Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

SENTENCE COMMUTED—The New South Wales Cabinet commuted the ■ leath sentence passed on Alister Clark on March 20 to imprisonment for life. BOXING IN SYDNEY.—At the Ueichhardt Stadium on Thursday evening, in a boxing contest for the light-weight championship of Austra'ia, Norman Gillespie (Victoria) won ' the title from Billy Jones in 15 rounds on points. PRIZES FOR FILMS.—TInf Commonwealth Government has decided to offer prizes, valued at £IO,OOO. the first of which will be worth £5,000, for scenarios for Australian films composed on Australian themes and with Australian settings. ZEPPELIN’S FLIGHT—The German airship Graf Zeppelin, which left Toulon on Thursday for Friedrichshafen, arrived at her destination early yesterday morning.—A.P.A.-U.S. BREWERS’ EXHIBITION. —At the Brewers’ Exhibition the usual Empire competitions are to be held in November for wines under and over 27 degrees of alcoholic strength. Entries w-.il close on October 15.—A. and N.Z.P.A. NO MORE MARSHALS. The French Council of Ministers has decided to discontinue appointing Marshals to the armv. The honour will lapse with the ‘deaths of Marshals Retain, Joffre, Lyautey and O’Esperey. ‘ A. and N.Z.-P.A. FLIGHT TO ENGLAND. —FlightLieutenant Ulm. in an interview in Melbourne, said preparations were Proceeding for the Southern Cross to make the flight to England. He expected they would be well on their journey within two months, when the leather should be more settled. NEW FRENCH BUDGET The Paris correspondent of "The Times that according to the French Budget the revenue for 1930 is expected to total £393,000,000. The estimated surplus is £453,000. A reduction of £12,000.000 in taxation is fore- ' as t, including remissions on income —Times Cable. workers fired at. —shots were 9red last evening at some men employed in a Sydney timber yard. Nobody was injured. The incident occurred in Canterbury, a suburb of Sydney, while tho men were returning to their homes. Efforts to settle the ‘miber-workers’ strike have broken 'town. The trades union representaIlv 'es at Melbourne rejected the employers' terms,