Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 787, 7 October 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

NELLIE MELBA.—Dame Xellie Melba delighted a vast audi♦mce at Brighton (England), where she at a concert in aid of the Sussex Hospital.—A. and N.Z.P.A. jjO.OQQ FOR CHARITY.—The late Mr. John O’Sullivan, a Sydney bacheor, who was a well-known contributor 0 Roman Catholic charities, beUUeathed £20,000 to Archbishop Kelly r ° r charitable purposes. KKXWQRTHT FOR MOSCOW?— The London “Sketch” says Commander Kenworthy, Labour M.P. for iungston-upon-Hull. has provisionally ceepted the post of British Ambassador at Moscow.— U.S. MKDAL FOR SEP RAVE. of Sir Henry Segrave’s in establishing a world’s a»> C °u ' ant * speed of over 230 miles an h° ur| the medal of the intertional Association of Recognised , Clubs has been handed to i*eS m Paris - —British Official WireVjSIT TO THE K 1 N-(; —The Lord Pnvy Sea) Mr , H Tho n,as, and Mrs. o °'j nas left London on Friday for ‘ andnngliam on a visit to the King. ary arrived in London from -nffingham on Saturday to spend a nrT etc at Buckingham Palace. She will P ew buildings of the London s: on Wednesday.—A. and * n 2P.A.

jjAOL FQ r PLOTTER. — O n a ahf rRe of Plotting a revolution to ent.° Czecho-Slovakia to rejoin thi n^ ary * *-* r - Hela Tuka, a member of p ..'- 2ec ho-Slovakian Chamber of De- < le . s * Las been sentenced to 15 years’ Tut j nment - Supporters of l)r. of tK <Jomons trated against the verdict in© court and were dispersed by the charged with their batons. ana N.Z.P.A.

WAGES RKFI7SKD. —The Union Committee on the wool*n<lastry held a meeting at Brad-re-Ject ed the employers’ pro*or an 8.3 per cent, reduction of j t The committee, however, gave T ; re P re sentatives authorits' to conthat ne P° tia tions, with a proviso mitt r 1 ® Anal proposals must be subthe trades unions.—A. and