NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 October 1924, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

LIQUOR SMUGGLERS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Oct. 18. A Boston, telegram says that three steamers and sixteen schooners form “Rum Row,” approximately eighteen miles east of the Boston light. According to officials, apparently the vessels are coming nor th‘as a result of coastguard activity in the neighbourhood of New York. , LOAN FOR GERMANY. LONDON, Oct, 18. The financial editor of the Morning Post says it is estimated that applications for the £12,000,000 British portion of the Dawes loan amounted to between £150,000.000 and £160,000,000. THE GREENOCK EXPLOSION. LONDON, Oct. 17. Regarding the explosion of an oxygen cylinder, which fell from a lorry in a street in Greenock, as the result of which a tramcar was wrecked and twenty people sent to hospital, the British Oxygen Company, in a .statement, say that the accident was due to a cylinder of dissolved acetylene falling from, a lorry, but the cause of its ignition has not yet been ascertained. THE IRISH DISPUTE. LONDON, Oct. 18. The Irish Free State Senate has passed the Boundary Bill. The Senate carried a resolution in favour of a settlement by agreement. PERILS OF THE UNDERGROUND. BRUSSELS, Oct. 17. Fifteen men .were entombed as the result of a heavy fall In a colliery at Flenu, in which work had just been resumed after a strike. Two bodies have been recovered. CRIME ON THE INCREASE. NEW YORK, Oct. 18. The city’s 1925 budget is tentatively placed at approximately four hundred million dollars, the largest on record. It includes two millions for police, giving the city one thousand additional policemen, two million for street cleaning, a million and a half for increased salaries for minor city officials, and a million for the Board of Child Welfare. THE ZEPPELIN PLANT. NEW YORK, Oct. 18. The. destruction of the Zepplin plant in accordance with the Versailles Treaty would be a crime against civilisation. said Mr. C. G. Grey, edito- of the Journal of Aviation, of London, at a banquet honouring the German crew of the ZRI3. the Zeppelin which flew from Germany to America. Mr. Grey said he spoke for the great majority of English people. WILD BEASTS ESCAPE. ROME, Oct, 18. A telegram from Turin says that p locomotive shunting at Galsuo collided with a van containing a travelling menagerie, and a lion, three hears and a hyena escaped. The lion was injured and was easily captured. The tears trotted to the ' market place, the populace fleeing. There the hears ■ose on their hind legs and ho 2 an to dance until the arrival of their keeper. The hyena was captured in a tunnel after several hours’ hunting. ANOTHER EVEREST EXPEDITION. LONDON. Oct. 1«. At a meeting of the Oeogranhical Society the EaH 0 f Ronaklshay ("Governor of Bengal) announced that" the Everest, committee intended to apply immediately through the Government of India for the permission of the Tibetan Government to make another attempt on Everest in 1926. ROYAL SHOW ENTRIES.

PALMERSTON N.. Oof.. ](). Entries for the first Royal Show in New Zealand, to be held at Palmerston North on November 4,5, and 6, closed on Saturday, form a record for Manawatu shows, the total being 4413 as against 3591 last year, which was previously the highest figure.