Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 9

Cable Jottings

CHEQUE DUTY.—The Victorian Legislative Council has rejected the Stamps Bill, under which it was proposed to increase the stamp duty on cheques from Id to 2d.—A. and N.Z. ROYAL CHRISTMAS.—King George and Queen Mary, with their little granddaughter. Princess Elizabeth, left London to-day for Sandringham, where Christmas will be spent in the custom.ary way of making it a Royal Family party.—British Official Wireless. SEARCH FOR COMET.—British astronomers are still searching for the comet. The president of the British Astronomical Association, Dr. W. H. Stevenson, says it may have ceased coming north, and may be going south again, and be fading at the same time. He says we may hear of it next in the Southern Hemisphere, as a morning star.—A- and N.Z. SALE OF PICTURES.— Eleven pictures from the collection of the late Marquess Curzon, the former Foreign Secretary and Governor-General of India, were sold at Christie’s salerooms. They realised £24,171. The pictures included Romney’s portrait of Lady Milner, which was sold for £l2,6oo.—British Official Wireless. PEACE IN INDUSTRY.—The first meeting for the discussion of Indusi trial progression and industrial relations, as arranged between the group of employers led by Sir Alfred Mond, and the General Council of the Trades Unions Congress, is expected to take place at the end of January or early in February.—British Official Wireless. KING’S SPEECH. —The Parliament of Northern Ireland was prorogued on Thursday. Gratification was expressed in the King’s Speech at the improvement in tnde, as shown by the big ; reduction in the number of unemployed, and at the general continuance of peaceful conditions in Northern Ireland.—British Official Wireless.