Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 11

Cable Jottings

*EW AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY The newly-opened Broken Hill line Provides an alternative route from the Queensland border through to West Australia.—A. and N.Z. SEIZED BY BRIGANDS.—The Casacorrespondent of the “Daily Mail’ reports that the captured memr®T s of General Steeg’s family are P? ln & held prisoners in chains by the Moroccan tribesmen, pending negotiations for their ransom.—Sun. MR- AMERY IX MELBOURNE.*jj r L. S. Amery and Mrs. Amery Were tendered a warm reception on P le ir arrival yesterday. They were met \r S e Pr * me Minister, the Rt. Hon. S. n ~? ruce ’ an< * both Federal and State Politicians. Later the visitors motored 10 Geelong.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. .KINGDOM OF IRAQ.—The ManJates Commission has received the reregarding Iraq, in which it is r * e<l . th at Turkey and Iraq have beceS^? lncere The revenue exTh aed the estimates by over 8 per cent. . P e °Ple have shown surprising admstrative capacity. Labour troubles n . Prac tically non-existent, and em- ** is Plentiful and wages are Kooa.-—a. and N.Z. THE beloved VAGABOND. The • Uatralian. Dudley Glass’s, opera, “The Va gabond,” has moved from Th eat 6of York’s Theatre to the New da*ni*« re i Several new songs and a c t 8 ” ave been added, and the last tommI e ? rrltten * London newspapers men* n 5 appreciating the improveeat.—a. and N.Z. -IgNEY NPRv'wBAPEP. MERGER. nounce^'h n ? y " Dailv Telegraph" anriirecrrJ? • at ne g°tiations between the the Svh S ° f the “Daily Telegraph” and "Sun” have resulted in a lion of evolved for the form acompany to take over the 4. u n( j y. and allied publications.—