Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 305, 16 March 1928, Page 10

Cable Jottings

T-ADY BAILEY’S FLIGHT. —Lady Bailey has arrived, at Catania, Sicily, her flight from Croydon to CapeT(> wn, via the Sudan.—A. and X.Z. - Sun. ROUGH \VRESTLING.—A message from Portland. Oregon, says that in a very rough wrestling match Thye defeated Kauffman, of Columbia. Ohio, by two falls to one.—A. and N.Z. MORE WORK IX BRITAIN.—The Attest return shows that the number persons unemploved in Britain this J'eefc is 1.094.500. This is ovei 14.000 iess than in the previous week, and •dHiiu 50.000 less than in the corresponding period of last year.—A. and RY AIR AND SKA.—The first mail by airplanes coastwise which anked up with steamers on both sides the Atlantic, arrived in Paris toJky* The mail took 14 days to come iron* Buenos Ayres instead of the three weeks of the most favourable a U-sea transit.—A. and X.Z. PSQAR SLATER CASK.—The Sech*tary for Scotland, Sir James GilJ°ur. has remitted the case of Oscar • pter. who was recently released from Prison after serving 1S& years of a lfa sentence in connection with the Jhurder of an old lady, to the Scottish °* Criminal Appeal.—A. and AX2AC Vll >G RIM AGE.—T lie St. |»arnabas.s's pilgrimage to Gallipoli * laa arranged for the party to leave L>ndon on August 22. It is on simit lLr Unes to that of 1926. The ehar- '' red steamer is the Stella d’ltalia. an vtss cl of 5.530 tons. The cost ° c Berths ranges from 23 to SO guineas, and X.Z.