Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

PLAN ABANDONED, —The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, announces that he has abandoned the Proposal to hold an industrial peace conference. SPRING IX ENGLAND, —Southern England has this week been enjoying: unusually warm weather. In London °n Thursday the temperature in the shade was 70 degrees Fahr. This miniature heat wave, however, is not expected to last, as a thunderstorm followed by cooler and unsettled conditions is predicted.—British Wireless. GOOD ADVICE.—The former High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir piomas Mackenzie, in an interview, sfiJd he would impress on young men the wisdom, of migrating to New Zealand when single, and of settling down to save a nest-egg before marriage. It was difficult for married men to seep a family and to establish a home at the start.—A.P.A.-United Service. SAMOA MURDERS.—A Chinese coolie, Ah Mav, was on trial on Thursday for the alleged murder of another coolie in a plantation near Apia in last. Another coolie, Wong who was arrested last week on the charge of having murdered two in the Mugeles plantation last October, effected his escape* from the mok-up by tearing up the flooring »ast Wednesday. lie has not yet been captured. Britain and kgypt.—in the House of Lords, the Lord Privy Seal, ; ha Marquis of Salisbury, in replying » requests for information regarding British relations with the Egyptian Government, said there were no negouations going on between Britain and Since the recent rejection of he proposed treaty they had gone , to t * l e situation existing before treaty was put forward.—British wireless. Train DISASTER. —The mail train from Johannesburg to Capetown was derailed at the Hex River Pass, a mountainous region, early yesterday morning. it rolled over, and seven carriages caught fire. The driver and ""man, and five passengers, were Killed. The whole country is awaiting a *nnite news of the disaster.