NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 December 1925, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

TTEMS OF INTEREST. fl'i CABLE—PfiESS ASSOCIATION—COPVBIGHT Received Dec. I, 10.25 a.m. . BEIRiLIN, Nov. .30. _ During the British occupation of Cologne, eight 'hundred Tommies married German girl«.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aissn. LONDON, Nov. 29. As the first step taken in answer to the question: “What is to become of Wembley?” Monday's newspapers contain an advertisement that the whole of the land and buildings are for sale. Failing private sale, they will be auctioned in a single lot. The offer included 136 acres of land, and all the more permanent type of buildings like the former British Government pavilion, palaces of art, engineering and in* dustry. The stadium is included subject to the Football Association’s tenancy. The announcement states that the whole site and the halls present illimitable possibilities, whether for housing, trade, amusement or film production, VANCOUVER, Nov. 29. At Culvert City, California, travelling at: an average speed of 127.84 miles an hour, Frank Elliott establishedl a new world’s record in winning the 2'50-mile auto race. Four other world’s marks were broken by Earl Cooper, viz., the 75 miles, 100 miles. 150 miles and 200 miles, when he gave wav to Elliott. LONDON, Nov. 29. A crowd of Communist sympathisers, estimated at 1000, demonstrated outside Brixton prison; where Communists sentenced last week are imprisoned. A large force of police, including mounted men, prevented any disorder. The demonstrators addressed the crowd near the prison. SYDNEY, Nov. 30. When a tradesman knocked at the door of a house in Brook Street, Coogee, late this afternoon, a woman named Louisa Timson, a widow, who is a housekeeper there, staggered out bleeding profusely from deep cuts, in the head. She was taken to hospital in a critical condition. She had apparently been attacked with a hammer, -which was found nearby. The woman was unable to give a coherent account of how she received the injuries. The police are searching for visitors who are thought to have been at the house this afternoon. SYDNEY, Nov. 30. A heavy southerly gale at the. weekend caused extensive damage in the city and suburbs. HOBART, Nov. 30. While yachting in the Derwent river Richard Whittington, a prominent member of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and a skilled rifle shot, was swept overboard by a sudden squal and was drowned.