Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 715, 15 July 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

NOTED TENOR DEAD.—The death has occurred of Air. David Davies, the noted Welsh tenor, at the age of 82. A.P.A.-U.S. KING ALBERT ROBBED. —King Albert of the Belgians and an equerry after bathing at Mariakerke, near Ostend, returned to their cabins and found that a valuable gold watch and other articles and money had been stolen from them. —A.P.A.-U.S. WIND SWEEPS ENGLAND. —A sudden remarkable wind storm swept a wide circle in the southern, eastern and midland counties of England. The storm broke a long spell of brilliant weather which culminated in a heat wave. The heat immediately disappeared before the wind. In some places the velocity of the wind was 50 miles an hour.—TJ.S. NEW ZEALAND EXHIBIT.—The New Zealand display at the Royal Agricultural Show at Harrogate, England. is attracting much interest. It shows features of the sporting and pleasure resorts, and displays giant trout and salmon and deer heads, which are attracting the notice of the wealthy clientele. —A.P.A.-L .S. AIRPLANE CRASHES —A message from Port Moresby says the Lieuten-ant-Governor of Papua, Sir Herbert Murray, his niece, Miss Morrison, and rhe nilot Parer, were slightly injured when the thplane in which they had intended to make a short flight crashed from a height of 50ft. The machine, which is used on the service to Bulolo goldfields, was extensively damaged. BABY’S TRAGIC DEATH.—A tragedy occurred in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood on Saturday morning, when a baby, 11 months old, was suffocated by her mother. Jose f h ‘ l l! Pattinson, who is now m hospital suf ferins from the effects of gas The woman was found lying on the floor with her head in an oven, and the baby in her arms. The mother had been in ill-health for some tune.