Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 728, 30 July 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

BIG MELBOURNE FIRE.—A large fire occurred in Flinders Lane, Melbourne. last evening, in the live-storey Warehouse of Messrs. Collins and Soji, general mercers. The building was Practically gutted. The damage to stock is estimated at £40,000. SYDNEY DRENCHED. —The New -uth Wales meteorologist predicts further heavy rain on the north coast Jith lt possibility of Hoods. Sydney drenched with rain at the weekend and the weather was bitterly cold, fell in the mountains and in other elevated districts. MISSING—It is -j>ared that two men lost their lives , n fP a launch in which they were si* * their way from Kiama to . aney struck a rock off Cronullu. a ?J r l es Jells was thrown overboard ana Leslie Wilsher jumped in to his distance. Both men disappeared. gMCTS AS LKCTURER. —General Leader of the Opposition • tno South African Parliament, has rv, Cepte<i an invitation from the Vicea»^ I lv elior of University of Oxford j. J 1 Rhodes Trustees to be Rhodes lecturer for the year 1929General Smuts will reside at •uora during the coming Michaelmas —British Official Wireless. \jCTIMS op THE MOTOR. —Five 01 motor-car accidents died in Melbourne at the week-end. DESERT.—The Buda"raln?lespondent ot tlie “Uaily TeleJnu i Says a n entire company of a ori a c re SJrnent, which was garri\virhS l y u b°eg° a , deserted to Hungary Thi* -rT ie * r I% ifl es and machine-guns, fin,? Bos nians say the desertion was * to the inhumanity of the officers. N.Z.P.a.