Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 919, 12 March 1930, Page 9

Cable Jottings

COMAIUXISTS TO STAND.—T h e Communist Party in Sydney has decided io submit candidates for the election to the City Council. GOODS TRAIN OFF. —Another railway accident occurred in tho Blue Mountains yesterday. Twelve goods, trucks were derailed near Springwood. Four fell on to their sides, and the others were flung across the permanent way. Nobody was injured. MARINE. CAPTAIN. RETIRES. — Captain H. A. Morris by, traffic superintendent of the Union Steam Ship Company at Sydney, who is retiring afetr 40 years’ service, was presented with a wallet of notes by the wharves staff. VON TIRPITZ’S FUNERAL; —The hags of the German Navy were flown at half-mast today for the late Admiral Von Tirpitz’s. funeral at Walfreidhof. was buried with military honours. Wreaths were sent by the exkaiser and President Hindenburg. saving IN f’ENSIOXS. —Air. F. O. Roberts. Minister of Pensions, in the British House of Commons, said that I’I.OOO pensioned war widows had martied again, and their pensions consetwently had been discontinued. This would result in a total saving of ts.oto.oou. investors REBUKED. —In the Rouse of Commons. Air. J. 11. Thomas. | •te Lord Privy Seal, referred to a city brm’s circular of March 5, advising i People to transfer their hhuk'v abroad.} He said anyone guilty of that .due. I ■•’USht to leave the country. It would ’ better without him. heaths from influenza.—a return Issued l.v the Registrar-General in England for 1929 shows that the *® v -ro influenza epidemic ol' that year. @ and to a. lees extent tho severe cold. ; lo °k a heavy toll of life. The deathLtc was 13.4 a l.obtt, against 111 y the previous year. A comparison fl years in seperate quarters sltows this increase was confined to the ‘nnuenzu period.

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