Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 594, 21 February 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

POPPY DAY APPEAL.—Lady Haig

announces that the Poppy Day appeal tn Britain on November 11, 1928, yielded £531,000, compared with £517,000 in 1927.—A. and N.Z.P.A. SERIOUS CHARGE. William

Clear, who was arrested at Launceston on a charge of attempting to murder Alexander Evans, secretary of the Northern Tasmanian Trotting Club, "as committed for trial. Bail was ref used.

AIRMAN’S TROPHY.—It is under-

stood that Lieutenant Carl Eielson, Pilot of Sir Hubert Wilkins’s flights tn the Arctic and Antarctic, will revive the 1928 award of the Harmon trophy from the International League or Aviators for the Arctic flight.—A. and N.Z.P.A.

AIR-ft! AIL SERVICES.—The Post-

jnaster-General, Sir William ftlitchellThomson, stated in the House of Commons that 106,000 letters originattng in Britain were carried by airtnaU in 1928, and 350,000 were sent abroad by ordinary mails and subseRuently carried by air-mail.—British Official Wireless. INQUIRY.—The inquiry into th© Italia disaster in the Arctic nas been completed. A report has sent to Signor Mussolini, the talian Prime Minister, and will be Published shortly. This deals with the circumstances in which the gondola of a irship fell away, the behaviour of ho crew after the disaster, and the w ork of rescue.—A. and N.Z.P.A. British bank rate. —in the Bouse of Commons the Chancellor of I Mr. Winston Churchill, n answer to a question, said the desions to alter the bank rate were *haae solely on the responsibility of *}• Governor and Court of the Bank r England. It was the practice frequently to consult the Chancellor of Exchequer when a change was about to be made. —A.P.A.-U.S. IfilSH CHIEF-OF-STAFF.—Major-Gteneral Dean McKeon has been appointed to succeed Lieutenant-General Daniel Hogan as Chief-of-Staff of the risn Free State Army. General Mc-U-eon was most active before the reaty strife. He figured in the Balvt ee am bush. While he was in -Jountjoy prison a sensational attempt as made to rescue him with the aid y £ commandeered army car.—A.P.A.-