Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 581, 6 February 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

UMPIRE KILLED. Robert McQueen, who was umpiring a cricket watch at Perth, was struck on the uead by a ball, and died later in hospital.— A. P. A. VISCOUNTESS MAXDERVILLE. — Lady Manderviile. the wife of Lieut, wscount Manderviile, R.N., has given oirth to a son at Kimbolton Castle, Hampshire. Lady Manderviile was formerly Miss Nell Vere Stead, of Melbourne. —A.P.A.-U.S. XEW SPEAKER.—According to a *nessage from Canberra, Sir Littleton broom has been nominated for the in the Federal House of representatives. Mr. E. G. Theodore been elected Deputy-Leader of the federal Labour Party. FORMER GOVERNOR DEAD. —The occu rred in London on Monday Sir Frederick Jackson, aged G 9. ® Waa formerly Governor of Uganda, ' ® a noted naturalist and big T? “hnter. He had spent 30 years n Last Africa.—British Wireless. SOUTHERN CROSS’S FLIGHT.— land Ai' William, the New Zea- ; jadio operator who accompanied J” “deader Kingsford Smith and and i; Ldeutenant TJlm on the Pacific <j r T asman flights of the Southern He f 8 * i arr * ve< I in Sydney yesterday. ti v . ® looking forward to the prospecUVe flight to England. jJRWPMAN-s SETBACK.— Lady Worn?’ V 1 ® well-known British airinati«n' to pass the first examment n °f the United States DepartPi!nt’ o °\. Commerce tor a transport that ♦>,* I ce ®ce. Officials explained ablHtv Was not due to her flying denarii*. tut . to her ignorance of the p ment s air traffic regulations.—