NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 March 1926, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, March 24. It is anticipated that when negotiations are resumed to-morrow with the coastal shipowners and the Trades Hall dispute committee the strike will be settled; the union having agreed to sign an agreement providing against job control. ' , LONDON, March 23. . Sir Joseph Cook, High Commissioner for Australia, is supporting the London press proposal that some of the leading statesmen of the Dominions should attend Geneva as well as the Imperial Conference. OTTAWA, March 23. The House of Commons would be given an opportunity to discuss the Locarno agreement after the Easter recess, the Premier, Mr. L. Mackenzie King, informed members. LONDON. March 23. The Daily Express understands that the Cu Harder s Alaunia, Lancastria, Tuscania. Caron ia, and Cannania will make London their home port, instead of Liverpool, at the beginning ol April. .Mrs. 'Louisa Baker, authoress and novelist, for fifty years a oontributoi to the Otago Witness, died of burns at Deal, owing to an oil stove upsetting. She was writing an article on New Zealand when she met with the accident.