Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 960, 1 May 1930, Page 9

Cable Jottings

MURDER SUSPECT.—In connection with the murder of a. taxi-driver oetw-een Queenscliffe and Geelong, Victoria, a wounded man, who is alleged jo have run amok with a revolver, has oee n arrested. diplomatic friends. The Colonial Office announces that an agreement to define the friendly relaoons between the British Government “01 the Rajah of the Mohammedan •’late of Perlis, in the Malay Peninsula, "as signed on April 28. EIGHT-HOUR CONVENTION. —At rh to ee ting of the governing body of JOB International Labour Office this at Paris Miss Margaret Bond"BIO, British Minister of Labour, announced that the British Government Pi r ,? tldy to ratify the Washington Snt Hours Convention. Dousing t>: Britain. —in the "of a debate in the House of H. ons on ,he estimates for the wraith Department Mr. A. Greenwood, "\f«. u r„ of Health, stated that up to I. rct> JH there had been completed -A,' 6 the Armistice under State-aided hn,, mes 93 9.000 houses. Also 520,000 had be en built without State ,_,„~ nce . so that the total number W»i. y completed in England and wales was 1,459,000.