Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 247, 9 January 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

MR. LLOYD GEORGE. —Mr. Lloyd George and his family have arrived at Rio cle Janeiro.—British Official Wireless. BERLIN EXPLOSION. —Eighteen bodies have now been recovered from the ruins of the explosion in the tenement house in Berlin and seven of the occupants are still missing.—A. and NX-Sun. MINISTER VISITS INDIA. —The Secretary of State for War, Sir Lamng Worthington-Evans, who left L< - don in November on an official visit to India, will leave Bombay on January 28 on his return home. —British Official Wireless. OIL FUEL DISCHARGE. —An Admiralty order directs that oily refuse must not be discharged from vessels 'vithin 50 miles of the coast. Experiments in the disposal and treatment of oil refuse are being continued. —A. and X Z.-Sun. OLD CRICKETER DEAD. —The death has occurred at Hobart of Mr. Edward Henry Butler, a prominent • e sal practitioner, the age of 77 years. Mr. Butler was at one time a member of the Marylebone Cricket ''tab and was also a Tasmanian representative cricketer.—A. and N.Z. FIERCE HAILSTORMS.— Fierce hailstorms in which the stones were pieces of ice did severe dama3« to the fruit and grain crops in r 'e north coast districts of New South ''tales. Considerable damage was done to property.—A. and N.Z. ADVENTUROUS CRUISE. —In comPanv with her husband and Captain Mrs. Ivy Hercomb, a young "oman. has left in an attei *pt Jo reach Australia in a 30ft open ship s -iceboat The craft is named Hiawatha.—a. and N.Z. DEPqsei: RUSSIANS. —An uncon_nned repoi*t has been published in F **ia to the eIT 't ' -t Trotsky, Zinovy and the other members of * jjoviet Opposition are now humble J°rkers in a leather factory at Moscow—A. and N.Z. LINER BUILT.—One of four tons passenger liners which are J,: n? built on the Clyde for t -j CanPacific Railway Company will v * aunche<? . on January 24 from the jards of Messrs. John Brown and impany. The vessel will be chrisJfned the Duchess of Bedford by Mrs. Baldwin, wife of the Prime —British Official Wireless. j?R!NG QX FRONTIER. —The tenof the situation on the frontier i M.* een Poland and Lithuania was at Krzaczyna, when as a against the existing boundary dr .^ anian guards began chopping P°*ts. The Polish guards fired f'ha lne shots and then a general ex- °* shots occurred, in which one was wounded. —A. and