NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 May 1927, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT MELBOURNE, May 20. Mr. Hogan’s Ministry Was sworn in and held its first Cabinet meeting. DELHI, May 18. A motor launch, conveying an Indian wedding party up the Godavefi River, Madras, was swamped by a cyclone. A total of 50 were drowned and two were rescued. BELGRADE, May 18. Sebian gendarmes and peasants attacked 12 Bulgarian Komitajis at Kumanovo. They fought all day long. Three Komitajis ane one gendarme were killed and several wounded. The remainder of the Komitajis escoped. LONDON, May 19.

The Foreign Office has issued a statement that M. Briand' and Sir Austen Chamberlain had a long, friendly conversation, during which they examined variolas international problems, upon which they are in complete agreement. They again recognise the solidarity of the Entent# and the necessity of strengthening it as the surest foundation on which to build European peace. . LONDON, May 19. That Gretna Green is still the centre of romance was revealed by the arrival of a boy and a girl, medical students from Edinburgh, in a fast motor-car, in order to be married at the old black smith’s shop. They were surprised to find that .the priest had received a telegram from the girl’s uncle in Edinburgh forbidding the marriage. The situation %vas under discussion when the uncle arrived. ADELAIDE, May 20. The annual Assembly of the Congregational Union of Australasia is debating a motion by the New Zealand delegates that the Assembly ask the Government to take steps to prevent the extermination of whales. The motion deplores the wholesale destruction of whales in the Ross eSa, and asks that permits to foreign countries be cancelled and that whale fisheries generally be more rigidly controlled.