NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 January 1925, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE GLASGOW EVICTIONS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Dec. 30. A few hours after the sheriff’s officers departed from Clydebank the crowd restored the four evicted families to their houses. The authorities appreciate the futility of the evictions, but are relying on such efforts to compel the Government to intervene. INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION. MELBOURNE, Dec. 31. Barristers, doctors, engineers and other members of professions in the departments of the different States have applied to the Commonwealth Ar. bitration Court for _ registration as an industrial organisation. italianlpolitics. ROME, Dec. 30. Another crisis is brewing in Italy. M, Salandra has resigned the presidency of the budget committee, on the ground of age anil other duties, but it, is understood the real reason is the avoidance of responsibility for the present political situation, Cabinet met urgently to consider this, and it is rumoured other resignations are pending. Tt is believed that the Ministry, which was reconstructed after the Matteotti crime, will again be remodelled shortly.

PERILS OF THE SEA. CAPETOWN, Dec. 31. The steamer Diogenes picked" up an S.O.S. on December 30, saying: “We are sinking.” It is believed the message emanates from the Norwegian steamer Erivan, which wirelessed on December 27 from Kerguelen that she was sailing for Capetown on December 29 with 10,000 barrels of oil. COMMUNISTS CHARGED. CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 30. In order to test the legality of the Communist movement the public prosecutor instituted proceedings against three Communist leaders for high treason in connection with an agitation to precipitate a revolution. SOLDIERS HOLD UP TRAIN. PEKIN, Dec. 31. Five of Chang-So-Lin’s soldiers held up a train from Pekin to Tientsin and looted about 1000 dollars from firstclass passengers, only one Chinese 'being robbed.

THE LAST KNOCK-OUT. SYDNEY, Dec. 31. During a boxing bout at the Stadium between Tibby Wafson and Reg. Anderson, the latter was knocked out and later succumbed to his injuries.