NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 September 1927, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

BY CABLE —PBESH ASSOCIATION—OOPYBIOH1 BRISBANE, Aug. 31. In a demented state, a woman at Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, is believed to have attacked her 'husband and two children, cutting their throats with a razor while they were asleep in_ the early morning. She then cut her own throat. The girl, aged eight months, died, and the hoy was seriously injured, but the husband and wife; were only slightly hurt.

SYDNEY, Aug. 31. Air ATiinaliaii, formerly a prominent Labour member, states that he has left the party, which is now controlled by Communists, and will oppose Mr Lang for the latter's seat, Auburn, at the forthcoming elections.

LONDON, Aug. 31. The "Times” Leningrad correspondent says that Alitiagin, who was included in the alleged British spies, confesesd to espionage and committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor window of flic prison.

MADRID, Aug. 31. The sum of £2 for each sitting will be the remuneration of 360 members of the new National Assembly, which meets in October to frame the constitution and prepare the Budget. LONDON, Sept. 1. Livingstone’s ‘ ‘ straight banana ’ ’ claim was disqualified. The music publishers informed his solicitors that the reward was subject to 19 conditions, the first of which was that all the bananas must enter in their own writing and sign their full names and pedigrees. BELGRADE, Aug. 31.

Aiis-taken for a witch while she was painting the Bosnian Alountains, an Englishwoman, Aliss Chester, was the victim of superstitious women villagers and was stoned. She was taken to hospital. The authorities propose punishing the whole of flic village. LONDON, Sept. 1.

An effort is being made to recover the dominance of British heavy steel. Alakers offer a rebate of 7s 6d a ton materials to consumers not purchasing materials to consumers notp urchasing from the Continent. Signatories point out that the present imports mean idle colliers, coke ovens, furnaces and iron and steel works, while certainly over 100,000 workers idle are losing their skill.