Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 440, 23 August 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

LOAN FOR INDIA.—The Controller of Currency at Delhi announces the full subscription of the Government of India’s loan of £26,250,000 issued at the end of July.—U.S. SIR Q. BEIT ILL.—Sir Otto Beit, director of the British South African Company, is ill at his house at Welwyn, in Hertfordshire.—British Official Wireless. KING FOR ALBANIA.—A message from Durazzo, Albania, says the Constituent Assembly is expected very shortly to proclaim the President, Ahmed Bey Zogu, King of Albania, with the approval of Signor Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy.—A.P.A. JPUNJAB RAlNS.—After a month’s drought in the Punjab reports are now to hand of good rains and monsoon conditions there. If these continue they should ease the grave conditions. The wheat, cotton, sugar-cane and rye crops are much below normal.—U.S MINE TO REOPEN.—-The Aberdare Central mine at Cessnock, New South '>ales, which has been idle for five months owing to trade depression, is to be reopened. The miners have a&reed to accept the management’s proposals. WORKLESS ARMY. Unemployment in Britain continues to increase. «e total number of unemployed on August 13 was 1,314,200. This was J**'® more than for thft fortnight be°T? 290,050 more than a year ago British Official Wireless. PEN FOR KELLOGG. —When the Pnited States Secretary of State, Mr. • Kellogg, disembarks at Havre th he will be presented by *?* ayop OI that town with a massive sold pen with which to sign the anti3 r Pact on Monday. The pen is enr£? Ved with olive leaves and 13 AmeU~ n stars. The case bears the deln “If you wish for peace r peace prepare.”—A.P.A.