Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

PLAGUE IN INDIA. A grave plague epidemic in the United Provinces is causing 4,200 deaths weekly. STRIKE OF COOKS. The cooks yesterday refused to man the UuddartParker steamer Werribee at Melbourne until the dispute on the Ulimaroa is settled. The company now has four ships tied up. SENTENCE OF DEATH.—Sentence of death was passed at Perth on Edward Nicholas Kelly for the murder of Police-Sergeant Alexander Mark, who was shot when he was trying to arrest Kelly. GREYCLIFFE CLAIM. The Chief Justice of New South Wales Wales, Air. Justice Street, has granted the application of the Union Steam Ship Company for a commission to examine expert witnesses abroad in connection with claims arising out of the Greycliffe disaster. wheat pool opposed.-—Th e Victorian Employers’ Federation, in a statement, strongly opposes the proposed compulsory wheat pool, which, it says, would have the effect of permanently raising the costs to the producer, or prices to the consumer.— united Service. ys. NAVY: BILL. —The Naval Affairs Committee of the United States ‘-enate has reported to the Senate the Appropriation Bill, carrying approximately £ 73.600,000, or about £BOO,OOO gore than in the Bill carried by the douse of Representatives.—Australian *wess Association. ENGLISH CRICKET TOUR. The secretary of the Australian Board of Control has received advice that owing to the later departure of the English team for Australia, the match originally arranged against the Western Australian Colts would be eliminated. The Englishmen will sail by the utranto on September 15. ERIXCE AS A MASON.—Pri nee jjeorge, the King’s fourth son, who polds the rank of lieutenant in the t o Y a t Navy, has been initiated into the ;. av >' Lodge of Freemasons, of which pe Duke of York is master. There ’ a « a large attendance of Freemasons, ' the Prince of Wales. —Ausa han Press Association,