NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 December 1924, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

•> RECEIVED in silence,. BY CABLE—PRESS ‘ ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. ‘ Received Dec. 16, 1.30 p.m. CAPETOWN, Dec. 15.' -Messages- front-Fort Louis-state- that public indignation is . .being expressed owing to the allegation, that women on the Cigale-; werb; abandoned. The captain, officers: and’ other 1 survivors arrived at Port /Louis and were . received in silence^-, i\ ■■ [The Cigale caught -firt-iiitcsea, and it was alleged, ; wbmdh; t iind children were left to perish while the captain, officers and- others escaped in the boats.] ’ *. - , ~ / LQANv. -OET'ERED. (Rec-eivediDecr 16, 10.15 a.m.) \ SYDNEY, Dec. 16. ; Thp. Ne.w/South Waleg. .Government \ have by/ , influential 1 American financial' interests?- and offered a substantial loan at a reasonable- rat©yof interest;'• -Details 1 offer have noF been officially'discldsed-, \ but jit is are: now in progress on behalf of New l South Wales for raising aJoanof about £6,000,000,. \vhichj .it is stated, will be ; utilised,.in.- meqtingr cominitmentsxfalling djiftv.in £ X*9ndon,j' The- American °ffer will probably not be.vaccepted, particularly if the money can Be obtained .in-.-London on favourable terms. AMBASSADORIAL IMMUNITY. (Received Dec. 16, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 15. Mr Amery announces that Mr Churchill has agreed to the representatives >of . the Dominions in London receiving full ambassadorial immunity from taxation and license fees. MANY LIVES LOST. mv . TOIvIO, Dec. 15. , 1 lie Kivanto carried 207, of whom 111-were saved. Fifty-two dead bodies have been recovered and fourty-four are still missing. . [The Japanese warship Kwanto foundered in a storm.] BELLBIRD MINING DISASTER. SYDNEY, Dec. 15. The last two. : bodies of the Bellbird mining disaster victims, Cornes and Hartley, have been discovered. FREEMAN’S JOURNAL. ■ LONDON, Dec. 15. A receiver lias been appointed to administer the, affairs Ipf Freeman's Journal, Dublin, and a week’s notice has been given the staff. It is understood that the, Republicans, headed by Countess Markievicz. with Mary Macswiney as. second in command, are tailing possession of the paper. Both support De Valera. SEVERE STORM. MELBOURNE, Dec. 15. Boisterous weather between Wngga and Melbourne interfered with telegraphic communication with Melbourne. The telegraph lines are down. MONARCH AS TARGET. - ! ' LONDON. Dec. 13. The Admiralty has decided to use the battleship Monarch, to he destroyed under the Washington agreement, as a target in highly confidential gunnery exercises, in which the results of the war’s lessons will he tested. GERMAN POLITICS. LONDON, Dec. 15. The Times’ Berlin correspondent says that Marx has definitely given up negotiations with various parties in re-ga7-d to the formation of a new Government. and the initiative now passes into the hands of Ebert and Stresemann to form a Government. Stresemann, who is suffering from a chill, is at present in a sanatorium, lmt is expected to return to Beilin on December 17