NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 April 1928, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

BY CABim-PItoSS ASSOCIATION—COPY EXGUT MELBOURNE, April 8. After a compulsory conference of tlie parties to the tramway dispute, the men decided to return to work. Ali services are now normal. —Australian Press Association. WARSAW, April 7. A caller at the Soviet Legation said lie wished to wain the Minister, M. Dmitri Gogomolofl, that monarchists from Vi In a intended his assinatiou. The police detained and examined the caller, whom, they found to be a girl in disguise, and carrying weapons. It; is suspected that she intended herself to kill the Minister if opportunity arose. — Australian Press Association. SYDNEY, April 7. A large body of customs police spent yesterday iu a fruitless search of the steamer Houtman, which had just arrived from Singapore, for rumoured contraband cocaine valued at £SOOO. The investigation is proceeding. —Australian Press Association. LONDON, April 7. In reference to an agency report from Sydney that the new owners of the Comm onwealth Line are a. shipping group headed by Lord Kylsant, a Jiigli authority of the White Star Company, stated that neither confirmation nor contradiction had been received from that line or anyone concerned with the group mentioned. He added: "The position is that there were four tenders handed in on February 2i). Wo have heard nothing since and do not, expect to do so until the Australian Parliament meets. —Australian Press Association.

A Blue Book has been issued of the proceedings of the Select Committee on the Estimates. Sir Walter Nicholson, secretary of the Air Ministry, gave evidence that the airship 3*loo wist built by <t private company at a cost of £550,000, while It 101, being built at the Government shed at Caxdington, was expected to cost £400,000, in adiditon to a proposed expenditure of £500,000 on a mooring mast, building a new shed and enlarging the old one. —Australian Press Association.