Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 291, 29 February 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

CABLE -REPAIRED. —The cable burner Iris bus repaired tho cable break eft Suva and has sailed for Auckland.—A. and N.Z. LOXG XQX-STOP FLIGHT. —The United States dirigible Los Angeles bus completed a no l-stop flight of more dan MOO miles, from Lake Hurst, Xew Irrsey. to Panama.—A. and N.Z. IXFECTKD CATTLE- —Argentine, trugu ay unci Brazil have forbidden the **Port to Britain of the carcases of cattle infected with foot-and-mouth as well as of those that had °' en in immediate contact with such cattle.—a. and N.Z.-Sun. DEATH OX ULLM AItQA. —During voyage of tho IJliraaroa from Aucklan<» a passenger, Air. F. N. McColl, 1 is believed, from heart failure, and N.Z. fIVE SHOPS I’IUKXMD. —A mesIr °nt Sydney sti tes that a fire at Tlgandrs, destroyed five shops and , le c °ntents. The damage amounts to t.iousands of pounds.—A. and IM MIG RA TIP X.—Mr. C 001... ...f Q announces that Congress will reJf? th © U.S. immigration quotas ani ' vhich the quota from Britain 7ij- Ireland was reduced by to 83.594, and the Irish Free State "vi.s increased bv 3.535 to 17,437. and N.z. MURDERS. —Air. L. S 3. to appoint a special njttuasioner to inquire into the reIlis. . mur( iers by Solomon Islanders of and ict . Commissioner Bell, a cadet £lo nJt everal Policemen. The commisilav r w °uld reach the protectorate in A- and N.Z.-Sun. MEMORIAL.'—A fund has ** or a memorial to the late fcUowiS " ard y- This is to take the of l k. nj ’ for m:—(l) The preservation ^ lUlllor H birthplace at Brockan obelisk in the same W^° B U, ' i h n 001 ’: 13> a Hardy memorial UllerH* m to contain a bon of his works -rA. and N.Z.