Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 552, 3 January 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

NAVAL PROMOTIONS—Engineer - Commander Sutton, of M.AI.S. Renown, has been promoted to the rank of captain, and Lieu tenant-Commander Leach, of the same vessel, has been promoted commander. —A. and N.Z.P.A.

LAW AND SPAHLINOER —A new law operates in Switzerland. under which persons are forbidden to advertise or sell any secret remedies as a treatment for tuberculosis. The question is raised whether AI. Henri Spalllinger will be affected. AI. Spahlinger is at present in London. It is stated on his behalf that he has neve*' sold or advertised his serum.—A.P.A.-U.S.

BRITISH ELECTION —T h e Par li a - tner.tary correspondent of the London ‘‘Daily Telegraph” says the Christmas truce will be followed by rive months °f unceasing preparations for he election. Re hears from a most reliable source that the Government is planning a dissolution for May 10. If that should not be possible the election will be postponed until October. —A. and N.Z.-P.A. *

XEW LAMBETH « BPJDGD-The jL’tn that is building the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., has obtained the cont.i act for the <;onstru?tion of Lambeth Bridge, London, at a cost of £ 550.000. It is estimated that the work will occupy three years.

FATAL CHOCOLATES —In connecfi °n with the death of Hilda Johnson, a pd 15 years, of Newcastle, who died af ter eating some chocolates, the analyst s report states that half a chocolate which the girl had not eaten the presence of strychnine, ‘he contents of the girl’s stomach are being analysed.

OF 48 HOURS—Trouble is threatened over the new award for the Australian timber workers, which presa 4S-hours’ week. A special feting of the members of the union 'U be held to-day to consid%r the award.