IN 24 HOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 289, 7 December 1931, Page 7

IN 24 HOURS.

Complete Building of Bridge Near London. BRITISH UNDERTAKING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, December 6. Early this morning, at the Southgata station of the London and NorthEastern Railway, near London, an army of workmen, aided by all the latest mechanical devices, commenced work oiv the task of fixing'a new bridge, which is scheduled to be completed in 24 hours. The bridge will be 200 ft in length. Railway lines must be moved and 1000 tons of earth excavated. JThen the steel bridge, with a 70ft-span, is to be placed in position. All this is to be done without interfering with the normal train service. This remarkable effort, which depends for its success on the perfect organisation of labour and efficiency of British appliances, is being undertaken by the firm of Sir Robert Mac Alpine and Sons. SILVER PROBLEM. American Methods to Achieve Stabilisation. . AGREEMENT WITH INDIA. - WASHINGTON, December 6. Mr.- Silas -H. Strawn, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, announced at Spokane that plans had been prepared for an export sales agreement between the United, States silver producers and the Government of India to increase the" price of silver. < Mr. Strawn told the Western Division Convention of the-United States Chamber of Commerce that, the plans were worked out by a committee of • experts of the International Chamber of Commerce, and would be submitted to the council of the International Chamber when it meets at Paris on March 1. . He intimated that he expected favourable action at Paris, with an agreement by. the United States silver producers and the Government of India. Senator K. Pittman (Democrat, Nevada), sent a telegram to the president of the Silver Association of. the United States at Spokane that an agreement between the silver producers and India for stabilising the price of silver was impossible of accomplishment. Stabilisation could be achieved only through international agreement to stop debasing or melting circulating silvor coin. TREATY WITH BRAZIL. CANADA'S LATEST MOVE. OTTAWA, December 6. A commercial agreement between Brazil and Canada was signed provisionally on Friday. The agreement is now effective. The Canadian trade with Brazil is considerable. Canada receives a minimum tariff on all goods exported to Brazil under the provisional treaty. Canada is also given most-favoured nation treatment, entitling the Dominion free entry for Canadian fresh fruits. In return Canada grants Brazil her intermediate tariff. Previously imports from Brazil entered Canada under the general tariff. The treaty is made provisional because a treaty of a more y-ermanent character must have the approval of the Canadian Parliament before it becomes effective. At the next session of Parliament it is understood that a treaty will be submitted giving Brazil most-favoured nation treatment. IRISH SENATE. TIANNA FAIL GAINS. DUBLIN, December 6. The Irish Free State Senate triennial elections, by vote of the Lower House under the proportional representation system, resulted in the Government party securing nine seate, the Fianna Fail party seven, Independents five, Labour two. The Government lost two seats and the Independents one, all to the Fianna Fail. BOMB OUTRAGE. DARWIN DAMAGED. DARWIN, December 6. A bomb explosion wrecked the front of Sun Hing Kee's general store in the main thoroughfare yesterday morning. A number of Chinese were sleeping at°the rear of ;' e building, but not one was hurt. The shop is near the usual meeting | place of the local Communists. The outrage is attributed to someone of an unhinged mind, who, in last-minute fear, placed the bomb badly. Otherwise the damage would have been more extensive.