Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

NEW SOUTH WAlfa FIBE.— A firo occurred yesterday at the township cf Ulmarra, near Grafton. Eight shops and dwellings were destroyed. HISTORIAN'S FORTUNE. Sir George Trevelyan, 0.M., the wellknown historian. who died last August, left a fortune amounting to £556,933. — A.P.A. CItIeK KT E R RECOVERING. — Geary, the English cricketer nose was broken on Saturday, is recovering. He left the hospital at Perth to-day.—A.P.A. MARSEILLES STRIKE.—The Paris correspondent of “The Times’’ says the seamen’s strike ‘at Marseilles is holding up 10,000 would-be passengers.—Times cable. TWO FLYERS KILLED.—A sudden, violent gust of wind tore off one wing of a plane which crashed at the town of Oxford, near Boston. The pilot, Brisbois, and a passenger were killed. —U.S. FORGED BANKNOTES.—-Spurious £lO notes appeared at the Caulfield races, Melbourne, on Saturday. It is believed they are identical with those given to bookmakers at the same meeting a year ago, and that they originated from the same gang of Sydney forgers. AN AMAZING FLIGHT. —Miss Eleanor Smith on Sunday at New York flew in a plane beneath four of the great East River bridges in succession. Recently Miss Smith established a new altitude record for American —United Service. OltE V(,'LIFFE ('LAIMS. The Sydney harbour disaster of November 3. 1927, when the ferry steamer Greycliffe was sunk in a collision with the Tahiti, is recalled by the announcement that only 13 days are left in which compensation claims may be lodged. Matters relating to the disaster are before the Privy Council, upon whose decision many cases depend.