Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

DEATHS BINGE WA R—M r. W.

Slagß secretary of the Returned Soldiers League of New South Wales, ate 3 that more than 60,000 Australian. ex-soldiers have died since neir discharge from the forces. This Uttfe tUally more than were killed in GIFT TO AUCKLAND—Mr. Moss formerly of Auckland, is to Present to the city Captain William oil replica of Sir Nathanial ance -Holland’s famous Greenwich Portrait of Captain Cook.—A. and N.Z.VICTQRIAX SENATORS The . in the election of senators for j vict°na was completed at the weekvJr Elliott, Country Party, * a vT e seat. The others were a Labour and a Nationalist candidate. gATAi, FOOTBALL—The American college and high school football season , mQnt hs has just ended. It re- . ln deaths of players, the n if5 est tot al since 1925, when 20 O J2» were killed and over 100 serilnJured. The average age of the aa players was 19.—A. and N.Z.-F.A. SYDNEY GRAFT PASFI—Tha diver, is returning to Sydney wth Thursda Y Island He was served , vi ? a subpoena requiring him to give aJfjJ®?®. the appeal by Silas Maling his c °hvii § jp, in connection Q the Sydney graft charges. ~Kjf? T lONS SEIZED A party of Belfi 6 * ra^e< t a house in Linden Street, riflJr t seize d a machine-gun, 20 Mill. iA° revolvers, fully detonated muni*- m^>s * a nd 1,000 rounds of amm alH 0 ?* These had been concealed 1» Vllcle * of furniture.—A. and N.Z.- , gggORL) WINS RELAY— For the I the^an 016 » a ? ter ® ve years Oxford won athl^r QUai in tor-university relay races four * meet ing against Cambridge by the nta to three. Cambridge won \V c» ® iles race by 15yds, in which j-,']* * „ ent worth (Sydney) ran the last 11 m »e.— A .I\A.-U.S. T; OARSMF.X—The Oxford HenVv Slty trial eights were rowed at (tihw* \ Graham’s crew. which in--T.aT~ McCulloch (Sydney) and Ingles won by a length in 9m 20s. fieM ?? s Crew * which included BroomA pU ( ?u d s iey >* was ven 153 start - —