Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 886, 1 February 1930, Page 11

Cable Jottings

STEAMER ItKAC FT ES PORT.—The Glasgow steamer Barrhill, 4.972 tons, from Hull to Melbourne, which sent a wireless message on January 28 saving she needed repairs, has arrived at Gibraltar. SAL NATION ARMY CHANGE.— Commissioner Hugh AVhatmore, who has been in charge of the Salvation Army’s territory in Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, is retiring Re is unable to name his successor. COST op THE DOLE. —In the House of Commons, the Minister of Gabour, Miss Margaret Bondfield, stated that the average weekly amount of unemployment benefit paid to 1,000,000 persons claiming benefit their dependants in J 929 was £790.000. FORGERY TRIAL.—\V hen counsel in the trial of Professor Karunidze and six others in Berlin for forgery of Russian notes, sought to prove that the Bolshevik Government was the author of the notes, the judge refused to admit the evidence. Ho contented nimself with affirming that the court was willing to recognise the general Principle that forging banknotes is a political weapon, employed by States engaged in hostile intrigue against •Uacr States.