CABLE BREVITIES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2779, 24 November 1931, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES

THE INDIAN CONFERENCE, LONDON, Sunday. It is understood that the question! of the India Round-table Conference was considered by the Cabinet yesterday. The Prime Minister, Mr Mac Donald, has been devoting much of his?time in the last few days to the affiairat of the conference. AIR MAIL TO ENGLAND. DARWIN, Yesterday. The mail plane Southern Sun, ar>rived on Sunday afternoon. Following winds helped the craft along the averago speed being 105 miles an hour. Tho police are guarding the plane and' the mails all night. A message received to-day stated that the plane arrived at Koepang at 10.30 a.m. to-day and left an hour later for Bima. OIL TANKER AFIRE. SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday, Five people were killed- an a number injured when three heavy explosions and a fire wrecked a Standard Oil Conipmy's tanker at a peir in San Francisco. The vessel was discharging petrol at the time. LUSITANIA WRECK LONDON, Yesterday, The steel tube which the two Americans, Captain H. H. Eailey and Mr Simon Lake, propose to use in an attempt to salvage the Lusitania, cost £6OOO. It was constructed in 1908 for an attempt to recover £140,000 worth of gold sunk in 1799 in the British frigate Lutine, off the Dutch coast. IRISH SWEEPSTAKE. LONDON, Nov. 22. The Irish Free State sweepstakes have saved the Dublin hospital frontbankruptcy and they are now benefit-; ing the country hospitals. The four sweeps so far have yielded £1,980,000, which has been allocated to over 60hospitals.