Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 573, 28 January 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

EPIDEMIC VICTIMS. —An epidemic of gastritis among the children at Portland, Victoria, is causing concern. Ten young patients have died in one week. RESCUED FROM SNOW. —A mesfrom Bucharest says that the 40 Passengers who were in the train which was buried under a snowdrift between Turnu-Magurele and Litza °n January 21 have been rescued. — United Service. EIGHTEEN MONTHS FOR MURDER—At the Assize Court at Rion. Prance. Madame Godin, who was found guilty of the murder of her husband, "as sentenced' to IS months’ imprisonment.—A.P.A. POK SCHNEIDER CUP. —The British Air Ministry has ordered six racing Planes to defend the Schneider Cup. will be monoplanes. Two of the machines are to be fitted with new Rolls-Royce aero-engines, which of*er the smallest recorded head resistance.—United Service. DROWNED IN RIVER. —A message from Wagga, N.S.W.. states that the fourth drowning within a fortmght occurred in the Murrumbidgee River when James Williamson, aged , • whii© attempting to swim across tne river, sank in the middle, where Die current is very strong.—A.P.A. EAIDUm FOR POOR. Louse of Commons the Minister of «®alth. the Hon. Neville Chamberlain. he realised that the Committee of Civil Resarch, which was examining the question of radium requirements and tiie supply to the poorer hosPttals. was handicapped owing to the Pnc ® of radium. He was trying to expedite the report by the. committee. EINSTEIN S NEW THEORY.—Professor Einstein, as a result of ten Scars’ work, has produced three momentous printed pages, which he is expounding at present. He authorises the statement that he has proved •hat the forces of gravitation and electro-magnetism are inter-related k* unite< * ia one iormula - —