Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 455, 10 September 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

MISHAP TO FLYERS.—Advices from Casa Blanca. Morocco, state that Sergeants Assolant and Lefevre damaged their plane in attempting to take off. They decided to discontinue their flight and will return to Paris by the regular air route.—A.P.A.-U.S. CAPE-TO-CAIRO WALK. Two pedestrians, Cooke and Monson. have started on a walk of 6,000 miles to Cairo. They will endeavour to lower the world’s record over the first 1.000 miles to Johannesburg.—A. and NY. P-A. TREASURY WINDFALL.—The British Treasury Ims had an unexpected windfall of £1,000.000. This is in the form of death duties from the estate of the late Mr. James Oxley, a retired banker, of Leeds, who died in July. His estate was worth £4,000,000.—A and N.Z. P.A. PACE CASE DROPPED.—It is understood that there will be no further proceedings in the Pace murder case, which has been the subject of sensational references in the British papers for the past two weeks. It is reported that the authorities consider there is nothing to be gained bv reopening- the case.—A. and N.Z. P.A. FLIGHT OVER CANADA.—The airmen Major Earle Godfrey and Ser-geant-Major M. Graham completed the first airmaU flight across Canada on Saturday evening. They left Ottawa on Wednesday morning. Their flying time was 32 hours. The flight was of an exploratory nature, in order to determine the routes to be used bv seaplanes in the future.—A.P.A.-U.S. AI R.M HX LOST IN SKA. The British Air Ministry announces that Pilot Hatton. Lieutenant Booth, and a telegraphist named Grigson. who relonged to a flight attached to the aircraft-carrier Argus, are misting in the North Sea. They had been engaged in a reconnaissance flight. Ships have searched for the three men without avail. —A.P.A.-U.S. ! PRI.NTK IN FRANCE.—The Princo of Wales drove to th* Queen Alexandra Memorial Hospital for Seamen at Marseilles, and made a tour of the wards. Ho said he hoped there would always bo friends of the sailors who would recogrnise what the nations owed to the men of the mercantile marine. The Prince and his brother, the Duk* of Gloucester, then boarded the liner Kaiser-1-Hind and sailed for Egvpt A. and N.Z. P.A.