Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 11

Cable Jottings

NSW. UNEMPLOYED.—A lfirge body* of the unemployed stormed the Sydney Trades Hall and took possession of one of the assembly halls, where they held a meeting.—A. and N.Z. NIGHT RACING.—The New South Wales Government has decided to prohibit night racing, including trotting, after January 1 next.—A. and N.Z. CRICKET IN INDIA. —A largelyatteided meeting; of cricketers at Delhi decided on the formation of an Indian Board of Control.—A. and N.Z. BRUISER RETURNS.—The cruiser Adelaide has reached Newcastle on its return from participating in the Solomon Islands expedition.—A. and N.Z. SYDNEY’S SHIPPING. —The annual report of the Harbour Trust Commissioners shows that during the year 15,366 ships, with a registered tonnage 16,526,798, entered Port Jackson, representing the highest tonnage in its history.—A. and N.Z. PLANE TURNS BACK. The Junkers flying boat, D 1230, left the Azores for Newfoundland with Little DHlen*, an Austrian actress, as a nassenger. The machine later turned back °n account of its being overweighted. — A. and N.Z. # REFORM OF LORDS.—In the House Commons the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, was asked whether it w as the intention of the Government to Present a Bill next session for the remrm of the House of Lords. Mr. Baldwin said he was not at present in •Position to make any statement on «« subject.—A. and N.Z. AUSTRALIAN LOANS- —The New South Wales Cabinet has decided :? adopt a financial agreement with We Commor wealth Government, but WkU it is ratified by Parliament the State will not particiPfte In the loan which the Commonwealth is now entering into on behalf members of the loan council. —A. and N.Z. .COLLAPSE of BRIDGE. —An extraordinary incident occurred in at the funeral of the "ooialist leader, Jose Glesias, who as murdered by Communists. A ridge over the River Jalon colirEf ed and Precipitated the hearse ‘"d coffin and 100 mourners into the th ei *‘ mourners were rescued from water, but 37 of them were injured. "A. and N.Z. OLD ROMAN RELICS. —When some " or > en w ere digging in London’s Weval clay, in order to sink foundathe “Daily Express's” new mv Wne ro °ms in Shoe Lane, they dis- ,, ere< 3 rows of burial urns containing w® calcined bones of Romans, who isrm crema .ed in London more than W.! ? ears a e° Eight of the urns ® r ® ‘"tact. These have been prethe London Museum. —A. and -JARBopr TCiTt (GOLD COAST. — Wat l3 ex Pccted that the great deep-S-ea r £ arb °ur, which for the past five , ra has been under construction at in the Gold Coast colony of *1 7 Africa, will be formally opened next March. Hitherto all b«» POr * s * rom the colony have had to down to the open roadt\v 8 - and steamers lying sometimes * Buies out to sea have been loaded IXI open surf-boats.—A. and N.Z. ••