Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 314, 27 March 1928, Page 10

Cable Jottings

WIRELESS TELEPHONY. —A wireless telephony service between Paris and New York will be inaugurated on Wednesday,—A. and N.Z. STRIKERS RETURN. —Practically all the employees at the Walsh Island works resumed work yesterday morning', says a Sydney message.—A. and N.Z. DUKE OK ABERCORX. —The term of the Duke of Abercorn as Governor of Northern Ireland has been extended another six years. He was appointed to the post in 1922. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. TOTALIS ATOP IN FRANCE. —The installation of the totalisator at the Longchamps racecourse lias been completed. A special meeting is to be held on Wednesday for the purpose of testing the machine. —A. and N.Z. MIGRANTS TO CANADA.—The total number of Immigrants to Canada in the fiscal year ended February 29 last was 136,932. This is an increase compared with the previous year of 11 per cent. —A. and N.Z.-Sun. SHIP IN DISTRESS. —An S.O.S. wireless call from a British steamer, the Hussar, operating on the China coast from Shanghai to Singapore and Calcutta, was relayed to San Francisco by another British vessel, the Silver Oak, from north of the Hawaiian Islands. —-A. and N.Z. tits ASTER IN MINE. —Twenty-six miners perished in the .Aurora mine at Teziutlan, Mexico, which was wrecked by fire and flood. The sole suivivoi was rescued after having subsisted m the underground workings tor 16 days on water in which he was partly subI merged.—Sun.