Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 883, 29 January 1930, Page 9

Cable Jottings

TUOO AGAIN ALOFT. —The airship lUOO left hot- mooring mast at Cardington yesterday morning on another trial flight. She will visit Oxford and Plymouth. EMPIRE GAMES. —South Africa is to be represented at the British Empire flames, to bo held at Hamilton. Ontario, bv track and field athletes and boxers, and possibly by swimmers. XQ connection. The Premier of South Africa, General J. B. Hertzog, stated in the Assembly that no agreement had been concluded between the Soviet and the South African Governments. LORD OF APPEAL RESIGNS. —Viscount Sumner, who was appointed a Lord of Appeal in 1912, has resigned, *md King George has appointed Mr. Hugh MacMillan. K. 0.. to succeed him. Lord Sumner, who is 71. is one of the foremost exponents of jurisprudence of his generation. He helped to estimate the total sum Germany could he asked to pay. EX-KAISER CELEBRATES. —The ex-Kaiser celebrated liis 71st birthday a t Doom yesterday, the 11th die has £Pent in exile. A black and white Hohenzollern banner floated from the turret of the residence, but there was absence of the festive joy of last year, when Wilhelm was surrounded hy nearly all the members of his family. Since then death has claimed .his brother and his sister. piTKE FORMS COMPANY. —The Luke of Norfolk is the latest landowner turn his estates into a company. This is called Fitzalan- Howard Estates, Limited. The Duke of Norfolk is England's premier duke and earl. He owns about 49.000 acres of land. His rc tidences include Norfolk House. *St. James’s Square, London: Arundel Castle, Sussex; Derwent. Hall, Derby•hire; and Beech Hill, Sheffield.