NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 November 1926, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

1 ITEMS OF INTEREST. , BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT : .. m . HOME, Nov. 3. ■ / rieste an infernal machine was exploded in the window of the militia barracks at San Pietro. One person was killed and five wounded. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Oueen Marie dedicated the Roumanlan room at the Mary Hill International Museum of line Arts, for which purir? Sei sle said, .she came to America. Ihe museum has been built by JMr Samuel Hill, of Seattle, a capitalist, who is directing the entertainment of the Koyaf party on its Pacific and Northwest tour. ROME, Nov. 3. 1 here is no truth jn the Midis report from Genoa that Zamboni was an innocent victim of the lynching following the attempt on Mussolinns life. ZambonPs brother, Vico, has identified the revolver used as his own, and says his brother stole it from his room. LONDON, Nov. 4. The Earl of Birkenhead, speaking at a dinner at the Engineering Club, made a scathing attack upon Mr A. J. Cook, the secretary of the Miners’ Federation, whom he described as “the Moscow pantomime artist,” a hysterical slave, a- serf of a foreign power, and a man who has deservedly been put in gaol on more than one occasion.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 3. The Commercial Travellers’ Association has rejected a motion in favour’ of rescinding a resolution adopted in 1918, providing that no person of enemy origin should be allowed to become a member of the association for 25 years after the late war.—Sydney Sun Cable. LONDON, Nov. 4. The Maharajah of Burdwan, speaking at the luncheon of the British Indian Union, said he hoped the Indian example would some day lead to the British Sovereign becoming Emperor of all the Dominions. The Treasury nas announced its willingness to guarantee the principal and interest of £IIO,OOO under the Trade Facilities Act to the Australian Pulp Paper Company for twelve years for the purchase of materials and machinery in Britain for mills to be established in Melbourne.