NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 May 1927, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBI3HT PARIS, May 28. The American colony is raising a million francs for the relatives of Nungesse'r and Coli. \ SYDNEY, May 29. As the result of the meditation of the Industrial Commissioner, the Littigow strike has been settled and the men return to work on Monday. PARIS, May 28. When a military aeroplane caught fire in the air the occupants jumped out. The observer’s parachute opened and he landed safely, but the pilot’s failed to expand and he was killed. SYDNEY, May 20. A compulsory conference of the paities to the coal trimmers’ strike at Newcastle considered proposals for a settlement of the dispute. The terms proposed are not published, but it is anticipated the strike will end of Monday. MANILA, May 28. , The naval authorities have checked a plot by Shanghai Communist and Filipino labourers to blow up a naval ammunition dump at Cavite navy yard near Manila, for the purpose of blocking the shipment of ammunition to American ships in China. v ROME, May 29. Signor De Graspari, an ex-deputy and ex-Leader of the Populist Party, was arrested when attempting to leave the country with a false passport and other documnts. He has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for being in possession of forged papers. ’ SYDNEY, May 29.

Mr. McTiernan, in a statement on behalf of the Australian Labour Party, said Mr. Lang had betrayed the trust reposed in him by the Labour Party by a deed of treachery unparalleled in its history. The new Cabinet had been formed outside the Australian Labour Party by Messrs Lang and Willis personally. It was not a Labour Government, but a Lang-Willis body. LONDON, May 28.

The Admiralty announced that an oil fuel fire occurred in one of the Eenown’s boiler rooms on May 2t> between Fremantle , and Mauritius. The ship was stopped while the fire was extinguished. There were four slight casualties among the engine-room ratings The programme will not be affected. The Admiralty states the cause of the fire is at present unknown.