Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 279, 15 February 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

EDITOR DEPORTED.—The editor the Samoan Guardian, Mr. E. W. Gurr, was deported on Saturday to •New Zealand.—A. and N.Z. LINDBERGH AT ST LOUIS.— Colonel Charles Lindbergh, urrived at Louis on Monday, on his return from his goodwill visit to the South American States.—A. and N.Z. .MRS. CHURCHILL ILL.—Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has under-gone an operation for acute mastoiditis. She is satisfactory progress.—A. and RAIN IN AUSTRALIA. —Benefical tains have fallen in most parts of * ictoria. and New South Wales, especially at Broken Hill. There the drought has been definitely broken. Rain is sti, t falling in the coastal ereas.—A. and N.Z. DUTY OX PORT WINE. —Th e growers of Oporto have petitioned the Portugese Minister of Agriculture, General Alves Pedrosa, suggesting that he seek a modification in the British duties on port wine.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. QUEENSLAND HEAT WAVE. —A heat wave has been experienced in the Western half of Queensland for the Past week. Seven deaths are reported K° m CToncu rry districts, where the thermometer has registered as high **ll7 degrees..—A. and N.Z. GUARDS LEAVE SHANGHAI. — The second Battalion, Coldstream Guards, left Shanghai yesterday on the conclusion of ten months’ duty in safeguarding British interests at Shanghai during the most critical period of the Gantonese invasion.— A. and N.Z. STRIKE IN GERMANY. —Unless tlie 50,000 metal workers who are now on strike for higher wages in Central Germany resume work before February all the large firms, including Krupp, piemens Brothers and the General Electric Company will close their Tories, which will render 800,000 men idle.— 4UM i N.Z.-Sun,