Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 485, 15 October 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

ADMIRAL’S FORTH NE,—The late Admiral of the Fleet, Sir oohn do Roeleft an estate valued at £32,765. had no heir.—A.P.A. LONG DOCK TOW.—The first portj®l* the gigantic floating dock. * 3 to fomi part of the naval base at Singapore, arrived stately yesterday entered the Johore Straits, where it was successfully moored. The second portion is due on Monday.—United Service. PROWXKD HER CHILDREN. —A naessage frdn Detroit says an unidentified woman, ill and demented, hurled ♦i? r ® ve c h*ldren into the river from the bridge at Belle Isle. Tho coastS: J ,art * dragged out the mother and two or the children and rushed them to hospital. It is probable that their lives he saved. The other children were drowned.— United Service. FIRE OX MOERAKT.—Fire was discovered in a bathroom, the kitchen and * storeroom, on the Moeraki, at Sydn e>*. yesterday. Only two stewards vere on board. They gave the alarm, hut succeeded in extinguishing the names before tho brigade arrived. The t'M rna *'° was mostly to the wooden partitions and stores, and was infinitesimal. TALKS TO SPAIN.—The President of the United States, Mr. Coolidge, and King Alfonso of Spain, inaugurated a telephonic service be'rT eCn the two c °untries on Saturday, they conversed over a radio and cable ®^ of 6,500 miles. Both ax-claimed j tne new means of communication as a i Jteai factor for the perpetuation of headship and peace.—A.P.A.-US.