NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 June 1926, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE- -TRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT, LONDON, June 17. A German fleet appeared in the English Channel to-day for the first time since the war. Six vessels steamed past the Goodwin Sands, passing the scenes of the immortal fights with the Dover patrols ROME, June 17. Captain Padovarni, the founder of Fascism in Naples, was addressing a crowd in celebration of “Our Birthday,” when the balcony on which he and his friends were standing collapsed, precipitating them into the street. Padovarni and eight others were killed and five were seriously injured. LONDON, June 18. Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, against whom a receiving order has been -issued at the instance of a moneylender, estimates his debts at £IO,OOO. He attributes his position to extravagance, heavy interest on borrowed money, and the cost of fighting elections. It is revealed that when he was engaged as a war correspondent he was paid l £2OOO a year.

LONDON, June 17. Captain Thomas Plumer, son of Field-Marshal Plumer, has been examined in bankruptcy. His liabilities were £1346, and the only assets a pair of cuff links valued at 50s. The chief cause of his bankruptcy was a prosecution for being drunk in charge of a motor-car. The case was dismissed, but cost him- £IOOO. The debts of his former bankruptcy were paid in full by selling; his life interest in his father’s grant from the nation. LONDON, June 17.

In the House of Commons, Sir H. Brittain inquired whether negotiations were in progress for continuing the airship service from India to Australia.

Sir S. Hoarse (Minister for Air) stated that no actual negotiations were in progress, and they had every hope that the present scheme of airship development would lead to a regular service to Australia. LONDON, June 18. Mademoiselle Regine Flory, the noted French actress, was discovered shot dead in a room in the Drury Lane Theatre.

Mdlle Flory, accompanied by a woman friend, entered the theatre and conversed with an official regarding an engagement she was anxious to secure in a. forthcoming production. Later a shot was heard, and an attendant found Mdlle Flory lying on the floor wounded in the head with a revolver alongside.

BERLIN, June 17. The North German Lloyd Co. commences on August 11 with the steamer Crefeid a direct three-monthly service for third-class passengers only between Bremen and Australia, outwards via the Cape, and returning via Suez. The company thinks that German emigrants prefer to travel by German boats, and! the fares will be reduced to the lowest possible figure.