NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 April 1928, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, April 17.

The Daily Express states that Toone, secretary of the Yorkshire County Cricket. Club, has accepted the managership of the M.G.C. team for the Australian tOUl ‘ ROME, April 17.

The Fascist newspaper Briallante says a second arrest has been made in Como, but the identity of the prisoner lias not yet been established. All responsible lor the Milan outrage are now in custody. . Fifty hydroplanes, liali" under the command of Marquis dc Pincdo and-hail, under Signor Balbo, Minister of Air, will shortly undertake a flight over the Mediterranean, visiting France, Spain, ■Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Egypt, Tutkev Greece and Malta. ' ’ NEW YORK. April 17. The Socialist Convention nominated Mr. Norman Thomas, of New York, as President, and James Maurer qi Reading (Pennsylvania) for Vice-President ol the United States. BERLIN, April 16.

Following' an attempt at suicide owing to the deed preying on his mind,. a young man has confessed that he poisoned liis mother in order, to end her sufferings from an incurable disease. He will be tried for murder but has been granted his liberty in the meantime. ROME, April 16.

Importance is attached to Signor Mussolini’s two conferences the Polish Foreign Minis ter (M. A. ski), at which it is reported a basis of an agreement was outlined under which Italy will support Poland in her dealings with Soviet Russia. SAN FR ANCISCO, April 17. The Golden Fleece, sailing on April 26, will be the first steamer in the new service of the Oceanic and Oriental lino to leave here for Australian and New Zealand ports. The vessel is booked to capacity with general cargo. NEW YORK, April 17. News from Chicago states that four armed and masked bandits entered a observation car on the north-western railroad overland limited, just outside the Chicago terminal, and robbed the passengers of money and. jewellery to the extent, it is now believed, of 15,000 dollars. The bandits fled in the darkness. PARIS, April 16. The magistrate in'committing Seberac, the postal official who 1 confessed to stealing a necklace of pearls valued at .050.000, to prison pending' his trial, said the necklace was not worth fifteen sous to any thief because the pearls were known to all dealers.' The police allege that Seberac led a double life. He devoted his spare time to Stock Exchange speculations and. bought presents for his women friends for whom he also hired motor cars and incurred heavv debts. (UNITED SERVICE.) NICE, April 17. s 'Phe annual profit of the Monte Carlo casino is ,1)1,252,000 gross, £728,000 nett. The dividend paid was 1-15 per cent, and £4 .shares arc now worth £92. LONDON, April 17. The Berlin correspondent, of the “Daily Mail’’ states the Bolsheviks have ordered Roman Catholic clergy to sign an impossible declaration pledging them to accept the Soviet’s anti-religi-ous legislation including the prohibition of tlte teaching of religion to children under sixteen, refusing obedience to the bishops and abstaining from relations with the Pope except through Soviet priests. If they fail' to sign the declaration they will be transported tc? the dreaded So love tz Island i.q the White Sea. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY. April 16. According to the latest reports the combined Wahabi force which was menacing the Iraq frontier has now returned to the summer grazing grounds oi its component tribes. An arrangement for a conference between Jbn Sand, the Wahabi king, and Sir Gilbert Clayton lias cased the situation all round, anil information has reached Basra that Ibn Sand lias summoned all the important tribal chiefs of Nejd to meet him at Buraida