Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 234, 22 December 1927, Page 11

Cable Jottings

_ BRITAIN*S AGRICULTURE. The House of Commons rejected, by 258 votes to 107, the Liberal motion deploring • the Government’s failure to restore Britain’s agricultural position. —A and N.Z, N.S.W. GOLD FIND.—Two prospectors recently discovered a gold-bearing lode near Bombala, on the South Coast. A sample of ore, which was taken, yielded 40 ounces to the ton. —A. and N.Z. SHIPS FOR FRENCH NAVY. —The Chamber of Deputies states that between July 1, 1927, and June 30, 1928, one cruiser, six destroyers, five firstclass submarines, a submarine minelayer, and two scouts will be laid down in continuation of the naval programme of France.—A. and N.Z. BRITISH UNEMPLOYED. The Ministry of Labour has announced that on December 12 the number of unemployed in Britain was 1,125,000. This "as 24.448 less than the week before and 285,178 less than a year ago.— British Official Wireless. TRIBUTE TO MINISTER. A cheque for £3,237, the amount subscribed as a testimonial for the former Minister of Lands in the Lang Ministry, Mr. P. F. Loughlin, who was defeated at the recent election, has been banded to Mr. Loughlin.—A. and N.Z. RUSSIAN MONARCHISTS. The official Soviet agency alleges that a monarchist organisation named the “artisan Detachment of Nicolas NicoJarvitch” (the name of the late Czar), bas been discovered at Odessa. It is stated that the members are guilty of ctTortetic attacks on Soviet officials, nd also of holding up trains and blowup railway lines. All the? members the organisation have been arrested, and N.Z.-Sun.

J!PR CIVIL LlFE.—Australian petty und men serving in the Royal j ,Y y nave been given the privilege of in!r the admiralty’s vocational tralncourses, so as to enable them to a civilian employment when they ,~*® c * lar £ed. The courses embrace j® 1 . ran se, from bricklaying and nv * n ®’ to valeting, but the lastcourße as yet has not attracted an d x2 Ulry * rom an Australian. —A.

AT SIXTY.—In the Commons the Chancellor of f*h Ctleqi,er ’ Winston Churchill, C ? St . of S ivin & pensions to all *** the age of 60, in order to a scrim, em from industry, would be x-e e L, . matter. On the basis of 3l)s the fir®* Would cost £350,000,000 in i 960 J year » rising to £600,000,000 in and N.Z.-Sun.

BUILDING.—During 1927, hniiZi and subur bs of Sydney, of £fi a iP® 8 Were erected at a cost over pVa’/?/??’ an in value of Dr *viou s v° ,o ° o, com pared with the fcl, iidW « ar * The average for each as \ £1.307, an increase of ®o«t since 1914, when the as £642.— A. and N.Z.

i -ggg£Ußg D COMET. British fesslv continue to search fruitB. SteaJL Skjeller «p's comet. Dr. W. Osh Ast.. n ' President of the Bri•ervefl Dar, nOl ? ical Association, ob*'ens sul...?' the sky where calculate, but wifl ecl that the comet should P r the skv » h ° U f result * and the rest k *«rv*tio„. aa °° overclouded for full “° ns —A. and N.Z.-Sun.