Cable Jottingsr

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 809, 1 November 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings r

PLENTY OF CHAMPAGNE. —The Rheims correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says the 1929 champagne supply ! s ,the most abundant for 30 years. It {jj? ex P®cted to exceed 80,000,000 bottles, lue huge cellars of the champagne rL "ins are filled with magnificent wine. REDS’ FOBS TO PIE. —Of 129 Astrakhan officials, including several omen, who were arrested on charges corruption. 14 were sentenced to Jcath. Various terms of imprison!f nt were inflicted upon 109, and the 1 her six were acquitted. £*o.ooo FOR RADlUM.—President fe v ’ er Presented to Madame Curie .10,000 as a gift from various groups Americans, for the purchase of a °f to be presented to p u ne Hospital and Research Inonrt te in "Warsaw. This is the seco such gift that Americans have 5 e n to Madame Curie. HgHAP ON RAILWAY. —There hv another railway accident yesterof v at '- Oo,a mon. in the southern part South Wales. A goods train am© was derailed and it fell down 'vLa mbi, , nkmt ' nt - Eight trucks of th R a . n<l chaff were piled up behind Wp» Q eng:lne - The driver and firemen 4e n not huit ' but were greatly Lord bade.n-powet.t,—in the ;l °hl e ° f Eord.s yesterdav there was attendance of peers. Lady > lr l \ and a number of Boy t>irl Guides and their officers »»,L ln the galleries, and they witsi,;,-; 1 . Lo >'d Baden-Powell being t Sl] „, ln "'ith the customary pictur"?r« T Ceertnonial - The chief sponsors ta nar Hampton and Lord GlenmissionersU are f, °' ll Hoy Scout Com- : r international cable news appearn.ept ln ' s ..!; ssu, ‘ ls published by arrangeAssoela.. the Australian Press and the "Sun”—Herald" 5 «rvice. Limited. Cm arrangement, Reuter’s ’»Lia] ?f rvlc,? ' >" addition to other the c.2?, rws of information, is used in fence i,l , kui '>n of the oversea intelliri*hti Published in this issue mid all are e «served AUStra " a a ' ld = so* 1 P f *b« cable news on this page as : r Un«” h * ad «<? ha * ffueared In “The )»» d ls cabled to Australia and "hnuld be a P?na hy Kp ’“<’‘a | permission. It ,r * not th, aer " tood that 'he opinions •fPrnwv’iP .* ot "Th- Times" unless i stated to be so.