NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 24 May 1927, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 23. Warmers sold at auction the only known copy of a Samoan 1914 halfpenny stamp for the sum of £9O. LONDON, May 21.

An aeroplane got a line aboard the Indian Harbour and the crew were safely landed. The Hauraki proceeded on her way. „ SYDNEY, May 23. Smith, was was arrested here, has been further remanded till May 26 in connection with the burglary of jewellery at Dannevirke. LONDON, May 23. Scotland Yard admits that it is baffled by the trunk crime, after examining 120 persons and taking 300 statements. SYDNEY, May 23. The Riverview Observatory to-day recorded a severe seismic disturbance, either in Burma or Assam. LONDON, May 23. The “Daily Mail’s” Athens correspondent states that a hairdresser named Constantine Carayannides, armed with scissors and assisted by numerous nuns, attacked the orthodox Greek Primate on the church steps and unsuccessfully endeavoured to cut off his flowing beard. The archbishop beat off his assailants, despite his wounded hands and face. It is understood that the attack is due to recent alterations in the Greek calendar, of which the Primate approved. GENEVA, May 22.

It is learned from- an authoritative source that the French workers ’ resolution aiming at the establishment of a permanent economic- bureau is unlikely to be pressed, thus confirming the previous message that, what may happen is that the Council of the League will be asked to place on the agenda for the next assembly a suggestion that the latter body should instruct the economic finance committee of the League to take up a study of resolutions which arc the outcome of this conference. It is impossible to forecast the result of the new move, but there is likely to be much opposition.