Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 277, 13 February 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

TOTE IN ENGLAND. —The Bill to establish the totalisator on racecourses in Britain was read for the first time in the House of Commons on Saturday.—A. and N.Z. HINKLER IN EGYPT. —The Australian airman, Mr. Bert Hinkler, has arrived at Ramleh, five miles northeast of Alexandria, on his attempted flight to Australia. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. SOVIET AT GENEVA,—' j'he ' Soviet announces that it will send an observer to the meeting of the Commission on Security and Arbitration to be held at Geneva under the auspices of the League of Nations on February 20.—• A. and N.Z.-Sun. INTER-IMPERIAL TRADE.—Captain H. L. Seligson, M.P., of South Africa, sailed from Vancouver by the Niagara to tour Australia and New Zealand. He is mapping out a scheme to foster inter-Imperial trade relations. —A. and N.Z. NEW SHIPS FOR NAVY.—The Admiralty is having a 10,000-ton cruiser the Exeter, built at Devonport. It has announced the names of nine destroyers and six submarines to be built in the current programme.—A. and N.Z. NO AMERICAN LEAGUE. —Delegates to the Pan-American Conference at Havana, by 12 to 6, rejected a motion to give the Pan-American Union political power and make it practically an American League of Nations. —A. and N.Z. ARTIST’S VALUABLE GIFT.—The well-known portrait painter and Royal Academician. Sir John Lavery, has given a collection of his own pictures to the Art Gallery of his birthplace, Belfast. The estimated value of the pictures is between £25,000 and £30,000. —A. and N.Z. £ 500,000 FIRE. —A disastrous fire, which caused damage estimated at £500,000, destroyed the greater part of the Imperial Cold Storage Company's premises on the seafront at Capetown. Butter, margarine and bacon fed the flames, and the firemen battled with ammonia fumes.—A. and N.Z.