Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 498, 30 October 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

GEORGE STERN DEAD. The death has occurred at Paris of George Stern, a famous international jockey.— AIR BASE AT ~BASRA.—A new flight of flying-boats is being formed at Plymouth to fly to Basra, Iraq, where a new Empire base is to be "Pened.—A.P.A. COUNTRY TOWN FIRE. Five business premises at Guyra, a country town, 356 miles north of Sydney, were destroyed by fire to-day. The dama S« is estimated at £ 5,000. —A.P.A. MAHENQ IN STORM. —A wireless message from the Maheno says she is encountering very rough weather on her passage from New Zealand and "ill not arrive at Sydney until 10.30 P.m. to-day.—A.P.A. LIGHT PLANE’S FLIGHT. —A remarkable flight was accomplished in a Cirrus-Spartan light plane. A pilot and a passenger flew from London to Berlin and back in under six hours each way. The fuel cost less than *3 a head for the return trip.—A.P.A. SOLDIER - MILLIONAIRE- The wifi of the late Major Robert Barbour, of Bolesworth Castle, near Chester, who was recently killed in a riding accident, has just been proved. His estate shows a gross value of £1,124,000. The amount of estate duty Payable will be about £340,000. — British Wireless. PHOTOS BY RADIO. A photograph of the King is to be transmitted by wireless from Daventry on Tuesday inaugurate picture broadcasting. Bach picture will occupy four minutes in the process, which is accompanied by a noise described as a sort °f musical Morse.—A.P.A. ANNUITY FOR Personal and political friends of Mr. T. P. O’Connor, Father of the House of Commons, are organising a tribute to him. j-ie celebrated his 80th birth-

day on October 5. It is understood l hat the tribute will take the form of an annuity to be paid to Mr. O’Connor during his lifetime.—British Wireless.