Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 390, 26 June 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

McCONACHY LOSES.—The Melbourne billiards match, Lindrum v. McConachy, ended to-day in a win for the former with a score of 18,000. McConachy had scored 17,165. Lindrum made one break of 553. SHEEP FOR RUSSIA.—The first shipment of sheep from South America reached Odessa in a satisfactory condition. Soviet officials state that if the experiment succeeds they intend to import 100,000 sheep from Uruguay every year.—A.P.A. CREWS TAKEN ON. —Crews are being engaged for the idle ships at Sydney and Melbourne. The waterfront was busy at the latter port, where crews for five ships were secured without trouble. The cooks made no reference to the roster system. BRIBERY CHARGES.—The taking of evidence has been concluded before the Royal Commission which is inquiring at Sydney into the charges of bribery made by Mr. W. H. Lambert, member of the House of Representatives for West Sydney, and counsel have commenced their addresses.— A.P.A. GIRLS DROWNED.—The police at Kogarah, a suburb of Sydney, have been informed that a motor-car, in which there were six persons, overshot a punt at Taren Point, Georges River, early on Sunday and sank in deep water. Four of the passengers managed to reach the shore, but two girls, Maude Dennis and Betty Hickey, were imprisoned in the car and were l drowned.—A.P.A. .