Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 204, 17 November 1927, Page 11

Cable Jottings

SALE OF SHIPS.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, announced in the Commonwealth House of Representatives that tenders for the Commonwealth Shipping: Line would be called at an early date. —A. and N.Z. NAVAL APPOINTMENT. —It Is announced that Commander Pope, of the Australian Navy, has been appointed to the battle-cruiser Hood, for duty on the staff of the Admiral commanding the Atlantic battle-cruisers. —A. and N.Z. ORE AT LONDON.—Two towns, each the size of Exeter, ■with 60,000 inhabitants. have sprung up inside London, Jo the north and the south of the T hame*. within a year, according to the Metropolitan Water Board, which estimates London’s population now as ‘.166,000.—-Sun. §IR R. HORNE’S TOUR. —Sir Robert Horne, who was formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer, and is now Conservative member of the House of Commons for the Hillhead Division of Glasgow, is a passenger from London N Australia. —A. and VOUXG WOMEN VOTERS.—The Belfast correspondent of “The Times” says the Prime Minister. Viscount ~.£ tll® a von» stated in the House that ' :6 fiovernment’s Bill abolishing proWal representation would also emoqy a clause to extend the franchise . Wotae n at the age of 21, if a similar _ tension .were adopted by the British —Times. waterfront dispute. The Workers' Federation has den - . declare “black” all coal arsrmtvF a * Sydney from the north and c °asts for transhipment by inter6or overseas vessels. The trouble employment of casual hien a labourers in loa(^in S vessels. The • demanded preference to unionists. ■V and N.Z.