Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 689, 14 June 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

GREEK PRESIDENT Admiral Oonduriolis, who was appointed Provisional President of the Greek Republic on 4, 1926, has been elected President. GAOL FOR SLASHER Ernest Steward, aged 28, lias been sentenced at Sydney to imprisonment lor two years for wounding with a razor his former wife, from whom he was divorced. MINISTER ALOFT—The Federal Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. P. P. Abbott, and six other passengers have left Sydney in the air liner Canberra on a flight to the Northern Territory *nd Central Australia. Captain L. Holden is the pilot. STUDENT FlNED—Virgil LOschi*v°» who was arrested when the university undergraduates created the disorders at the Sydney Cenotaph on May 21, was yesterday convicted and nned £3. in default 14 days’ imprisonment. The charge was riotous behaviour. NEW RADIO STATIONS—The Australian Postmaster-General, Mr. W. G. vribson, announces that tenders have accepted for the erection of two tv. W Austra li a n broadcasting stations, they will be of much higher power man the present A class station acquired under the national scheme. SAFETY AT SEA--’ The number of Passengers drowned at sea represents ~o ne for every 20,000,000 miles said Mr. Denholm, presif? 1 . 01 the International Maritime at Newcastle. “When one In ers risks run by pedestrians v cities it will be appreciated safe is sea travelling.”—A.P.A.MOVIES—The London Uu! in A y i Council lias decided to allow . _ '-?i lse um and Alhambra to be on Sundays for movie and tfin.** c s eenin S s - There is a condi*miv « at employees shall work . * days a week. This decision regarded as the first step toward a 4 t ‘ ninfc ull theatres on Sun—A. U nd N.Z.P.A,