Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 403, 11 July 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

AUDIENCE WITH KlNG.—King George to-day received in audience* Sir Horace Rumbold on the occasion of his appointment as British Ambassador to Berlin STORMS AND CABLES— Magnet istorms are interfering with the Atlantic cables. All the beam wireless services, except the South African, are also affected.—A.P.A. JERVIS BAY AT MALTA.—The liner Jervis Bay arrived tit Malta, yesterday. The crew were forbidden shore leave in order to prevent any possible incident.— A.PA. WRECKED TRANSPORT.—A message from Santiago, Chile, says the death roll in the wreck of the army transport Angamos was iess than first stated. The total number of lives 10.-t is now officially stated to be 209. A.P.A.-IT.S. HOUSING IN FRANCE.—The French Parliament rose on Monday until October. A great housing Bill was first passed providing grants totalling £88.000,000 over the period 1928-33 for building 200,000 cheap dwellings and 60,000 bouses of a better class.—A.P.A. PEER’S SON JN MINES.—The eldest son of Lord Stonehaven. Governor-Gen-eral of Australia, the Hon. James lan Baird, aged 19, of Oxford, has arrived in Montreal. He intends to work in the mines in Northern Canada during his vacation. He says he believes the raining opportunities are greater in Canada than in Australia. —A.P.A.-U.S. SWIFT CTN.VRDER, —After establishing a fresh transatlantic speed record on her last run from England to New York and back, the Cunard liner Mauretania made a remarkable average, speed of 27.3 knots in her 104 miles cross-channel run to Cherbourg. This was faster than her Atlantic crossing, when she averaged a spe<-d of 26.5 knots on her best day’s run.—British Wireless. CABLES AND RADIO.—It is understood that the members of the House of Commons will discuss the recommendations of the Imperial Cables-Wireless Conference in the course of the debate on the Post Office vote on Thursday, when the report of the conference will be published. Labour members intend to oppose the tendency to depart from the system of State control.—A.P.A.U.S. RIVAL OF RlQo—The new German airship LZI27. with which it is hoped to forestall Britain’s RIOO in a transatlantic flight, was on Monday christened at Friederichshafen by the daughter of the late Count Zeppelin in honour of the 90th anniversaj-y of the date of his birth. Plans are being considered for the LZI27 to make a flight round the world in 1929.—A.P.A.