WORLD'S NEWS
PRICE OF BUTTEI? UP IN SYDNEY. Telegraph—Copyright. United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 20. Owing to the droughty conditions, the wholesale price of butter has been increased by a half-penny to Is lOd a pound. DISTRESSED MINERS. LONDON, December 20. The government offers to double the Lord Mayor’s fund for distress in the mining areas, coupled with the Prince of Wales’ appeal, resulted in yesterday’s contributions totalling £50,000. The present total is £200,000. • The Prince of Wales is broadcasting an appeal on Christmas Day throughout England. WEST END THEATRICALS. LONDON, December 20. Sir George Tallis lias placed J. C. Williamson in the ranks of West End theatrical management by the production of Patsy, at the Apollo theatre. The comedy was enthusiastically received. Helen Ford had the name p'art and was a great personal success. SEQUESTRATION OF MAILING'S ESTATE, SYDNEyT December 20. Silas Maling suffered another reverse to-da.y, the judge in bankruptcy making an order for the compulsory sequestration of his estate at the instance of the Commissioner of Taxation. EX-KAISER’S SISTER, BERLIN, December 20. The ex-Kaiser’s sister, the wife of Count Zoubkoff, has been offered £50,000 for a lecture tour of Europe and the United States. BOXING. MELBOURNE, December 20. The boxing season ended at Melbourne stadium with a ten round bout, in which Jack Cameron, the ex-welter champion of Victoria, easily outpointed Bud Jennings.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11025, 22 December 1928, Page 7
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