Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 550, 31 December 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

REPARATION'S COMMISSIONS—It is understood that the Reparations c ommission will meet on January 5 to nominate the members of the new TSxpert Committee, which was the outcome of the conversations * at Geneva between the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and Germany. NO SWINDLE INTENDED.—When M. Klotz, the former Minister of finance in France, who is charged forgery and passing worthless cheques, came before the examining magistrate, he declared that he was the victim of his own imprudence. He •''aid he was firmly convinced when he drew the cheques that they would be met and he relied on money that was coming to him. Tie did not intend to swindle anybody. PRIZE IX LOTTERY.—"Le Jour*a!” Paris, says half a share of the Prize in the annual Spanish lottery is p. d jointly by General Primo de d ‘aik the Pvimo Minister, the Duke « Alba and Senor Leon, Spanish Ambassador in Paris. These three were IT \ lng a Madrid hotel last summer and discussed the lottery. They dispatched a groom to buy a half-ticket. Wholesale frauds. —Lar » e frauds have been perpetrated on Perth during the holidays by e ans bogus caslv orders, purportD? . issued by the Public Works apartment. Small purchases were of 0> and occasi onally a large amount cash was given as change. It is at least £1,200 was frauduently obtained. Fall of 300 FEET.—Mrs. Lola ; s who fell 300 ft over a cliff " the Blue Mountains, N.S.W., and esonly a wrenched ankle, has recovered from her experi!J ce * She said her foot slipped on ? me loose clay and she toppled over . 9 e df?e. She grasped at trees and a rubs « partially broke her fall, she bounced from ledge to ledge.

. '. {r EAT CRICKET RELICS. —There collection of historical dibits at the Schoolboys’ Own Exhi,‘tion at Westminster. These ipcluje cricket ball with which Tate had ar ge share in winning: the fifth test ™atch in 1996, and the bat with which * Otisford made his world’s record score -129 for Victoria against Tasmania Melbourne in 1923. Ti -'GO-SI,AV CABIN’ET. —As a reSult of the understanding reached be'ween the Democrat Party and the roat Peasant Party, the Yugo-Slav • abinet has resigned.