Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 579, 4 February 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

’QUAKE SHOCKS IN INDIA. There were severe earthquake shocks in Northern India on Friday night. Damage was caused in Delhi, Lahore, AP awal Pindi, in the Punjab.— SCIENCE DELEGATE.—The Government has approved of the Royal Society's nomination of Professor Elliott Smith as representative of Britain at the Pacific Science Congress in Java in May.—A.P.A. GOLFER WANTS DIVORCE. The professional golfer. Walter Hagen, hasfil3d a petition for divorce at Los Angeles. He charges his wife with desertion, in spite of his efforts to provide for her welfare. —A.P.A. FROZEN TO DEATH. —Twenty-two Argentina cowboys were trapped in a snow-storm in the Andes, on Thursday. Sixteen of the men died from cold. The other six escaped.—United Service. POSTAL CONGRESS.—The Prince of W’ales is expected to open the International Postal Congress, which will be held in London in May. It will be attended by representatives of practically every civilised state. British .Wireless. POLAND AND THE PACT. The Polish Government has reached an agreement with the Soviet, which will be signed on February 7, as a preliminary to the Kellogg protocol, by Russia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Rumania.—AiP.A. COMMUNIST BANDITS. —A German missionary, his wife, and a child are reported to have been abducted by Communist bandits at Nanan, one of the chief cities of the province of Kiangsi. Other foreigners in the neighbourhood are in danger.—A.P.A. BIG COAL ORDER. —The Victorian Railway Commissioners announce they hav© succeeded in obtaining a reduction of 2s a ton on a contract for 5,000 tons of Maitland coal. The former price was 31s a ton. It is not known which colliery has obtained the order. — A.P.A. EDUCATION BY RADIO. The British Broadcasting Corporation announces a scheme of national lectures, under which three times a week a formal lecture of nearly one hour’s duration will be broadcast by an eminent authority on a physical or natural science, philosophy, literature, exploration, music or medicine. British Wireless. CHARFIELD DISASTER. case against Ernest Aldington, the driver of the engine of the express train which was wrecked at Charfield, Gloucestershire, on October 14, when 14 people were killed, who was charged with manslaughter, the Crowfi did not tender any <% dence. Aldington was acquitted.—A.P.A. GOVERNOR'S APPRECIATION. Sir Dudley de Chair, the Governor of New South Wales, who arrived by the Niagara from Auckland yesterday, fcpoke highly of the courtesy extended to him by the New Zealand Government and private organisations. He said it was the first time he had seen the Dominion, and he was delighted with all he saw.—A.P.A. RADIO AND POLICE.—An instance the up-to-date methods now employed by the London police has been revealed. The members of a gang of pickpockets were captured in Kensington through detectives motoring *long one road sending wireless messages to one motoring on another road. —A.P.A.