Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 980, 24 May 1930, Page 9

Cable Jottings

TOURIST BOWLERS WIN. —The ! Australian bowlers defeated Hertford- I shir© by 312 points to 107. TELEPHONE TO JAVA. —A limited telephone service is to be opened between Britain and Java, via Amsterdam, tomorrow. The charge for a three minutes’ call to Java will be £5 FIRE COSTS £12.000. —A tire at Bowraville, 360 miles north of Sydney, Rutted Tuck’s general store and an adjoining solicitor’s office. The Commerbank’s premises were damaged, the loss is estimated at £12,000. SHIPPING HEADS CONFER—The shipping conference at Sydney has oeen adjourned to a later date withachieving any final result. The object was to enable shipowners and mutually to arrange shipping services at the lowest possible freight ates. The deliberations probably will ® resumed next month. WORLD CRUISE OFF.—The junk n^ S^ee ** as returned to Hong-Kong owing to heavy weather. The cruise round the world is meanwhile abandoned. Mr. Stevenson :.s the only man ht and has been in constant control the departure. Messrs. StevenBa -riks. Graham and Mitten left a few days ago on board * lun fc> the Maskee. on an attempt to *au round the world.

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