Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 494, 25 October 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

AFRICAN EXHIBITION. Every organisation in South Africa was represented at a conference held at Bloemfontein to consider the holding of a pan-African exhibition in 1932. A.P.A. TO TALK TO SHORE. —Amalga - mated Wireless, Limited, has installed a wireless telephone on the Fiji Government’s yacht Pioneer with excellent results. This is the first installation of the kind in Fiji.—A.P.A. GERMAN FLYING BOAT.—Tests will be carried out at the Rohrbach works of the Travemunde cargo-carry-ing flying-boat. If they are satisfactory a transatlantic service will be inaugurated, with calls at Vigo, the Azores and Bermuda. —A.P.A. CAPTAIN HURLEY’S FLIGHT. Captain Frank Hurley, who, with Flying Officer S. J. Moir, is to attempt to break Mr. Bert Hinkler’s time (15J days), has now decided to commence his flight to London on Sunday at dawn. —A.P.A. ENGLAND’S WORKLESS. The weekly return of unemployment in Britain again shows a slight increase in the total number of persons out of work, namely, 1,321,200. This is 1,494 more than a week ago, and 249,904 more than a year ago.—British Wireless. MURDER CHARGE DROPPED. The police abandoned the case against Mrs. Trapman, whose lirs£ husband. Percy Gow, a Chinese, died apparently from poison a few days before sinmarried Ernest Percival Trapman, of the Australian Navy. Trapman Is awaiting trial on a charge of murdering Gow.