NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 October 1927, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 17. The four Royal Air Force flying boats which left Plymouth this morning on a cruise to India and Australia, alighted this afternoon at J.onrtin, near Bordeaux. BERLIN, Oct. 19. An airman named Schultze made a new glider altitude record of 2118 feet in four hours, heating the previous best (552 feet). SYDNEY. Oct. 20. The new crew taken from Sydney to Newcastle for the Hurunui refused to man the vessel until the original crew were released from gaol, and they will he brought hack to Sydney. Meanwhile the Hnrunui is still held up. HOBART. Oct. 20. Fire destroyed a block of flats in the city in the early morning. Two children. Harry Lindon, aged two, and Athol Tkin,' aged four, were asleep, and were Ifanned in a bedroom. They could not. he rescued, and were burned to death. ROME. Oct. 19. A meeting at. Milan, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the end of the war. decided to organise two Italian scientifiee expeditions in 1928. on-° will attomnt the ascent of the Himalayas, to which the British and Indian. Governments hav°. consented, while' the other will l>e a polar expedition in charge of General Nobile. LONDON, Oct. 20.

The "Milan correspondent of “The Times’’ reports that Cabinet has approved a s'-heme of comnulsory insurance against tuberculosis, emplovens and emryloyees contributing fortnightly to a national fund which is being constituted.