Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

PAPER SUPPRESSED.—The Egyptian Government has suppressed the Alexandria Nationalist newspaper “Wadinnil” for publishing matter touching the dignity of the King.— A.P.A.-U.S. DISASTER AT SEA. —A message trom Iquique, Chile, says at least 17 persons were drowned when the Chinan steamer Quintero sank after colliding with the steamer America off Punta Patche.—A.P.A.-LJ.S. FOUL, PLAY LIKELY.—The body of Alfred Allan, who had been missing for some days from the Melton district, Melbourne, was discovered yesterday in a tent. He had been stabbed over the heart, and had a gunshot wound in his body, and other injuries. It is believed that he was murdered, as the sun which evidently was used is missing. MIGRANTS TO CANADA. —The Canadian Minister of Immigration, Mr. P- Fork©, announced that the British Government and the British steamship lines had reached an agreement to institute a £lO passage rat© to Canada for all British migrants, in place of the old rat© of £l9. The new arrangement will come into force on January A.P.A.-U.S, CHINESE EXECUTED. —The Chinese law student, Chiang Yi Miao, who murdered his young wife while they on their honeymoon, was executed a t Manchester on Thursday. No relatives or compatriots were present. This is stated to be probably owing to the fact that before his death Miao professed Christianity.—A. and N.Z.-P.A. DEATHS IN A MINE.—A message from Lima, Peru, says that deaths variously estimated to number from 27 to 64 are believed to have resulted from the flooding of a gallery in the CamPano mine, near the Andean mining c ity of Morococha. The disaster was p aused by the bed of a pond subsiding 80 that the water poured into the shaft.