Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

BITTEN BY SHARK. —The young man, Alaxwell Steele, who 'was attacked by a shark at Bondi, is progressing favourably. He is now expected to recover. EXPELLED FROM JAPAN.—Advice has been received in Sydney that Mr. J. Ryan, who represented the Australian trade unions at the Pan-Pacific Conference in Shanghai, has been deported from Japan on account of his alleged Communistic beliefs. DUCHESS’S NEW POST. The Duchess of York has accepted the post of Commandant-in-Chief of the nursing section of the Order of St. John and is now the head of 20,000 women of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.— Australian Press Association; United Service. N.S.W. BUDGET.-—The Premier and Treasurer of New South Wales, Air. T. R. Bavin, will deliver the Budget when the State Parliament reassembles today. There will be no increased taxation with the exception of the reimposition of the liquor tax. A deficit for the present financial year will be forecast. SCOUT’S SWIFT TRIP. —A Danish Boy Scout named Palia Huld, who set out on a journey round the world in celebration of Jules Verne’s anniversary, has returned to Copenhagen. He accomplished the journey in 14 days compared with the SO days taken by Verne’s hero, Phineas Fogg.—United Service. I, ABO UR OPT! MISM.—Mr. Ar th ur Henderson, Labour M.P. for Burnley, speaking at a conference of the Scottish Labour Party, predicted that the general election would be held at the beginning of May, 1929. He said he thought it was almost certain that Labour would again be called upon to govern.—United Service. MUTINY IX GAOL. — The fact has just been disclosed that some of the prisoners in Bathurst gaol recently mutinied. They overpowered the warder who was in charge of them and took possession of the boot shop, the contents of which were badly damaged. The mutineers, who allege that one of their number had been illtreated, were eventually subdued. AAI ERIC AX SOCIALISTS.—At the convention of the American Socialist Party a platform was presented calling for the withdrawal of American forces from Nicaragua; the cancellation of war debts due to the United States on a basis of mutual cancellation of all Allied debts; the recognition of the Soviet; America’s entry to the League of Nations under proper safeguards: and approval of light wines and beer. —Australian Press Association.