NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 June 1928, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC

TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) NEWCASTLE, June 3. The steamer Ech-unga has arrived from Wellington. Eight stowaways who wore discovered shortly after leaving Wellington were each lined £7 10s in tlio Police Court yesterday. ROME, June 2. Starting on May 31, the 'aviators Ferrarin and Delproto remained in the air 5S hours 43 minutes, thus -beating the world’s previous endurance record of 53 hours 35 minutes. CALCUTTA, June- 2. While a steamer was discharging Soviet kerosene into the Standard Oil Company’s tanks at Sewn, near Bombay, a tank containing 600,000 gallons burst into fiames and was destroyed. After an all-night fight the fire brigades saved the adjoining -tanks containing millions of gallons. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 2. King Amanullah, before his departure for Kabul, said he was convinced the example of Turkey was the only one to be followed. Henceforth he would have one eye for Turkey 'and one for Afghanistan.' He added that (his health was good, liis honour had -been restored, and his belt, which was slack on his arrival,, was now tight again. WASHINGTON, June 2. The new home of the British Embassy here will be dedicated by the British Ambassador, Sir Esmo Howard, tosmortow, King’s Birthday. The exercises will consist of laying the corner stone of the British Embassy. The Canadian and Irish Free State Legation staffs and officials of the United States and other Governments will attend. MADRID, June 1. A message from Inglesias, the Spanish airman who started for India, states that he -descended in the village of Massir Aya in Iraq, where there was not a single European. The descent was due to valve trouble. He expected to dismantle the machine.