Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 9

Cable Jottings

QUEENSLAND WHEAT. The director of Agriculture estimates that :he wheat yield for the present sea®n will be over 3.000,000 bushels. —A. rad JJ.Z. MR. AM ELY'S Tor It. —Mr. Amery, s Tretary of titate for the Dominions, -Ida arrived at Launceston with liis *rty. He had an enthusiastic re-'-Pfion on arriving to tour Tasmania. -•L and N X

.MR DEFENCE.—A number of Haw-Rolls-Royce daylight bombers, at more than L 300,000, are now y ln K completed in Britain. It is into equip four home-defence voadrons and for this purpose 70 or u machines will be required.—A. and

.Fascist exiled.—signor coiisi formerlv secretary of the Turin jjyjh of the Italian Fascist Party, U n ex P e "ed from the party and . failed, owing to his anti-Fascist acavuies—a. and N.Z.-Sun.

frPEED RECORD.— Before Sir Alan ■ r'“\ rr ] leaves England to circumnavi- „ Africa in a Short Rolls-Royce , >( A'o°at he will attempt to break the * Okuk recor d for a seaplane carrying an., J - ' 1 ® Present record is 109.2 an hour.—A. and N.X.

Sim” taking over the "Daily ■L, ■ Po provides for the share--1 breT in the "Telegraph” receiving .J" Proportion of the value of their :scares in cash, the balance re*»S as share interest in the new •»Pany.-_ A . and x z

-IREasury \vi\tipai.i,s The wS T J«‘«<iry's receipts for the year ‘■•Ustnn- 000.000 offered by Lady •sbana fr ~ m th ® estate of her late '*!D«a d . Th er p is also £1,600,000 in -k'4‘ he 'ate Viscount Cowdray, r "»l the , si .... of .Mrs. Dougat. non, £312,000 from that of the t4 .«HIoJ? U , esS of Lansdowne, and •! Wli, 0 tr °ni the estate of the Earl —A. and N.Z.