NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 July 1928, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, July 4. The annual report of the Workers’ Compensation Commission disclosed that during the past year the total compensation paid to injured workers was £421,938. LONDON, July 4. Flying Officer Wallingford, a son of the celebrated rifle shot of New Zealand, won Queen Mary’s prize at Bisley with a score of 174 fired under battle conditions TOKIO, July 3. , Eight thousand Northern troops entered Manchuria through Sangaikuan on Monday, abandoning all China proper in the hands of the Nationalists. CAIRO, July 4. Mahmoud Pasha, the new Prime Minister, says 'it is undesirable to reenter negotiations with Britain at present, but he has not the least intention of renouncing his national aspirations. It is reported from Soudan that the AVafd is paying £4OOO to secure French counsel’s opinion regarding the legality of the dismissal of the Nahas Cabinet. SYDNEY, July 4. The Public Trustee, Mr. Payne, who inquired into the defalcations in the equity office amounting to about £BOOO during the period since 1915, blames [laxity in the office for the occurrences. The officer blamed had left Australia, when the shortage was discovered and had not been seen since. The Public Service Board will consider how far other officials aT© culpable. ■' (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 3. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked in the House of Commons today as to the existence of a pricefixing agreement between the AngloAmerican, Royal Dutch, Shell, and Anglo-Persian oil companies. ll© was informed, he replied, that it was the practice of the companies named to act in agreement when the movement of world prices justified a rise or fall in the price in England. Received 10.10 a.m. to-day. VANCOUVER, July 4. Mr. H. J. Sinclair, of Christchurch High School, New Zealand, as a guest of the Alpine Club, successfully climbed Mount Robson, 10.780 feet, in the Rockies. , SUVA, July 4. J. R, Pratt and G. Parks, New Zealanders, will hold a wood chopping challenge match of £SO aside at Suva on Juy 16 for 12, 14 and 16-inch standing chops-.