NEWS IN BRIEF.

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

NEWS IN BRIEF.

STEAMER OVERDUE. ■

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT APIA, Nov; 19. 7 : A wireless warriing has keen' issufed asking ships to keep a lookout for the steamer Dawn, which left Funafuti for Suva on October 30, arid is now overdue/' AID FOR REFUGEES. ATHENS, Nov. 18. It is officially announced that Britain, France, arid America ;fraye consented to' increase the refugees’ loan from £6,000,000 to £10,000,000, arid practically all formalities' have been completed'. Britain’s initiative in creating goodwill towards the loan and the refugee cause is appreciated. HONOUR FOR SOCIALIST/ PARIS, Nov. 18. The Senate, by 176 votes to 66, favoured the^grgranting. ,of credit amounting td§*oso,ooo francs for the removal to the Pantheon. 1 of the remains of Jean Jaures/. the Socialist leader, who was assassinated on the outbreak of war in 1914 / PRINCE’S APPRECIATION. LONDON, Nov. 18. The Prince of Wales has sent a letter to the Duke of " Devonshire, requesting him to convey to the press of the Empire his sincere gratitude for its patriotic, help in connection with the Wembley Exhibition, the success of which was largely attributable to the assistance of the press. GERMANY’S DEBTS. LONDON, Ndv. 19. In connection, with the allocation of Germany’s pre-war public debts in respect to transferred territories, the reparation comniission decided that Belgium’s share: was 640,609 gold marks, Danzig’s 5,763,879 gold marks, Poland’s (for Upper "Silesia) 1,750,361 gold marks, arid Poland’s for other territories 17,121,458 gold marks.

ALL BLACKS IN LONDON. LONDON, Nov. 19. The New Zealand footballers yesterday visited the Houses of Parliament, and were entertained at tea in the House of Lords. . SCOPE OF THE LAW. w LONDON, Nov. 18. An Order-in-Council has been issued extending, cart two of the Administration qf Justice Act, 1920, to Victoria. , judgments obtained there will be enforceable in England, Scotland, and Ulster, and vice versa.