Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 405, 13 July 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

famine IX BENGAL. —Famine is in the Balurghat division of fungal. Two hundred villagers are 'tying every week. The people are subsisting on boiled leaves. —A.P.A. REFLOATED CRUISER. —A mes'f 8e from Halifax, Nova Scotia, say's there is a hole 36ft long in the hull of . ® cruiser Dauntless, which will take '(men three months to repair.— AP-A.-U.S. fORONERS’ TASK. —In the House '’ f Commons, Mr. It. PI. Morris, Independent Labour member for Car'd Sanshire, introduced a bill to limit joroners’ courts to the task of a seerlining the cause of death. He said ‘Police w °uld know w’ell from the laence whether there ought to be a •oeecution. The bill was read a first tune.—:A.PA.-U.S. PROTEST TO spatv —The “Daily ,‘,~ eßra P h " says the British Foreign *hce has addressed a protest to the .'i' ernrne nt of Spain against the of a forei £Tn oil establishment s ‘j 7 10u * adequate compensation. The *°N° we d the Spanish Governmn«s deci sion to establish a State oil France and the United ’ L es bsd already protested.—A.P.A. Route TO JAPAN—When the Clears, in the plane City of ork * was approaching Tokyo he and *j lei ? ced difficulty owing to the fog sider t nes ?‘ and landed. Mears con0f t . s flight to be a demonstration No n .i e feasibility of a six days’ regular Libert 6 between London and Tokyo via a nd »f" Convenient landing places thft w. Upplies are available throughout r °ute.—A.P.A. ALAND RAILWAY EQUlPrp* le High Commissioner for s Pectp,? e ?’ lan<3 : Sir James Parr, in made the machinery being ere * or the Dominion’s railway Junch Speaking at the Mayor's the 6aid Britain turned out People ® bes t goods. He asked the Zealand ior k s hire fa buy more New lay r ° ducts ’ sa -ying half the outEritain ld e? me back in purchases in m —A.P.a.-U.S.