Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 618, 21 March 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

BOXING IN SYDNEY. —At the Sydney Stadium lust evening Jack 10.5, of America, defended Wally H. cock. 10.1, on points MINING LOSSES. —The Parliamentary Secretary for Mines, Captain H. D. King, in the House of Commons said the estimated losses in the mining industry in 1928 were between £10,000.000 and £11,000.000. —A.P.A.U.S. MELBA IN PARIS,.-— Dame Nellie Melba has taken a flat" in the fashionable Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris. l ' famous prima donna says she tntenas to spend most of her time in apart from the opera season in London. —A and N.Z.-P.A. AIRMAN HONOURED —Lieut. Carl Eietsson has received a United States distinguished flying cross in recognition of his piloting Sir Hubert vvilkins's airplane over the North p° from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Dea Mans Island. Spitsbergen. —A. and N.2.-P.A. SAILORS' BOOTLACES., — In the House of Commons Mr. Cecil HUton. Conservative member for Bolton, complained that, while the Lancashire cotton mills are working short time, a contract for 2 .000.000 pairs of bootWes for the Navy had been placed a foreign firm. Every tag. he •aid, was stamped Made in England. —A.P.a.-U.S. FEW Kl'. UNEMPLOYED. The tatest weekly unemployment returns ‘ or Britain show a striking improvement. On March 11 the total number of unemployed was 1,268,800. which U 5.532 "less than for the week beore. Compared with a year ago there Jj* an in, cease of 197,065 —British offi tKd Wireless. - -