Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

LIQUOR POLL.—A message from Melbourne says the Victorian Government announces that a poll throughout jne State to decide whether liquor jicences shall be abolished will be taken ,n Victoria in 1930. FLYING BOAT TOUR.—The four H°yai Air Force flying boats, which Bre making a long tour, and which recently visited Australia, have-arrived f-t Berria, in the island of Sumbawu, Dutch East Indies.—A.P.A. TEST CRICKET.—In the test match, ' Ves * Indies v. England, the West Indies in the first innings made 212. Freeman took six for 87. England had lost ;,"’o wickets for 114 when stumps were arawn— A.P.A.-U.S. POISON IN BODIES.—A postmortem examination of the bodies of , oy Sefton and his wife, who were round dead in a bedroom at their home “t Murrumbeena, near Melbourne, revealed that the death of both was due to Poisoning. SLOTTED WINGS.—The airman. c aptain Broad, made a successful test ° r a de Havilland 61 plane which is destined for Australia. It is the first Commercial airplane to be iitted with tte slotted wings safety device. —A.P.A. BERM ANY PAYS UP. —Mr. Parker Gilbert, Agent-General for Reparations, announces that in the fourth year of * Dawes plan ended August 31, Gerany made all her payments fully and Punctually. she actually paid *',300,000, including the cost of the ainneland armies of occupation 1 *3,250,000.—A. and N.Z.-U.S. MEW WOMEN VOTERS. —A total o£ 5,250,000 British women began to Mllalify f or the vote yesterday, under me recent legislation extending the T . mto women at the age of 21. At r e end of three months —-namely, on “ecember x — the majority of . the -350,000 women aged 21 will be entitled 0 Vot e.—British Official Wireless. PBAD on THE ROCKS.—The body ° £ Mr. Hyman Goldstein, Nationalist member of the New South Wales .Relative Assembly for Coogee. v -as „°und on the rocks at Coogee yesterC* afternoon. Mr. Goldstein, who mm be e n in ill-health for some time, missed from his home this morn-