Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 444, 28 August 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

BECKETT >S BUDGET.—Sitting 1: Chambers at Sydney, Mr. Justic James made an order for the restore - tion to the reegister of Beckett’s m v - paper, “The Budget.” It was recen.l removed from the register by • of the Postmaster-General. DESPERATE BANDITS. —Advices from Ixmisville. Kentucky, state that machine-gun bandits turned a .stream of leaden bullets upon 22 gamblers in a fishing camp casino. They wounded four players and escaped with £4.000. firing from a motor-car as they fled. — U.S. FASCIST BOYCOTT.—Signor Turati, general secretary of the Fascist.-, has ordered all the branches of the organisation to exclude foreign wines, including champagne, from banquet Tlio newspaper “Impero*’ says this is only the beginning of a boycott of French goods. It will soon be extended to perfumes and dresses A.P.A. STRAIT S SEC MET A K Y. —M r. John Scott, Chief Secretary of the Tanganyika Territory, has been appointed Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements. He will succeed Sir Hayes Marriott. Mr. Douglas J. Jardine, Deputy Chief Secretary of the Tanganyika Territory, will succeed Mr. Scott as Chief Secretary.—British Official Wireless. PEACE IX INDUSTRY. —The general council of the British Trades Union Congress, in its annual report, recommends the establishment of a National Industrial Council of employers and employees, together with the necessary conciliation machinery, on the lines of the Mond Conference. The recommendation will come before the Trades Union Congress on September 3, when it is expected to b*2 endorsed.—A.P.A. SWIMMING AT OSLO.—At tl ! Norwegian swimming championship Knud Olsen (Norway) won the 1<»*» metres in 66 2-ssec. T. Boast i (Queensland) was second. His time j was 67 7-10 sec. In the 400 metres ! handicap A. Charlton (Australia) sixth, though his time was the best. • namely, smin Bsee. The winner was Ragnar Lund (Sweden), time 6min ! 14sec—A-P. A.-TT.S. ! BULGAK’S BATTLE. The Koffii correspondent of “The Times** says ro- ■ ports from Macedonian sources state that 14 revolutionary supporters of the j late General Protogeroff. who were i visiting the southern districts to investigate the popular movement against the Mlchailoff party, were annihilated by partisans of the latter. This was the culmination of a desperate fight near Mekhomia.—Times Cable.