Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

— SK °F Kl.l■:< :ti;ti ■ivy _ti,. Britcommissioners have just I Published returns which show that in during l ast year the use of K* u ,citjr for all purposes increased > D per cent. j 'N POI’PIBS.—The British . nf°v is sending to the Australian I ;* Aew Zealand Ex-Servicemen’s as souv enirs replicas of imc ° ' ict °riu Crosses made of FlanA Poppies. These crosses decorated h«i at the dinner given to the ] v ? era Victoria Crosses by the •nee of Wales on November 9. '7APITAL PUNISHMENT. The e Commons has agreed to a select committee to conn tlle Question of capital punish- * nn in cases tried by civil courts in ‘ n Peace. The committee is to whether in its opinion another Mhftv* anci so what nature, : >no ” bo substituted for the senhat,e dea tii in such cases in which o\v Son * ence Is now prescribed by IN SWORDFISH.—A mesj£ortl Ilalifax - Nova Scotia, says mmS? 1 ™ catc bing in unprecedented ilia il* bas provided a fortune for 1 ( v,, l U f ,herDlf ‘ n of the historic town of hnn i rg in recent weeks. Seventeen 3<mik 11 Wero caught, weighing from tr» 1o TOOJb. each, and were sold wh«- C * ,es * n Boston and New York, i f WOP( !y” meat is considered a delicacy. They represent a har- ■ e *» 9Z £160,000, - i