NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 December 1926, Page 12

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. by cable— press association— copyright. BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 11. The first estimate of this season’s wheat crop, issued by the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture, is two hundred and fifteen billion bushels, which is less £han was expected from the increased acreage. _ NEW YORK, Dec. 11. The Commission, headed by Sir William Mackenzie, which has investi-o-ated industrial conditions in all sections of Canada and the United States for the British Government, sailed for England to-day. TO'KIO, Dec. 10. The Emperor of Japan has developed pneumonia. Ministers, the household chamberlains, the Premier and the Emperor’s mother have arrived at the palace. The Regent Princess is expected to-morrow. The doctors are all assembled. BERLIN, Dec. 11. With the object of proving that actresses are superfluous, the managers of a prominent theatre circuit have decided to bami them. They state that from the beginning of the new year their places will be .taken by a malecompany. LONDON, Dec. 10. Mr William Harrison, who was the purchaser of the journals The Sketch. The Tatler, The Illustrated London News and other weeklies has bought the Morning Post building in which to house his newspaper interests. OTTAWA, Dee. 10. The estimates for the fiscal year 1927 were tabled in the House to-day. They totalled 191.000,000 dollars, exactly the same as appeared on the estimates submitted to, and not passed by, the lastParliament. GENEVA, Dec. 10. _ The League Council postponed till next session the consideration of the Permanent Mandates Commission’s report. It also requested the commission to consider the questionnaire to which the mandatories objected, and adjourned until March consideration of the petitions to which the mandatories also objected. LONDON, Dec. 10. Mr Havelock Wilson’s son Joseph, in a letter to the Daily Mail, says that 18 months ago he was losing weight rapidlv and sputum tests revealed that he was suffering from tuberculosis. H? underwent Spahlinger "s treatment for a year at Geneva, and the result Av r as that he regained his weight, sputum tests are now negative, and his health is normal. LONDON. Dec. 11. Mrs Elliott Lynn, urging women to take up flying, said that in the last three months there had been 270,000 injuries in street accidents in England, while not a single person had been injured in an aeroplane, carrying out- ordinary duties, in a year. She wondered why people had courage to drive a car where scores of dangers were lurking at every corner. It was easier to flv than to ride a push bicycle.