Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 11

Cable Jottings

BAN ox OUTSIDERS.—The United States Senate has voted in favour of cutting European immigrants down from 150,000 a year to 80,000. MINISTER’S HOME ROBBED.— Burglars entered the home of Air. J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, at Dulw*ch, and stole jewellery valued at ,£7O. Mot Pi ERS DEM !•]XTKD- ■—As a result of the fire in the church at Gaesci, Roumaniu, 24 mothers of. children who were burned to death nave lost their reason. They have been sent to the Noea Mental Hospital. FAST mail SHIPS. —The United States postal Department is arranging ft contract for two new vessels for the Xew York-Southampton service. They will each have a speed of 2S knots. Each will be of 45.000 tons and will cost £ 6,000,000. Novels BANNED —The Irish Free censors have prohibited the circulation in Ireland of six novels by English authors. The names of the bucks are withheld till booksellers have bad a chance tc return their stocks to the publishers. AUDIUXCK WITH POPE.—Th e Fope gave an audience to Archbishop Kelly, of Svdnov. They discussed the ftairs of th* Svdncv archdiocese, the condition of schools and the Eucharistic Congress held at Sydney in 1928. The archbishop will travel to Carthage to take part in the Eucharistic ConKress to be held there before going to Ireland on * two months’ holiday.