Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

-OCH OUT OF DANGER.—A mespS ® from Paris says that Marshal ‘■ocn is now reported to be out of danger.—A.P.A. -kU IN' TOKYO.—As a result of ontinued drought and an epidemic of nensa in Tokyo. 35 deaths a day are JCcurring.—A.P.A. DEATH. A rh' eg I am from Norfolk Island reports her, *a' h ° f Mr - Justice C. E. Merit. f-f the island since •«arch. 1928, at the age of 68. —A.P.A. '-ABRIELLA REFLOATED. The Gabriellu. which wont aground - -Nelson s Bay three days ago, was a£ to-day. She was not clam- ' ’ x . ancl has now sailed from Sydney Zealand ports.—'A.P.A. , AIR FLEETS.—There are holm commercial airplanes in the the t* these France owns S6O, Dir« --o ted States 520, the British Em--40 J? ermany 212 - Japan 50, Italy ana Belgium 32. —A.P.A. TREASURY LORD.—Captain Uan Wallace, Conservative Janior° r f£? rnsey * has been appointed reed it- , rd of tlie Treasury to suc(wff* Howe (formerly Viscount Who re cemly resigned on seeding to the title.— A.P.A. • XjlP MILLION TJCENC'ES.—Wireare possessed by one family Ifl SoftM * our in England, one in seven i n TTii and and and one in 11 Fifty thousand new the An«t Were Issued in December at p r> r , w hich month licence hold's totalled 2,625,392. A.P A. Elections.— The ItalThe rliamem his been dissolved, "ill Kji^w^° ns und<l r the new system fi nr z-,, 6 on March 24. The preslai £r amb€r oC De P uties was abolished rom«‘ !?’■ A uew Fascist Chamber. h v * IJ®- 400 members, to be selected He Grand Council from a list to tuttr»« PP eci by corporations and instin *» will be substituted.—A.P.A.