NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 29 May 1928, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BV ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPY EIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, May 26. Lord Dalziol left £2,274,000 to bis widow. The death duties will amount t > £865,000. The will consists of 140 words.

BERLIN, May 26. The Lufthansa Frankfurt riV liner crashed at ffndevormwald and caught lire. The pilot and two passengers were killed, and another passenger was grievously injured. OTTAWA, May 26.

Questioned in Parliament on Saturday regarding the report Unit the Pacific cable had been sold to tho Eastern Telegraph Company and that iCanada had acquiesced, the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. W. L. MacKenzio Ring, stated lie understood no conclusion had been reached, but promised information immediately it was available.

OTTAWA, May 26

Under the direction of the National Museum of Canada, Cornelius Osgood, 23 yeans of age, of Chicago, will explore the Arctic regions for a year and a half alone. His work will be antkropology and he will take a phonograph to record Eskimo and Indian songs, LONDON, May 26. The British Association’s, expedition to investigate the Barrier Beef which has sailed by tho Ormonde, includes Mrs Yonge. The medical officer, Dr. Yonge, who is in charge, says the trip will cost £10,0005 They are taking a wireless set and five tons of apparatus. Tlie party will live in huts in the low islands, sometimes visiting tho mainland.

LONDON, May 25,

Spencer and Sons, balloon-makers of Highbury, are completing a small dirigible wherein an Australian named Herbert Campbell hopes to make a pioneer voyage to Australia at midsummer. Mr Campbell declines to give any details of his proposed flight. AMSTERDAM, May 26.

, After a lengthy discussion the Interr national Football Federation, at which , 2G nations were represented, unanimously granted the executive a free hand , to negotiate for the return of the English, .Scottish and Irish Football Asso- , ciations which withdrew on account of payment for broken time. , v 'MALTA, May 25. A feature of the naval exercises was the shelling of the old battleship Centurion, which was wirelessly controlled. It has for several days been attacked by shells of all weights and calibres, but without a man on board she dodges alters her speed and course, and puts up" smoke screens. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) 'RUGBY, May 25. The movement by the National Playing Fields’ Association for providing outdoor recreation facilities in voluntary gifts of £330,000 and 400 acre's of land, while the Ministry of Health has sanctioned loans by local authorities amounting to £300,000 far the acquisition of a further 'l3o(f acres to be used as playing fields. OTTAWA, May 26. A Montreal message states that two castles in England, a 66,000,000 dollar estate, and family jewels, of untold value are claimed by 400 residents of New Brunswick as heirs of Sir Francis Drake, the famous admiral and sea rover. The Rev. P. J. Quigg and the Rev. A. E. Stairs sailed to-day for England to establish their claims. BRUSSELS, May 26. The body of a youth, believed to lie English,was found on the heacli at Breedene, near Zeebrugge, with several wounds Foul play was suspected. A later message states that the body has been identified as that of Richard Ashworth, from Cheshire. It is now believed to be a case of suicide. OTTAWA, May 26. . A message from Winnipeg states that producers of nine countries, including Australia and New Zealand, have signified their intention of attending a worljl wheat pool at Regina on Juno 6 to consider co-operation. “'Under the Southern Gross” is the title of an address to bo given by Mr. Charles Judd, of the Victorian wheat pool.