CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 291, 4 September 1931, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

Miss Amy Johnson has arrived at Omsk en route from Japan for England, states a Moscow message. * Queen Marie of Rumania is seriously ill at Sinaia. She is dieting and resting preliminary to a severe operation. The conclusion of an agreement between the Vatican and the Italian Government is officially announced, states a Rome message. Gloucestershire takes second place to Yorkshire in the English county cricket championship. Kent is third. British Official Wireless. * Mr. 11. Broadbent, the round-Australia flyer, left Darwin at 9.35 o’clock this morning for Wyndham and Derby. He expects to reach Perth to-morrow. ■ » * Tho second New South Wales State lottery was drawn in Sydney yesterday. The prizes were £5OOO first, £lOOO second, and £5OO third, with many smaller prizes. (By Radio, per Mr. I. 11. Levy.) » » » A verdict of accidental death was entered at the inquest in London on John William Garinsou, aged 26, of Ellerslie, New Zealand, who was killed in a collision at the Nottingham Speedway in his first race in England. » • » A Sydney' message states that the Postal Department has decided to discontinue the Brisbane-Townsville air mail service after September 25, but the Mel-bourne-Tasmaniau service, which was suspended last June, will be recommenced on September 12. »* ■ • Eight Spanish generals, including General Frederico Berenguer, brother of' the ex-Prernier, all of whom participated in General De Riverli’s dictatorship, have been arrested as a sequel to the investigation of the past Government's alleged misdeeds, states a Madrid message. • • » British Association football matches in the Scottish League, first division, resulted: —Hearts v. Airdrie, o—2; Queen's Park v. Hamilton. 1—1; St. Mirren v. Motherwell, fl—l. Northern Union games resulted: —Bat.ley v. Wakefield. 10 —7: Keighley v. Hull Kingston. 2—17. The British Postmaster-General announced on Wednesday that, a service of picture telegraphy such as already is in operation between Britain and Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Sweden, would be opened on Thursday between Britain and Italy.—British Official Wireless Woman’s D“nfh Leap. Yesterday n middle-aged womnn jumped from a cliff near the South Tlond Signal Station at the entrance to Pott JacKson\(New South Wales) and struck the rocks 200 ft. below Her body then f “H into the sea and was washed away. The signalman had seen the woman acting alarmingly and was telephoning the police when she jumped. LBy Radio, per Mr. L M. Levy.l