N.Z. MURDER OF FAMILY.—The newspapers report that a girl of 16, who lived at Zagazig, 40 miles nortli-east of Cairo, because her family objected to her projected marriage, poisoned her mother and her two sisters and four brothers with sweets. One sister who survived denounced the murderess.— Sun. SUGAR-MILL CLASH.—A serious clash at the South Johnstone sugar mill (Queensland) between the rival factions resulted in an ex-striker being seriously wounded by a revolver bullet. Intense bitterness has prevailed at the mill, between those employees who were engaged during the strike and the ex-strikers.—A. and N.Z. BRITISH ECONOMY. —N ewspapers in Britain attach some importance to a visit which Mr. Montagu Norman. Governor of the Bank of England, paid to the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin. They say they understand that the visit was a prelude to renewed efforts by the Economy Committee of the Cabinet to effect economies in national expenditure.—British Official Wireless. OIL-STRIKE IN IRAQ.-yThe Turkish Petroleum Company, in which the Anglo-Persian and the Royal Dutch groups are interested, has struck oil with a bore at Kirkuk, the first success achieved. The well is giving from 5,000 to 7,000 tons of oil a day. The flow has been set on fire until it can be be got under control. —A. and N.Z. AIMS OF LABOUR.—“I know of very little difference between the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party, the Left wing and the Right wing,” said Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P.. at a. mass meeting of his .constituents at Burnley. “The aims and purposes of the Labour Party are. the same to all its representatives, hut some people are anxious to find diffori ences where none exist.”—A. and N.Z.