NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The well-known unman uert iinnaer lias patented a new type ot landing carriage, which, according to tiie aviation conets ponnent ox tne “uaily telegraph, '' is liiceiy to ue a uoon to private owners oi lignt aeroplanes. Tiio i\6\v xear Honours- include u baronetcy ior air. J antes Cairn, oi Messrs. Turnbull, Martin and Company, shipowners. the King's Tonce aieoiai is given to .police Constable Dainty, Wtio was shot and very severely wounded by a motorist wJioin lie was endeavouring to arrest. The assailant was sentenced to penal servitude ior life. _ , At Luxor, Mr. Howard Carter opened the ante-chamber of Tutankhamen's lomb. He discovered a beautiful alabaster cauopic jar, containing the Kind’s viscera, also valuable tomb furniture. The chamber will be opened to visitors on January 15. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.

An explosion in the turbine generator supplying light and power to the town of fc>t. Raul wrecked a plant valued at £IOO,OOO, killed two electricians, and injured 15. All light and power was cut olf for several hours. Sarazen, with a score of 292, won the Miami beach open golf purse of JoOO dollars. Tar roll and Kirkwood tied lot second place with 295. PARIS, Jan. 3.

Marshal Foch, according to an interview with the “Petit Journal, ’ is able to sleep soundly at will. He was not tired throughout the war, because even if awakened by a subordinate he was able to give instructions and go to sleep .again immediately. He told an interviewer that a big offensive had been planned for November 14 if the armistice had not intervened. LONDON, Jan. 3. The lost parish church of Walton-on-the-Naze, which was engulfed a centurv ago with the village and is now three miles out at sea, dramatically reappeared during an exceptionally low tide following on a heavy storm. The belfry is known as the “Ghost Church,” and great crowds gathered on the -seafront to watch the ruin silhouetted against the sky until the tide returned and again engulfed the buildThe Marconi International Marine Communication Co. and the Radio Communication Co. have agreed to amalgamate their operating _ and inspection services under the title of the British Wireless Marine Service, which henceforth will deal with all matters relating to wireless operating on Ward ships. It iS' claimed that the fusion will give British shipowners the services of the most efficient and, _ most complete wireless organisation! in the world.

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, Jan. 2. The laws- aWlishing slavery in the Sierra Leone Protectorate become effective to-day. Two hundred! and fifteen thousand slaves are due to be set free on January 2.

Negotiations' are complete for the talcing over by the British Association, in trust as a national memorial, of the old home in Kent of the great scientist Charles Darwin, which has been bought and endow’ed for £150,000 by a London surgeon, Mr. Buckston Browne. The house is to be preserved not as a show place, but to serve some useful purpose not yet decided.