Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 624, 28 March 1929, Page 11

Cable Jottings

BRITISH BUDGET.—In the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, said the Budget would be introduced on April 15. —United Service. PETROLEUM OUTPUT—The directors of the American Petroleum Institute yesterday approved of the plan to curtail crude-oil production to the average daily output of 1928. —A.P.A^ * NEW SEAMEN’S UNION.—The industrial registrar at Melbourne has refused an application by the newly constituted Australian Seamen’s Union for registration in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court. ZEPPELIN OVER JERUSALEM.— The Graf Zeppelin (LZI27), which is on a flying cruise from Friedrichshafen to Palestine, passed over Jerusalem at 7.15 a.m. on Tuesday. She circled low over the city.—A.P.A. KINGSFORD SMITH BETTER.— The flight of the Southern Cross from Sydney to England will probably be commenced on Saturday or Sunday. Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith has recovered from his attack of influenza. —A.P.A. LOYAL RAJAH DEAD. —The death has occurred of the Maharajah of Bharatpur who, at the outbreak of the Great War, placed the whole of the resources ,of his State at the British. Government’s disposal.—British Wireless. TO HELP U.S. FARMERS.——The Agricultural Committee of the United States Senate has decided to call Mr. Henry Ford, Mr. J. P. Morgan, Mr. Owen D. Young, and other financial leaders to help to frame farm relief legislation for the coming special session of Congress.—A.P.A. TO FIGHT IN AMERICA. —The Australian heavy-weight boxer, George Cook, with his wife and daughter, arrived in New York from England on Tuesday for a series of bouts in the United States. He left immediately for the home of his American manager, Billy Ames, in Syracuse. New York State. —A.P.A. DUKE AS CHURCHMAN.—The King has approved the appointment of the Duke of York to be Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland, in succession to Earl Stair. In this capacity his Ro£al Highness wall open the annual general assembly of the Church of Scotland. —British Wireless. AIR MAIL FOR INDIA.—The Post-master-General, Sir William MitchellThomson, announces that the through air service between Britain and India, which will be begun on Saturday, will be available for all classes of postal papkets except parcels. The countries to be served by the new service will be Egypt. Irak, and India. —British Wireless. TUNNEL INVESTIGATION. —Th e Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, announced in the House of Commons on Tuesday that an impartial inquiry, under the auspices of the Committee of Civil Research, wlil be made into the economic aspect of the Channel tunnel project. Consideration of tlie military aspect of the question will be postponed until after the committee has reported.—British Wireless. GHANDI FINED. —Ghandi and four other Nationalists who were accused of burning foreign cloth in Mirzapore Park, were each fined Is 6d. The magistrate declared that the park was a public thoroughfare, and as Ghandi had said he did not want to break the law, only a nominal fine was necessary.—British Wireless.