Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 9

Cable Jottings

HOOKWORM DISEASE CHECKED. —The Federal Director of Tropical Hygiene states that New South Wales has made excellent progress in abating the hookworm disease. OVERTURES FROM EGYPT.—The Chamber of Deputies adopted a resolution, with four dissentients, granting the Cabinet a mandate to negotiate; a treaty with Britain on the basis of the British proposals. LATE M.P.’s ESTATfi—Mr. R. W. Tilden Smith, the financier and coalmine owner who died in the lobby of the British House of Commons on December 18, left an estate worth £409,190. ANDREW FISHER MEMORIAL. — The British Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, unveiled a grarite cbelisk memorial for the late Andrew Fisher at Hampstead Cemetery. The memorial was erected by the friends of the former Australian Labour Prime Minister. PALESTINE MAJOR-GENERAL pUAD.—The deat \ has occurred of Major-General Sir Henry West Hodgson, who fought under Viscount Alenby in Palestine with the Australian mounted forces.—Major-General Sir Henry Hodgson entered the 16th Husin 1889, and he was a brigadier at the beginning of the war. He retired in 1927. RUSSIAN' BELIEVED DgAD.—As a result of the receipt of an anonymous letter, the police are excavating ln f he Forest of Meudon, near Paris, peeking the body of General Koutepoff, leader of the Russian refugees, who disappeared several days ago and was believed to have been killed by Soviet agents.