Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 537, 14 December 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

.DEATHS IN BAZAAR.— Two buildcollapsed in the goldsmiths’ quarters in the bazaar at Peshawar, cunjab. Eight people, including three women and tnree children, were killed. —A. and N.2.-P.A. FLEECED BY WOMAN. The amount of money and securities -'ludame llanaus organisation, "Lc aazetto du France,’* received in Paris h'oiu clients is said to total X 5,000.000. —A. and N.Z.-P.A. STRONG ELECTION LEAD.—A despatch from Vienna says that in the general election in Rumania M. Juliu Mariiii, Leader of the National, I‘eusants* Party, has a strong lead. The indications are that his party will it tve an overwhelming majority in the new Parliament.—A.P.A.-U.S. HOW far MONEY GOES. —In the House t.i Commons the Minister of Labour, £ir Arthur Steel-Maitland, said l,1 at compared with 1914 the spending Power of the pound sterling in 1924 Was Us Sd and now was 12s Id.-—A. -ad NYZ.-P.A. Ih'NUKKDS DYING. —A Melbourne Diember of the Anthropological Society, pr. Gill, says the scarcity of water 1 allowing upon a prolonged drought "ns responsible for hundreds of abor‘ffir.eg dying in Northern and Central Australia. The Federal Government •'mould afford succour to the natives ta king them permanent water supW'e* an< 3 distributing Hour and Provisions.