CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 288, 1 September 1931, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

The Government of Hungary has decided that Civil Servants’ salaries shall bo cut 16 per cent, in the higher posts, and 10 in the lower, and pensions 15 to 5 per cent. • • • Mr. H. Broadbent, the Australian airman, yesterday restarted on his roundAustrnlia flight from Mascot. He reached Brisbane in five hours and continued o'n to Rockhampton. ♦ ♦ * Friends chatting with Wilfred Appleton in a room in the North Cotes aerodrome were astounded to see him fall dead, states a London message. A bullet from a gun magazine undergoing tests outside penetrated the wall and killed him. Mr. J. A. Mollison, the Australia-Eng-land flying record-holder, who intends to attempt a London-Cape Town record, is now planning a one-hop flight from England to Newfoundland in 18 hours. (By Radio per Mr. I. M. Levy.) It ♦ • Don Bradman, the Australian cricketer, made only eight runs in a match on Saturday, but returned to the pavilion in time to save a considerable sum of money in his clothes. A thief had gone through various pockets, stealing the available loose change. (By Radio, per Mr. I. M. Levy.] » * » Jellicoe’s Daughter 111. Lady Gwendoline, eldest daughter of Admiral Jellicoe, successfully underwent an operation on Sunday for an attack of intestinal obstruction, states a Montreal message. She has been ill since her arrival in Canada on August 22. • » * Coal Export Conference. An international conference, which will consider the general coal export trade position, as it affects Euronean coal-pro-ducing countries, will be held next month in London, states a British Official Wireless message. An invitation sent by the Central Council of the British Coal Mining Industry has been accepted by the German. French, Polish, Belgian, and Czecho-Slovakian owners.