Cable jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 238, 28 December 1927, Page 9

Cable jottings

AMERICAN CENSUS.—The United States Census Bureau in its report ®ay® the estimated population at July J- of New York was 5,970,000; of -hicago. 3.102,000; of Philadelphia, -•0*6,000; of Detroit, 1,334,000. —A. and KZ. SYDNEY COMMISSION —The Prettier, Mr. T. R. Bavin, has announced -hat the Sydney Commission will comttence to function on January 3, on *hich date members will be sworn in. "“A. and N.Z. ?reat magnitude which acts under the °* Mobcow. A huge quantity of ttuitray documents, propaganda and ttateriai were seized, also secret Jnntign plants.—Sun. .BOMBS IN BANKS. The Buenos police report that they have ar- ■ sted 11 employees of the anarchist "La Protesta.” The raid was vtried out in connection with a wide- ; pread investigation into the bombing fbe American banks on Saturday. U**® arrests bring the total number at the week-end to 81. —A. v>a N.Z. UNToxg IN - BRITAIN. —The an,,return of the Registrar of irsH C<lly Societies shows that 567 25* unions in Britain had a mem'vrship of 4,190,047 at the end of 1926. v U**rease of 2,791,603 since the peak 1920. The miners’ funds, which £1,391,295 in January, had ~“S ped to £224.900 by the end of the «ar—a. and N.Z ■£TDXey AmuHXTS.—Dull, bois- • [, 0l ? s vyeather prevailed in Sydney for tile “°ddays, which were marked by b, usual number of accidents, n , fUghout the Commonwealth so far othe 3- ** 13 have been reported. Many Persons were injured, several nousl y—A. and N.Z. tHjtPlank CRASHKs’. An air,2?! j nga S< 1 in the air mail service w hile taking off at Hay, 450 Mot •uuth-west of Sydney. The • ; bred named Daish, was seriously inand Hie mechanic and a male sr oitien Ser also were inj’ured. Two were not hurt. —A.