NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 June 1927, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

rfY CAHI.B CRESS ASSOCIATION- COTYRKUti. LONDON. June 21. Captain Horsey, of tile imperial Airways. lias created records for big passenger aeroplanes, living a. machine weighing six tons from London to Cologne- in 1(>() lninnteis. averaging 130 miles hourly. The "Daiiy Telegraph’s” aviation expert points out that Auieriean.s and French each have a long list of failures, bii-t- the success of Lindbergh and Chamberlain are impressive. There was no failure ill their ease as the engines and installations were perfect. NEW YORK, June: 22. Two navy airmen were drowned when a .seaplane- sank three mites off shore. The third airman was rescued. Four women were fatally burned in the home of William Shearer. a wealthy trader, of Boston, when the residence was destroyed hv tire. The governess was rescued clinging to a balcony. Twenty-nine deaths of adult Indians in the village of Anvik. in Western. Ala-ska. were reported in a relayed radio appeal for medion, 1 ! assistance. Food supplies were received ,by the Episcopal Church headquarters . In New Yo-rk to-day, for the Anvik Mission.

LIMA (Peru), June 22. .Six were killed and 13 injured today in an accident on the C’ro.yahuuciivo railroad. PARIS. June 22. Last week’s feeler thrown out b.v M. Briand in favour of a Franco-American, pact outlawing war. appears to have reached official channels. It is understood- that the text of-the plan is being cabled to- New York by the United States Embassy. In connection with a -report of a wrecked aeroplane, believed to be St. Domain's, found at the mouth; of the Amazon, the builders of the: machine state that, except for one wrong figure, the cabled description of the tyres, correspond with those on the missing machine. HOME. June 22. The "Giornale d’ltalia” claims information from Belgrade and Tirana which indicates that both Jugo-Slavi.a and Albania lra-ve accepted the Big Four’s formula for the settlement of the dispute hv the former withdrawing its; Note ami the latter liberating the imprisoned in terpreter. LONDON, June 22.

The general consul of the Trade Union Congress and the Parliamentary Labour Party at a meeting •' _decided to offer uncompromising hostility to the proposals to reform the House of Lords on the grounds that “they deprive the House of Commons of the (ontrol of finance ami taxation, and perpetuate the House of Lords as a Tory instrument.” One hundred and sixty were present at. the annual Rhodes dinner at Oxford. Jibe number included ten former Australian and three former New Zealand echo-la-tvs. The chairman (Lord Lovat) gave details concerning the new Rhodes Tiavellimr Scholarship of £I2OO annually for graduates with five years’ professional experience. Mir Reg _ Sc-hoP. replying on behalf of the Domiimion -students. discussed the question of the age limit for scholars. Whereas the American delegate wanted Rhodes scholars sent when young. Mr Sohol-i suggested that if scholars were chosen when 21 or 22 thev would he able to profit from Hie experience.