BRIEF ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 119, 17 February 1928, Page 10

BRIEF ITEMS

FROM FAR AND NEAR Flour Cheaper in Sydney.—The Sydney Millers’ Association has reduced the price of flour by 10s. to £l2 ss. a ton.— Press Assn. Vote for Prohibition Enforcement.— The United States House of Representatives voted 12,729,000 dollars for prohibition enforcement, and 28,640,000 for the coastguard, including the rum-chas-ing activities.—Press Assn. Los Angeles Murder Trial.—The trial has commenced at Los Angeles of Edward Hickman and a youthful companion named Welby Hunt for the murder ci a chemist named Ivo Thoms.— Press Assn. Unemployment in America.—Senator Robert AVagner (New York) has introduced a resolution for Senatorial investigation into the unemployment in America, which, according to him, "has assumed very serious proportions," says a Press Association message from Washington. ® Anglo-Egyptian Discussion—Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. G. Locker-Lampson, Foreign Under-Secretary, said that the discussion between the British and Egyptian Governments was still in progress in Cairo. He hoped, however, that they would be concluded in the near future. —British Official Wireless. The Oil Scandal.—A Press Association message from Washington says that Harry Blackmer, the oil man who fled to Europe to escape testifying in the Teapot Dome scandal, gave 5000 dollars to the Coolidge Campaign Fund in 1924, according to Chairman Nye, of the Senate Teapot Dome Committee, who stated that investigators who were inspecting the campaign contributions filed with the House ascertained that Black, mor- had sent this amount from a hiding place in Europe. 5 „Fatal Fall From Horse.—Campbell McKinnon, aged 55, who was thrown from a horse at Middlemarch and suffered from a fractured skull, died in Dunedin Hospital yesterday morning.—Press Assn. Female Sly-grogger Fined.—A Dalmatian woman named Patricia Anich was fined at Auckland yesterday by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., for keeping a slygrog shop at 61 Victoria Street.—Press Assn. Accident on Wharf.—While working in Shed 11 on the Queen’s Wharf yesterday afternoon, G. Corrigal, a watersider, had both of his hands caught in a winch. Corrigal was, admitted to the Public Hospital suffering from badly crushed and lacerated hands. ...“Not the Driest Season.”—“To my knowledge this is not the driest season that this district has known,” said Mr. A. Walker, at yesterday’s meeting of the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board. "Tn the summer of 1315 all the spiings on the eastern side of the harbour—springs which had been running for years—dried up. The past six weeks certainly have been very dry, but there are still a number of springs running.” Just on Six Centuries.—Played on the Thorndon Bowling Club’s green yesterday, a friendly match, in which Messrs. H. Hedley (Wagga Wagga) and S'. J. Clancy (Sydney) took part, was remarkable for the fact that the aggregate of the ages of the eight players was 585 years.