Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 791, 11 October 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

DOMiyiOXS’ LAWS.—King George has sent a message to the Imperial Constitutional Conference saying he trusts it will lead to even closer association between all parts of the Dominions.—A. and X.Z.P.A. ADMIRAL RETIRES.—The Admiralty announces that Admiral £>ir Rudolf dentin ok has been placed on tlic relist at his own request. ViceAdmiral Sir Hugh Watson has been Promoted to the rank of admiral.— British Official Wireless. BILLIARDS IX BRITAIN'.—In the billiards match. Nrwman v. Davis, the scores are:—Newman (in plav). 4,605, including breaks oC 265 and 102: Davis. •*.938, Including breaks of 237, 197 and --5.—A.P.A.-U.S. MEX RKSCU KD.-—All efforts to rescue the 20 trapped men in the tunnel which collapsed at Tokyo at urst proved unavailing. Eventually, nowever, they were reached through a steel tube, and all were saved.— A. and N.Z.P.A. RlOl TEST DE LA Y E D.—ll was hoped that it would be possible to bike the airship RlOl out of her lian§J r a t Cardington at daybreak on Wednesday. Unfavourable weather, however, necessitated a further postponement of her first flight.—British Official Wireless. GERM AX MILITARISTS.—In confluence of the military nature of the recent manoeuvres of the powerful German Nationalist organisation, known as the Steel Helmets, of which Marshal Hindenburg, tbe President, is the head, it has been suppressed throughout the Rhineland and Westphalia. This action has been taken hv the Government of the Reich.—A. a nd N.z.p.A. AWARDS FOR FLIGHT.—The Royal Aero Club has awarded its gold medal Xf> Captain C. D. Barnard and an address of congratulation to the Duchess I Bedford in recognition of their j "ight to India and back. Captain Bar- j uard. accompanied bv the Duchess. I *ecompliahed tbe flight in eight days j lr ) August. They used a Fokker monoplane fitted with a Bristol-Jupiter s The distance flown was about! I->,OOO miles.—British Official Wireless, j