NEWS IN BRIEF.

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

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. Bl' CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION -COP* RIG UT SYDNEY, Nov. 5. After a heat wave, the city is experiencing high, velocity cold westerly winds and wintry conditions are prevailing. MELBOURNE, Nov. 5. No farther news has been received of the expedition sent to punish the New Britain murderers. It is now believed that Page, the missing member of the party attacked, 'was also killed. It i« anticipated that order will be .speedily restored in the disaffected area. LONDON, Nov. 4. The new Shaw Savi’,l steamer Mataroa has sailed for New Zealand with 408 assisted immigrants, including 86 youths, on board. MADRID, Nov. 4. It is officially stated that the Spanish columns launched an offensive against the Beni Ider tribe, and the objectives were reached. SHANGHAI, Nov. 5. The Southerners have occupied Kiukiang, Sun-Chuan-Fang’s Kiangsi base. LONDON. Nov. 4. Professor Edgeworth David, lecturing at the Royal Institution, said there was fittte doubt that gold exists on a large scale in the Antarctic, and was obtainable by following the Alaskan experience of thawing out gravel. A new settlement of disputes in British shipyards without any stoppage of work, has been signed by the employers and the employees. The Daily Tetegraph’s Riga, correspondent .states that before the Communist conference closed Moscow, Trotsky. Zinovieff and Kameneff declared that the opposition would support unity, but would not renounce their opinions. Mr Bruce has announced that the Phosphate Commissioners unanimously rescinded the resolution they passed at their last meeting at Vancouver, transferring the executive office from Melbourne to Auckland. He said he was gratified at this step, which he; considered was in the best interests not- merely of Australia., but of the whole enterprise. TOKIO, Nov. 4. The Budeet estimates the revenue for 1927 at one billion six hundred million yen and the expenditure at one biff ion seven hundred _ millions. The estimate is the largest in the history of Japan, being between 35 and 45 million yen above that of the nrevious year. VANCOUVER, Nov. 4. A message from Ishpeming (Michigan) states that the bodies of seven out of the 51 victims of an overhead cave-in in the Swamplands Iron Mine, situated seven miles from Ishpeming, were recovered this evening. Only two men, residing in an adjacent set Feme nr, are left to assist in removing the remains of the victims of the disaster, which ha<s ornhaned 160 children. BERLIN. Nov. 4. . The Court at Hildesheim, Prussia, has concluded the trial arising out of the Leln+e railway disaster in August last. Walter Weber was. sentenced to two years’ ininrisonmcnt. white Schlesinger and William Weber were condemned to death. „ LONDON. Nov. 4. Mr Coates has been having almost daily interviews with members of the Dairv Board and with butter traders He is most hopeful, after protracted negotiations, of satisfactory arrangements being hammered out, ensuring the smooth working of the marketing of the new season production. The Dailv Exm-ess’ Nice corresnoiidenfc renovts that Signor Riccioti Garibaldi, a grandson of the Liberator, lia.s been summoned to police headquarters ito explain liis relations with the antiFascists. It is understood that he is suspected of heiu? in close touch with Colonel Macea. who lias been arrested at Perpignan in connection <> ith the Spanish conspiracy. Another message save that the police took Sigtior Garibaldi to Paris' after searching Ins house and seizing certain papers.

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