NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 October 1926, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT BRISBANE, Oct. 5. Captain Williams resumed his Pacific flight this morning. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3. William Johnston, a former national tenuis champion, has refused the offer of Mr. Pvle to turn professional. NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Coastguard officials state that after unloading a cargo of 2000 cases of liquor the British steam trawler Penlinden sailed from Halifax on August 18 for an unnamed destination, and was seized at Bay way, New Jersey, on Saturday night, when the crew fled. LONDON, Oct. 4.

Japan has ordered a fleet of Blackbur n-Nhpier torpedo planes, each carrying a torpedo weighing a ton, and capable of being carried on the deck of a battleship. LONDON, Oct. 4.

The Oronsay and Ormonde are among the fifteen vessels affected by the strike at Tilbury. The Tilbury dockers returned to work on Tuesday. BRISBANE, 'Oct. 5. The drought losses in the central and north-western districts are estimated at 6,000,000 sheep. Although the dry spell has now broken, further rains are necessary before normal conditions can be restored. IvOjNDON, Oct. 4James Forster Green, aged 82, was found dead in his house at Gateshead, where he had lived as a recluse for 20 years. Though believed to be poor, the police found securiities in the house worth £IO,OOO. It is believed that his relatives live in New Zealand. PARIS, Oct. 4. Dr. Stresemann’s recent allusions to the war guilt of Germany have incensed the French press, which perceives therein an attempt to set M. Briand (Foreign Minister) against the Premier (M. Poincare). Le Journal Des Debats demands a public discussion before the signing of an agreement with Germany. LONDON, Oct. 4. The Archbishop of Canterbury, defining his attitude towards birth control, concerning which misleading reports have been published, declares that it is true that he declined to denounce as necessarily sinful all and every method of birth control. Circumstances might arise in which a blunt denunciation would be unfair and misleading. He did. however, denounce as lamentable and mischievous the advice of the group headed by Dr. Marie R topes.