NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 January 1925, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITALIAN CRISIS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. ROME, Jan. 8. An Opposition manifesto declares that the last stage of the conflict between the Fascist regime and the country has been -renohod. It condemns the suppression of newspapers and raids on private houses whereby the Government has degraded Italy in the eyes of the civilised world. The manifesto also declares that the crisis cannot be solved by engineered elections. EXTRADITION TREATY. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. The Canadian High Commissioner (Mr Lapointe) and Mr C. E. Hughes (United States Secretary of State), have signed a treaty between the United States and Canada for extradition'from one country to the other of citizens charged with the violation of the ijjm'cotic laws of the United States and of the Dominion.

btjtter down a penny. SYDNEY, Jan. 9. The wholesale price of butter has been reduced one penny per pound. MISSION TO ENGLAND. PERTH, Jan. 9. The Premier (Mr Collier) sails for England on January 19. His mission is connected with finance, migration and the proposed purchase of the Midland Railway Company’s property. CANADA’S FRONTIER. "OTTAWA, Jan. 8. “It is impossible to talk greater nonsense,” declared the Premier (Mr L. McKenzie King) referring to a stateraent in th-e London Morning Post that , the separation of Canada from the Empire was being, discussed in Canada. SHAW’S PLAYS BANNED. LONDON, Jan. 9. The Riga correspondent of the Daily Express states : “In consequence of Mr Bernard Sharv’s criticism of Marxian socialism being out of date, Zino.vieff has banned the production of Mr Shaw’s plays in Leningrad.”

DECLINING BIRTH-RATE. POSITION IN BRITAIN. LONDON, Jan. 9. Mr Robert Blair, late, education officer in London, speaking at a northern education conference, quoted startling figures showing the declining birthrate. He said the Board of Education was budgeting for 1.000,000 less primary scholars than they had budgeted for in 1910. Bv 1928 there would be 2,000.000 fewer workers in Britain. WINTER, SPORTS MISHAP. BERNE, Jan. 8. Lady Coghlan and her son Austin both broke a leg when skiing at winter sports near Moritz. A Swiss guide, noticed them when attempting;' a precipitous slope to fall and lie motionless in the snow. He hurried to the rescue and conveyed the injured people by a sleigh to hospital.

ARCHBISHOP MANNIX. LONDON. Jan. 9. The Catholic Times alludes to the veto placed in 1920 on ArchLisnop Mannix’s visit to Ireland, and expresses the hope that he will go; there after attending the Lourdes pilgrimage in April.