NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 April 1926, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, April 6. The finest Easter for .50 years ended with glorious bank holiday weather. There were unprecedented outdoor crowds, with a record number of motorists on the roads.

SYDNEY, April 6. At the Sydney Royal Show, the Commonwealth standing wood-chop-ping championship, 15-inch logs, was won by C. Weston, of Victoria. W. Weston, of Victoria, was second, and L. Appo, of New Zealand and New South Wales, was third. Following the decision of the Australian Labour Conference to debar members of Parliament from holding office on the executive of the Australian 'Labour Party, Mr Carey, one of the recent appointees to the Legislative Council, has I’esigned from that body in order to stand again for election to the executive of the party. Mr Carev was secretary to the party. ATHENS, April 5. Pangalos obtained 90 per cent of the votes cast in the Presidential election, which has been held in 12 departments so far. MELBOURNE,-April 6. At the conference of the Victorian Labour Party, a resolution was passed excluding Communists from membership of the party. A substantial surplus in the Commonwealth revenue is anticipated at the end of the financial year. The Customs revenue for nine months totals £29,910,872, ns compared- with an estimated revenue of £27,900,000. Dr. Daniel MacGillicuddy has been arrested on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Mrs Law, whose body was found early in the morning of March 25 in a sitting posture against a tree near a road- in Oakleigh. An examination of deceased revealed the fact that death had followed a certain operation. Mrs Mary Hudson, a nurse, is also under arrest on a charge of murder in connection with the affair. >

GENEVA, April 5. The body of Madame Jurewskaia, a Berlin opera singer, has been found in a. frozen alpine stream under the Devil’s Bridge. near Andermatt. Madame Jurewskaia disappeared from her hotel in December last. The guides recovered her body with ice axes. It was in perfect condition except that the left hand was almost severed. This recalled the fact that a blood-stained razor was found on the river hank.