Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 185, 26 October 1927, Page 9

Cable Jottings

RED LEADERS OUTED. —The controlling commission of the Russian Communist Party has expelled Trotzky and Zinovieff for refusing to abandon factional strife. —A. and N.Z. NEW GUINEA GOLD. —A shipment of '17.000 ounces of gold, valued at £42,500, has arrived at Sydney by the steamer Montoro from Edie Creek and the neighbouring goldfields of New Guinea. This is the richest shipment so far received from the New Guinea fields.—A. and N.Z. NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS. —The last rail has been laid on the line between Sydney and Broken ITill. This reduces the distance between the two cities to 699 miles, compared with the old rail joumef’. via Adelaide, of 1,408 miles.—A. and N.Z. DEATH FOR SPIES.—The Military Court has sentenced to death Vladimir and Cyril Prove and Orepakoff, and sentenced the other two of the accused, who were charged with espionage on behalf of Britain, to imprisonment for two years.—A. and N.Z LILLE MEMORIAL.—At Lille on Sunday General Sir Richard Hacking, who commanded the British troop* which relieved Lille in 1918, -unveiled a memorial tablet in the Church of Saint Maurice in commemoration of the 1,000,000 dead soldiers of the British Empire who fell in the Great War. —British Official Wireless. STORM IN NEW SOUTH WALKS. —A severe hail and rain storm, accompanied by a wind of hurricane force, caused great damage to vegetable crops on the Clarence River. Crops of potatoes and lucerne suffered severely, and birds and fowls were killed by hail. Trees were blown down and farm buildings unroofed. —A. and N.Z. FATAL CINEMA FIRE. The deaths in the Tammerfors cinema fire now total 21. Some of the occupants of the dress circle, with their clothes ablaze, flung themselves down into the crowded stalls. This increased

the panic which had begun when the film operator’s assistant rushed out shouting "fire.”—A. and N.Z. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. —The State Cabinet has d«cided that Parliament shall be opened by Commission on Thursday, November 3. The Speaker will be elected, and on the following day the Governor. Sir Dudley de Chair, will perform the ceremonial opening. Night sittings, which were abolished under the La nr regime, will be reintroduced. —A. and N.Z.