NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 November 1927, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Oct. 31. The Rovai Scotch express made a new world’s long distance non-stop record from London to Carlisle, a distance of 300 miles, in 386 minutes. SYDNEY. Nov. 1. A combined pn3-session.nl meeting of the Nationalist and Country Parties selected Mr Levy as the ryact’,s candidate for the Speakership- He wL',l there fore be elected when Parliament meets. LISBON. Nov. 1. The police has discovered a Communist bomb factory. Two arrests were made of men employed manufacturing bombs. LONDON, Nov. 1. A collection of original pictures by eminent British artists i$ bc-ing shipped to New Zealand in November under Cue auspices of E. Murray FuPer.iThdy incude Or-pens. Hughes, Stantons, Brangwyne and other well-known exhibitors at the Roya l Academy. VANCOTJYER, Nov. 1. i A Seattle message (States that the ) steamer Margaret Dollar picked up a fishina smack off Capo Flattery, coni raining the emaciated frozen bodies of two Japanese' who are believed to have drifted acioss the Pacific. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 1. It i-s officially announced that Sir Henry Thornton, president of the Canadian National Railways, has been invited to study the finances of the Mexican National Railways and to suggest a plan of reorganisationBERLIN, Oct. 31. The ex-Kaiser has written to his sister protesting against her proposed marriage, stating, “I am unake to 'approve.” The ex-Kaiser’,s elderly ®isxer is to many a younger mam who, until recently, was a pantryman. The princess stated she did not want the world’s pity and was determined to marry.

LONDON. Oct. 31. Tile. • Daily Express" .stsitcw-that- l-W • joint organiser of flic British Legion rcmcmhianre festival on Armistice Day says its ai’lll is to link up the .seiitliirod throughout the Empii© upon the imperishable anniversary, to help to renew war-time comradeship and to remind tlie Empire it has not paid, the debt to those heroes who are istiU unplaced in civil life. LONDON, Oct. 81.

Mr Ernest Makowa, of Melbourne, has purchased a collection of clothing, including the shirt, skull cap, and jabot worn by Charles I oil the scaffold, and presented it to the London Museum’. The collection had been the property f:> the lvnris ot Liudsey for ten generations. It was recently oflcre:l for sale oil condition that it should remain in a national institution. I,OiN DON, Oct. 31. The Tangier correspondent of the ‘•Dai,y News’’ states that in addition to i,lie ransom of £I6,(KX) demanded for ijic kidnapped .Steege party, the tri esineii stipulate that there shall lie no reprisals for seven years. They demand the* release ol ten native prisonous, and a guarantee that the ransom will he riaid in current coinage. LONDON, Oct. 31.

Under the auspices of the Empire .Marketing Hoard. Dr. Hill, superintendent of Kew Gardens, departs on Au\ ember 3 on a six months Empire lour, including Australia and New Zealand. He will visit the various re-, search institutes connected with botany. agi icultuie, and forestry, and will also mal-e a general study of the flora in the various countries, particularly in its re'iation to economic questions.