NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 December 1925, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST, iY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Dec. 15, 11.15 a.m. BRISBANE, Dec. 15. Three children named Gormley, two brothers and a sister, whose ages range from three to nine years, fell into a water-hole in the V est End and were drowned. . The cyclone at Cliarleville unrooted many buildings in the city, and caused extensive damage to the country. (Received Dec. 15, 10.25 a.m.) VIENNA, Dee. 13. Eighteen Roumanian sentries were found in the mountains frozen to death. SYDNEY, Dec. 14. A fire totally destroyed the Granton knitting mills at Balmain. The damage is estimated at £20,000. About 100 employees have been rendered idle. SYDNEY, Dec. 14.

The crew of the William Mitchell are suffering from typhus pneumonia. (A message received yesterday stated that the nature of the l disease at first baffled the port medical authorities.) LONDON, Dec. 13.

Nearly a thousand influential citizens, including Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. J. R. dynes, M.P., Air. T. P. O’Connor, ALP., Lieut.-Colonel It. V. K. Applin, M.P., and Brigadier-General G. K. Cockerill, ALP., petitioned the Cool Commission, urging, on the grounds of humanity, that it should make a close examination of the possibility of sub stituting mechanical for pony haulage in coal mines.

The Daily Chronicle states that investigations do not substantiate the amazing claims of Mr. Hunter Rogers, of Middlegreen, Slough. An examination of the ground of the Marquis of Northampton’s Warwickshire estate, where alleged manuscripts of Shakespeare’s plays were found, shows no trace of excavations, and the gardener ridicules the possibility of midnight digging. The British Museum authorities report that alleged Shakespearean signatures in Rogers ’ books are forgeries.

The Chronicle recalls that Rogers on a previous occasion discovered a number of old pictures and sold them for £I2OO, but their real value was laW found to be £2O. ROME, Dec. 13. Voluntary subscriptions raised by Italians to pay the debt to Americ.-. havo passed ninety million lire. LONDON. Dec. 13, P'ans are being discussed for providing bowling greens and hard tennis courts alongside Parliament, for the use of members who have to remain within the call of the division bell. — A. and N.Z. Assn. LONDON, Dec. 14. The novelist, W. E. Norris, left £19,000, and Professor Lefroy left £1268. — A. , and N.Z. Asn. SYDNEY, Dec. 14. An unusual number of motor accidents marred the week-end. A woman, a man and a child were killed, and 25 people were injured in various smashes. SYDNEY, Dec. !4. The strike in Ryland’s wire factory has been settled, the employee who caused the dispute having joined the union. PERTH, Dec. .'4. The Government Statistician estimates the wheat harvest yield at 20,792,000 bushels, an increase of 769,184 bushels as compared with the previous harvest. BRISBANE, Dec. 14. Heavy rains in the Central and Northern portions of the State have assured a successful sugar crop. Th». rain was badly needed, and if.it had not fa hen it would have meant the failure of the cane crop in many districts. The Burdekin, and! Fitzroy Rivers districts are threatened with floods. SYDNEY. Dec. 14. At the Newcastle races, Robert Gee, in the Nursery Handicap of 4-)- .furlongs, broke the Australasian record, covering the distance in 54 seconds. The previous record was held by Woorak. ADELAIDE, Dec. L 4. The coastal steameer Paringa is held up, the wharf labourers declining to work her on the grounds that her seamen helped to fm’oad her cargo at one of the coastal ports.