Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 11

Cable Jottings

>AVAL OFFICER HURT —Lieuten-ant-Commander the Hon. CC E. R. SJX'ncer, who visited the Dominions in p 6 recent tour of the battle-cruiser ■Renown, met with a serious accident , Malta when riding. He is in a critical condition.—A. and N.Z. J r NIONS TO UNITE.—A scheme is prepared at Hobart for the amalgamation of the Australian Workers' Union. If this is completed the new J®* 0 ® will rank as one of the world’s direst, with a membership of 240,000. "A. and N.Z. FASCIST COUNCIL.—The Fascist Gmnd Council met at Rome yesterday, « i Snor Mussolini presiding. A resoluJp 1 was carried to the effect that he has come when the council ®bculd legally be incorporated among “p constitutional bodies of the State. ““A. and N.Z. BLIND COMPOSER.—For a considthe composer, Mr. Fredhas had serious trouble Tfih his optic nerves, after a nervous breakdown. Ho is totally blind. English, German and Italian 2* ■P®cia.lißts who have attended him f*Ul hope that his sight may eventually be restored.—A. and N.Z. PBACE IN PORTUGAL.—With flar 2* headlines many of the Paris and *-ondon newspapers reported a revolution in Portugal. The report was round to be based on a hoaxed messr* e telephoned to a French nows agency, ostensibly from the Portus«ese Legation. But Portugal at the is quite tranquil.—rA- and N2.