Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 319, 2 April 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

FIRE IN BRISBANE.—A fire oroke out in a motor-body shop, owned by Peels, Ltd., in South Brisbane. Chassis material and completed cars valued at .£40,000 were destroyed.—A. and N.Z. ACQUITTED OF MURDER.—Ernest A. Kleinert was acquitted at Melbourne on a charge of murdering Mrs. Sampson at Mitcham on January 9. —A. and N.Z. N.S.W. AERIAL DERBY.—The New South Wales aerial derby, flown over a course of 42 miles, was won by Flying-Officer Mulrooney, in 19 minutes.—A. and N.Z. FORTUNE OF £ 28,265. —Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, the victim of the transatlantic flight of August 31, left a fortune of £28,265. She died intestate and letters of administration have been granted to her sister, Lady -Mary Savile.—A. and N.Z. RAGE.”—An indignant outburst by the War Veterans’ Patriotic Society has been registered against the proposal of the Louvain University authorities to delete from the inscription °n the building Cardinal Mercier’s words describing how Teutonic rage destroyed the university.—A. and N.Z. JTALV AND EDUCATION. —Th e Italian Cabinet has issued a decree forbidding organisations for the instruction of boys and girls unless they are affiliated with the National Boy Scouts °f Girl Guides. All others must be dissolved within one month. —A- and N.Z. RESCUE IN DESERT.—A dramatic rescue in mid-desert was effected by the crew of an Imperial air liner. In Tesponse to a wireless call it descended a nd picked up and rushed to hosiptal at Bagdad a resident of that city named Abbosh. He had been seriouslyt bounded by rebels who had raided a uiotor convov. Abbosh is now recovering.—A. and N.Z. TO POLE BV Alß—Sweeping superstitions aside, the Italian airman, Commandant Nobili, proposes to leave in the airship Italia for the 2*orth Pole on Friday, April 13. Caroinal Tosi is to bless the dirigible, to one of the Princesses will stand godmother. In the city of Milan about "•110,000 was collected toward the cost °f the expedition.—A. and N.Z. A “LANGUAGE ’ JOKE. —Considerable amusement has been caused in York by a communication reat the office of the Australian rade Commissioner from the traffic manager of the Twin Coach Corporahon of Kent, Ohio. This says: “We ould be pleased to receive any incarnation regarding Australia which it°ik be of interest to us. whether be Printed in English or in the a of your own country.”—A. a nd N.Z.