NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 August 1926, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

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BY CABLE— TRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Aug. 25. The number of registered unemployed in Great Britain Ls 1.580,000 more than a year ago. LONDON, Aug. 24. A sum of £103,615 has been raised in Great Britain and overseas for a national memorial to Queen Alexandria. PARIS, Aug. 25. Under iai decree farmers will be compelled in future to register with the revenue (authorities all -.sales of wheat with the .names of any intermediary agents. BRISBANE, Aug. 25. The State Treasurer delivered the Budget, which discloses an estimated revenue of £ IS, >526,406 and an estimated expenditure of £16.700,172, leaving an estimated deficit of £173,166. SOFIA, Aug. 25. Gontinuoiis heavy firing is reported from the Graeco-Bulgarian frontier north east of Salonika. PARIS, Aug. 25. 31. Ghapsal (France) has been unanimously elected president- of the Reparations Commission in .succession to 3L Barthou. RIGA, Aug. 24. Owing to the unfavourable results of the elections the Soviet has postponed —/summoning Congress till 1927, and will 'probably previously hold another .stricter election .since the last offered loopholes allowing the bourgeoisie to participate.

BUDAPEST. Aug. 24. The Appeal Court, has confirmed the judgment of the lower court on all the in the cases of the Hungarian franc forgeries. The sentences on M. Rla.ba, ex-secretary to- Prince Jndisch-graet-z, were reduced from two years to eighteen months and from; eighteen months to a year’s imprisonment respectively. PARIS. Aug. 25. The bodies of the two wives of 31. Guyot, for whom the police are searching in regard to the death of the strangled girl 31arie Louise Reaulanget, are being exhumed. It has been discovered that in both eases 3F. Guyot- rushed out ofdiis bedroom at night time shouting: “Gall the doctor, my wife has .shot herself while- I was asleep!” Each woman was found with a wound in her head and a revolver by her side.