Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 9

Cable Jottings

_NKW GUINEA GOLD.—The output to date from the Julolo goldfield. New Guinea, is valued at £ 300,000.—A. and . FLYING-BOAT CRUISE The four British flying-boats which are en route to Singapore and Australia arrived at Athens on Friday, and at Aboukir, Egypt, on Saturday.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. GERMAN UNEMPLOYED. The number of unemployed in Germany is officially reported as being 442,000, compared with 1,750,000 a year ago. This is regarded as a sign that Germany is recovering her pre-war position.—A. and N.Z. .RESCUED FLIERS.—The American ii via tors, Miss Ruth Elder and Captain George Haldemann, who were rescued in mid-Atlantic when their airplane American Girl came down on the way •o Paris, were boisterously welcomed it the airdrome at Le Bourget, Paris, on their arrival at Bayonne.—A. and N.Z. „ CLAIM TO FORTUNE. —Mr. James (’lark, of Newcastle, is in San Francisco. He is seeking to establish his relationship to the late William A. Gark, of Montana, a former member the Senate, who left an estate worth °ver £ 9,400,000, of which Mr. Clark claims a share.—A. and N.Z. MORE MOTOR-CARS. From reports issued by the Ministry of Transport it appears that one out of every persons in Britain owns a motor rehicle. The number of vehicles for which licences were granted last year 1*723,000. This compares with L 347.000 licences issued in 1925. —British Official Wireless. SOPTH AFRICAN FLAG. —A mes■*s® from Capetown says" the Bill Which provides for the flags of the i nion of South Africa, as amended by Jre recent compromise between the j Nationalist and South African parties. ! was passed by the I-iouse of Assembly J® Friday without discussion. —British Official Wireless. .RAISED TO PEERAGE.—It is announced that Mr. Ronald McNeill, who Was recently appointed Chancellor •he Duchy of Lancaster, in succession , •Viscount Cecil, who resigned, has raised to the peerage.—A. and * -£*-oun.