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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 27, 27 October 1926, Page 11

After being in the throes of a heat wave for the past four days, Sydney suffered wintry conditions yesterday, the low temperature being accompanied by heavy rain. Janet Jenkinson and Iter husband, charged at London with cruelty to their three children, who were imprisoned for three days in a small bedroom, with' a small supply of food, were sentenced to nine months’ hard labour each. Senor DebarrOs, who is making a flight from Genoa to Brazil, has arrived at Las Palmas. On Monday night the inter-island steamer Adik'eva took fire at Suva. Ihe fire was extinguished by the Fire Brigade. The damage is not serious. Au official return shows that Sydney makes 600,000 telephone calls daily. In the busiest periods of the day, on an average, 9500 conversations are proceeding simultaneously.