NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 February 1926, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OP INTEREST;

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRJGIII SYDNEY, Feb. 9.

Although small showers of rain temporarily checked the bush fires in the district between Albury and \\ agga, they have broken out again, and thousands of acres of grass and many miles of fences have been destroyed. The valuable State forests are also blazing fiercely, but reports from Victoria state that the serious fires there have burnt themselves out. PARIS, Feb. 9. The Government was defeated by 287 votes to 238 in the Chamber on a proposal to compel the exchange of bearer into inscribed bonds in order to prevent evasion of the income tax. The Government has no intention of resigning LONDON. Feb. 9. The Damascus correspondent of the Morning Post understands that M. de Jouvenal (French High Commissioner) has been instructed from Paris to make the best terms possible with the Druses, as men and money for a. further offensive are not forthcoming. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Eighteen men were rescued from the tug Wellington when she sank, following a collision with the tanker Admore during a gale off the New Jersey coast while "towing two barges. Erroneous reports .from Atlantic City on Sunday said that the drifter disappeared when one of the barges was cut away. Both the latter craft made shore under their own sail. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.

Mr. Benjamin Catchings’, a Washington lawyer, lias filed a petition in the United States Supreme Court, requesting that it should restrain Mi. Frank B. Kellog (Secretary of State) from carrying out steps to complete American adherence to the World Court, because the protocol wil create a tribunal higher than the Supreme Court because the protocol will create powers from the United States Government to the World Court, theie. l n - violating the American constitution.