COMMONWEALTH NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 May 1928, Page 7

COMMONWEALTH NEWS.

BE O ADCASTI NG M ERG EIL (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received Mav 17, 10.50 a.m. Sydney, May .1.7. The broadcasting merger is causing concern among listeners-in. It is announced that both A class stations at Sydney, namely 2EC and 2BL have teen acquired by the new company, called the New South Wales Broadcasting Co. Ltd., composed of representatives of large department stoics, theatrical interests and one newspaper. API ’() IN TAI ENT I)-ECI A NE D CANBERRA, May 17. Sir Adrian Knox, Chief Justice of the High Court Bench informed the lit. Hon. S. M. Bruce that he declines the royal cominissionership into the allegations of bribery by Air Lambert, AI.P., as he thinks it inadvisable that a member of the Commonwealth judiciary should undertake investigations o. this nature. LASSEN GEMS FOR. NEW ZEALAND SYDNEY, May 17. Air Bernard Gotlieb sails hv Alakura to-day to take up the duties as United States consul at Wellington. Mr Benno Aloisewitsch, the noted pianist, and Sir Henry Scott, of Fiji, are also ah aid. The latter will make a sojourn in New Zealand for two weeks. WOMAN GIVEN COCAINE AND THEN ROBBED. SYDNEY, May 17. Bernice Bevin. aged 83. was fined £‘_s;> for having cocaine in her possession. The prosecutrix stated that she was stopped by Bevin. who asked her to snitf something and immediately she became irresponsible, was taken to a house at Medfern. robbed, and then turned out. DESPERATE EIGHT FOR. LIFE!. ADELAIDE, May 16. Johann Thiele, a wealthy farmer, has been arrested qn a charge of murdering his wife. When the police visited the house they found evidence of a terrific struggle. The furniture- had been smashed and the walls ere blood-stain-ed in -several rooms, showing how desperately the woman had fought for her I i re. A Press Association message from Adelaide yesterday, stated that Mrs. Eiederick Thiele, aged 35. was found dead, with a. portion of her head blown a wav.

EXPLOSION AND FIT? IC. SYDNEY. May 15. Aiii explosion in the factory of Whiteloi Products. Limited, at Cain per down, resulted in the rapid gutting of the premises, owing to the inflammable celluloid and celluloid paints manufactured therein. The blaze was spectacular, the flames leaping high in the air. The plant and machinery were destroyed and the damage is extensive. DISPUTE! IN MEAT INDUSTRY. BRISBANE, May 17. The meat exporting ooinpankw, in Southern Queensland have decided to cease operations for the present, owing to a, dispute with slaughterers, who i'of'lsg to c-ompi'y with the award cpnditions. About a thousand men will he die. and these will probably he increased to 150!) apart from loss of trucking on tho railways. ACTIVITY TN OIL SHARES. BRISBANE. May 17. There has been considerable activity recently in oil shales. All the country ; n the vicinity of Rerun is pegged; for miles and no fewer than twenty-six übsidiaw coinnanics have been formed to embark in oi,'. •search in Australia.