NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 January 1926, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

♦ ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Jan. 2. The Admiralty is asking tenders for the lirst big contract in connection with the naval base at Singapore, a fifty thousand ton floating dock. ROME, Jan. 2. Two violent earthquake shocks were felt in Venice last night, lasting twelve seconds each. There was a violent tremor at. Trieste, but there are no details of the damage. Venice was wrapped in" a thick fog when suddenly it was illuminated by flashes produced by the destruction of electric wires. A crash of stones followed. The people were seized with panic and many fled from the cinemas and theatres, which were crowded at the time. SYDNEY, Jan. 3. The Maroubra speedway provided another sensational accident before a crowded ground, when a car travelling at 9<> miles an hour crashed into a fence. The mechanic, William McCormack, sustained two fractured legs, but the driver was not injured. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.

The broadcasting from London in an elaborate radio world wide test is declared to be a success in messages received from persons in all parts of the United States. The American programme was heard re-broadcast as successfully in England, according to a cable from the .British Broadcasting Company, London. LONDON, Jan. 2. The London and Central markets report that imported supplies of meat, poultry, butter, eggs and rabbits, exeluding Ireland, formed 80 per cent, of the total quantity marketed during 1925. New Zealand and Australia con tributed 18-J per cent, to this of, in other words, 80,000 tons. The highest contributor was Argentine (40 pm cent.). Australia and New Zealand lead in tin 1 mutton and lamb section, sending 08,000 tons, equivalent to 53 per cent, of the 791 per cent., representing the proportion of imports to the whole.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.

American Samoa, was .struck on Friday by the inos't severe storm experienced for more than twenty years. Pngopago Bay is covered with much wreckage, including the debris of small buildings.

Several persons were slightly injured. The water system and power lines were considerably damaged.