NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 March 1928, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

bx UAfiuL rX*LtOCt XoDulylAiiUo LW 1 1-lU ll j I LuMX/A. LdN xj , aXarcii 8. The Ciyde Navigation a rust Has appointed a committee to oonsiuer means ot obtaining increaseu. uirect traue with .Australia and .vevv Zealand, me trust will piooadiy be sending an emissary tneio to explain Lae monte »>i me pent oi uiaagovv. AluLi >U URN it, M a fell 8. The hearing oi tlie eHueiae in Uie Griggs muraer trial nas concluded. 'The accused, when cross-examined, auinutca mat strained domestic relations existed, and said ms wiie Had asKeu him to allow her to get a divorce, tie denied that he had any Hand or part ill bringing aoout her deatn. LUtNIX/N, Alarch 8. The first mail plane mu-s arrived at Cfalpe Verde Islands. it transpires that shortage oi petnt causeu il to descend, giving rise to report it was missing. The second hydroplane oi the service is en route. nEvv' YORK, .March 7. The American newspapers and Publishers - Association s Advertising Bureau states that nationl advertisers expended 225,1LW,(X)0 dollars in newspaper advertising in 1927. The groups cluse.iiicution is headed by the Automobile industry, with o* companies spending in tlie aggregate i>o,ooo,Odv» dollars. AKW YORK, Alarch 7. The General Motors corporation's annual report reveals that the company now possesses over a billion dollars worth ol assets. This is the tirst instance in which an automobile manufacturing company has reported *,ucli assets, although Henry lord has long been worth over a billion in the opinion ot linanciers. PARTS, March 8. Two of the chief German ex-service-men’s organisations, representing four million ex-servicemen, have agreed to co-operate with the British Legion and with' ex-servicemen’s organisations in Trance, . .Poland, Italy, Koumania, Jugo-Slavia, Belgium, Portugal, and Czedho-Slovajtia, .in arranging a world congress, to discuss means o, ensuring worid peace. LONDON, March 8. A committee of the oradiord Chamber ot C'ommerce( reporting on the pack or New Zealand hemp invented by Baird was unanimously agreed that the lining contained vegetable fibre and would ve the same deleterious effect a® jute. 'The lining was found in the wool not only particles of jute but also particles of liuLONDON, March 7. The Middlesborougli by-election, rendering necessary by the death of Mar. Thomson Trevelyan (Loberal) resulted: Thompson Kingsley Griffith (Liberal) A- 1711 is (Labour) ;••• 10.628 Stanley Sadler (Conservative) 8213 MOSCOW. March 8. The Soviet’s Central Eveoutive lias ratified the Genera protoco 1 against the use of poison gas in warfare, with a reservation to be free to retaliate against those violating it.