NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 January 1927, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION - COl’Y RIG H i LONDON, Jan. 13. The official tests of the Australian beam wireless will begin at 10 o’clock this morning, London time. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 13. Germany and Turkey have signed a commercial agreement, including a “most favoured nation” treatment, affecting German chemicals and toys and Turkish carpets and fruits. BERLIN, Jan. 13. The extent to which Englishmen are wearing German hats is disclosed by figures showing that 1,708,000 hats were exported to England last, year. VANCOUVER, Jan. 13. A message from Tampico \ states that 37 longshoremen are believed to have been killed by an explosion of gasoline on the British steamer Essex Isles. Convinced that Communists, allied to the Russian Soviet, controlled the International Fur Workers’ Union of New York, the American Federation z of Labour meeting at St. Petersburg, Florida, took action to rid the organisation of its Communistic destructive influences. MELBOURNE, Jan. 14. The young woman whose body was found yesterday has been identified as Eileen Clarke, a single woman, aged 25 years, who was a waitress in a city restaurant. Death was due to malpractice, and occurred evidently two davs ago. LONDON, Jan. 13. The Miners’ Federation announces the receipt of £IOO,OOO from Russia and £3OOO from Australia, for the socalled “miners’ victimisation fund.” Other sums are coming from overseas, and it is hoped to raise £20.000. MELBOURNE, Jan. 14. The city is again in the throes of a heat wave. To-day is the sixth day in succession of excessive temperatures. The thermometer was at 107 degrees. A cool change arrived this afternoon. Another death, attributed to the heat, occurred at the Old People's Homo. AMSTERDAM. Jan. 13. The general council of tlie International Federation of Trade Unions again defeated by 12 votes to six the English proposal' that the federation confer with the Soviet Trade Union Council. The council also resolved to assure the Mexican people of th© International Labour movement’s support in resisting foreign aggression and interference. LONDON, Jan. 14. The Lancet, emphasising the willingness of the Ministry of 'Health to arrange for immediate investigation of the test, appeals edit-orinlly to Dr. Henri Spahlinger to submit his remedies to an independent investigation, “-which is the only way to right him with the medical world and to ' relieve him of his difficulties.” ' The White Star Tine has "been re<ristere<t with a capital of £9.000.000. divided into 5,000*000 6.1 per cent preference shares- and 4.000.000 ordinary shares to acquire a. whole share in the capital of the Oceania. Steam Navigation Company.