NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 March 1926, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. WARSAW. March 29. A large consignment of Government naval stores at Pinsk was destroyed by a fire which .is attributed to Communist action. The material loss is heavy, hut no lives were lost. PARIS, March 29. Two Communists were returned at a Parliamentary by-election, for the second .sector of Paris. The. Radical-So-cialist executive urged its candidate to withdraw in favour of the Communists. ADELAIDE, March 29. The Trotting Club has decided to inaugurate ostrich racing at its meeting on Saturday next. Originally the club applied to the Royal Agricultural Society for permission to race birds on its showground, but the society refused. LONDON, March 28. The Times’ Riga correspondent reports that ZinoyiefF has been dismissed from the chairmanship of the Leningrad Executive Committee, owing to bis opposition to bis colleague’s policy. The brown heart appeal was dismissed by a majority, with costs. Mr .Justice Rankes, in delivering judgment, said there was no ground for imputing to the shipowners any want of care in reference to provision for ventilation in the ships’ holds. There was evidence that the fruit had ,been left on the trees too long. That might have had a, .material effect, producing susceptibility to disease. Mr Justice Sortition concurred. Mr Justice Atkin differed, holding that, the appellants had established beyond doubt that the damage to. the apples had occurred during transit.