Cable Jottings
FORTUNE FROM WINE.—The late P. B. Burgoyne, a pioneer of the Australian wine industry, who died on September 4, left an estate worth £133,861.—A.P.A.-U.S. NO WORK FOR STRIKERS.— Nearly 1,000 timber workers who have been on strike applied for work at Sydney mills yesterday morning. Only about 10 of them were employed, and they were skilled machinists. There ■"'us no disorder. .HUGE SUM STOLEN. —William Rode : a land agent, was sentenced at Brisbane to imprisonment for five years for the theft of £ 2,992. The Crown alleged that Rode failed to account altogether for £20,000, which bo had received from nine persons on Account of transactions in land. NEW BRITISH ENVOYS. Mr. Cecil Francis Dormer, Counsellor in the British diplomatic service. has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Bangkok. Mr. Reginald Harvey Hoare, also a Counsellor in the diplomatic service, is to be Minister Plenipotentiary while he is employed in the Residency at Cairo.—British Official Wireless.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 9
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159Cable Jottings Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 9
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