Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

ARCHBISHOP'S ESTATE. The late Archbishop Harrington Lees, of Melbourne, left for the purposes of English probate an estate valued at £28,555. The net personality is £2,763. —A. and N.E.-P.A. BATTLE WITH REBELS.—A message from Coahuila, Mexico, says the rebel leaders report that 300 men were killed In a battle with Federal troops at San Pedro. Three hundred of the latter were captured by the rebels.— A.F.A.-U.S. WOMAN'S AIR RECORD. —At Oaklunch California, Louise McPhetridge established a new record for a continuous flight in an airplane by a woman. She was in the air 22 hours 4 minutes.—A.P.A.-U.S. HUNGER IN MOSCOW.—The London "Daily News” says bread cards are being issued In Moscow for the first time since 1920-21. Long queues of people wait outside the Soviet’s shops in the vain hope of securing adequate rations. —U.S. NOVEL SEAPLANE. —The trial flights have been successfully completed of a special seaplane commissioned by tlio British Air Ministry. Its wings fold back and make it possible for it to bo carried on a submarine, from which it can quickly be launched. —U.S. SYDNEY S AIRDROME.—The Federal Government proposes to spend £36,000 on improvements to the Mascot airdrome, primarily to develop civil aviation. The improvements will consist of new buildings, modern hangars, and the grading of the landing