NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 June 1928, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph t Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, June 12. Lobbyists agree that it is practically certain 'that aie lit. Hon. Captain E. A. • Fitzroy, Conservative naembor for Davontry. will be the only nomine© for the Speakership of the House of Commons. SUVA, June 12. After a. week's stay in Suva, ,<m Monday afternoon George Robert Hayward, an. employee' of Mourns Hedsibrom, Ltd,, Levnukai, was found 1 unconscious with a. gunshot wound in his head on the beach, near Levuka. There was a bullet in his brain. Hayward had domestic" tiouhlies, LONDON, June 11. The Soviet has decided tot reinstate Zinovieff, Kameneff, Piatakoff and a few others immediately their siiX months’ probation expires l at the end. of June, states the Riga; correspondent of “The Times.” Zinovieff and Kamenuff must reside at Kaluga, but can spend much time ,in Moscow. Tmtisky, who is in good health. remains at Vyeiipyi. Naum off . Safaroff, ALu’din an d Vu coil itch will be reinstated dnily when they have fully recanted. Speaking in the Hoiu„~e of ConinDoras, Mr Locker Lampoon told Mr Rennie Smith that none of the Dominions raised objection to article 10 orf Sir Austen Chaniberlain’.s reply to Mr Kellogg. In the House of Ceinmans, tlie Rb. llon. L. O. M. S. Amery toild Sir Robert Thomas that as their wages ill the Dominions were sufficient to enable them to sav.3 .tor the return journey, it wan unnecessary to consider guaranteeing home passage to Women migrants as a. means of- overcoming their diffidence and hesitanoe to migrate. Dominion farmers, as the guests of the Post o<f London Authority, inspected the daoksi, cold storage and tobacco warehouses, and the cattle quarantine. In a speech at the 'luncheon, the vicechairman said he hoped the re,suit of (.heir ihisipeetioii would' convince the representatives of the Dominions that London was the most efficient port in Britain for handling .their produce. (Australian Press Association—United Service.) ;ypeaking in the (House of Commons, replying to Mr iC. G. Ammon, the lit. Hon. S. M. Baldwin said -that the Press statement that the -Wireless 'Conference had presented its report was entirely; erroneous WASHINGTON, June 12. Captain Emilio Gapranza, the Mexican goodwill aviator, arrived from Mexico City on Tuesday, laifter fog had forced a .landing at Moor.sville, North Caroline. A i/2-quest to dispatch. 600 additional marines to Nicaragua for supervision •of the elections was. received by the Naval Department from General McCoy, who is in eharige of the .balloting. LONDON. June 12. In th© House of Commons, the preiddruvt of the Board of Trade, Sir P. Ounliffe Lister, stated that whereas Britain's 1 .share of the world’s export- tirade in 1913 was fifteen pm- cent, by 1927 it was only eleven per cent. During th© same period Europe’s .sihar© ol’ the world’s export trade dropped from 62 to. ,52 per cent. . British exports in 1913. were 37 par cent, to the Empire., 34 to Europe and 29 to the rest of th© world. ’ n 1927 the exports to the Empire wore 421 per cent, and to Europe 291. wliiilC' to the rest of the world they were 28 per cent. LONDON. June 12.

The Film Act lias been a .signal success. Of 932 films registered to date 104 were British, more than double the number required for the quota of the first year.