Cabie Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 187, 28 October 1927, Page 9

Cabie Jottings

BETTING TAX. This year tlie British Treasury will receive between £3,000.000 and £ 4,000,000 in betting ks*—British Official Wireless. NEW RAIL ROUTE.—The newly - opened railway line from Sydney to Broken Hill provides an alternative route from the Queensland border through to Western Australia.—A. and N.Z. .FASCIST EXPELLED.—CoIisi Rossi, of the Turin Fascisti, has expelled from the party and anished owing to anti-Fascist activity. and N.Z. mails stolen-.—officials of the and Oriental Company, re- ‘ n ng to the theft of some of the w St ?5 ed mail from the liner Cathay, . 1 the Pillage must have ocn re< * between Fremantle and Syd- •’ an< * riot earlier. —A. and N.Z. TNIC'NS MAY Join.—A meeting in 5 J f pr '. ?senta tives of all the unions «.i r °n and metal trades favour '’nin 1 . on of all the metal trades - tons -nto one union. Steps will be ® immediately to give effect to resolution, which is one of the ttatift move * toward union amalgas2 n ma<le in recent years.—A. and JSabqkratkp. Yesterday a tY B*'’ 8 *'’ fr »«n Vienna stated that 260 jp V) ,‘l' ers were killed when a Serat.;^°star train fell from a precipice, trail * p(xrt denied. It was a goods trl •»>f ncl t%vo men were killed and ne injured.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. , PARTY IT A III) IF.—The fcl?" the Labour Party. Mr. his * y MacDonald, in a speech in jjwnwituency, Aberavon. said his lac * n <4 n. general election % k ,lr “ U P. and he did not care theip «J w il * They were crippled in I ast_ c h a nces, but were more entliusi- ! lc than ever.--A an d N.Z. FROM GAOL.—S ea n ’. It ho on August 25 was dis- . been detained in S tourdp? th 1 0? tho aEeged conspiracy tevin (vnj l6 late Vice-President. Mr. ' 3 j ■ l ssins. and who was on re_ arrested on a general •fie PiiV.i; co * ls Piracv to murder, under " Us *'d fr ft fea i ety Aot * was yesterday and Nz Mountjoy p rison, Dublin. merger. that y n “ Da - Uy Telegraph" anrotors Hegotiations between the :e Syd nev V.lf “9 ai,y Telegraph” and h -mo i3Un " have resulted in a 2 n of s ev °l for the formagn c °mpany to take over the an< * publications.—