NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 March 1928, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

By CABLE—PfiESa ASSOCIATION —COBXBIGHT. WASHINGTON, March 6. The Senate has ratified ike FrancoAmerican arbitration treaty. OTTAWA, March 6. The Hon. J. A. Robb, Minister of Finance, replying to the National Dairy Council’s request for the abrogation of the Australian', trade treaty, said 1 the policy of encouraging _ interEmpire trade was a factor which inspired the Government to conclude the treaty, Australia had given Canada. concessions commensurate with those received from Canada. Mr. Robb explained that recently he received a resolution -from the farmers of Saskatchewan demanding free trade within the Empire within five years. MELBOURNE, Marcli. 7. The trial of the Rev. Ronald Griggs on a; charge of murdering his wife has commenced at Sale, accused' pleading not guilty. The Crown Prosecutor,, in opening the case, saidl the evidence would show that accused’® wife had died of arsenical poisoning and that large quantities of arsenic were kept in places frequented by accused. Medical evidence would show that there were 15.) grains of arsenic in the, body, and three grains' were enouglr to cause death. Further, it would he proved that at least two doses' were administered.