Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 575, 30 January 1929, Page 11

Cable Jottings

EX-RAJAH’S DAUGHTER. —A message from Paris says that the wife of the former Maharajah of Indore, formerly Miss Nancy Miller, of America, has given birth to a daughter.—A.P.A. SUFFRAGETTE’S STATUE.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, has consented to unveil a statue of the late Mrs. Pankhurst, which is to be erected at Westminster.—British Wireless. LONDONDERRY SEAT. Major Ronald Ross (Conservative) has been elected unopposed to the Londonderry s eat. A by-election was made necessary owing to Sir M. Macnaghten, K.C. (Republican-Conservative) being appointed a judge.—A.P.A. tI.S.A. AND SOUTH AFRICA. — Negotiations for the exchange of diplomatic representatives between the United States and the Union of South Africa were said, by an official of the 3tate Department to-day, to be under way. NEW R.A.X. ADMIRAL. —Re.%r-Ad-miral Edward R. G. R. Evans, who will Rear-Admiral G. F. Hyde in command of the Australian Navy, for Sydney by the Mooltan hich is due there on May 16. —A.P.A. WOMEN DOCTORS.—The commit‘ee by the Senate of the Uniersity of London to inquire into the medical education of women undergraduates has reported unanimously in r? v ° ur co-education in medicine. — British Wireless. jRS. SHIPS SOLO.—It is understood V, Washington that a tender of c *.-60,000 has been accepted for the 11 overnmcnt-owned ships recently for sale * Ic is believed that the . aa * or the sale of the vessels has the PWuVal of Mr. Coolidge and the maHty of the members of the Shipping Board.— A.P.A. gOWLKR’s ILLNESS.—A London *P«cialist has ordered Sam Staples, the li«K bowler who had to leave the Engn cricket team in Australia and come owin 8T to illness, to go to Bath th ‘fitment. Dr. Gault, a member of * u tts Cric ket Club Committee, fit t thinks staples probably will be to play at the opening of next sea—A.P.A.