NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 July 1928, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph

Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) ADELAIDE, July 23. Believed to have been poisoned, Mrs. pu rn/*r, wife ot a fanner at Coochera, Eyre Peninsula, and three children, aued, three, two and one years, were found dead to-day. The father and a farm hand were the only other persons on the property. LONDON, July 23. A British United Press message from Rome states that the Pope" has appointed Monsignor Caccia, Dominions'’ Master in the Papal household, to be lrearer of the chalice at theEucharistic Congress in Sydney. Others in the partv will be Monsignors Respighi, Chief Master of Ceremonies, and Me 11 a di SaneMa, Chamberlain to His Holiness. HAVANA (Cuba). July 22. A proposal for the voluntary legal inoculation of condemned convicts with cancer germs for the study of the disease was approved by the Board of National Sanitation. The convicts, if cured in 12 years will be, freed. The proposal hn.s? vet. to* £co toi Congi’ess. ‘ BERLIN, July 23. A message received from King’s Bay reports a death aboard the Citta di Milano, but the name has been kept secret. It is believed that Mariano, who had a foot amputated, lias suc-c-umlied. LONDON, July 23. The Eastern Cable Company has acquired shares in the direct West India Cable Company, controlling the Halifax. Bermuda, Cuba, West Indian and Panama Companies, operating 8000 miles of cable. They also recently installed wireless stations. MELBOURNE, July 23.

S. Kelly, owner of Hallowe’en, Jockey J. Hook, and R. King have been disqualified for life for using an electric battery on a horse in a race at the Richmond ponv meeting. VIENNA, July 23. The climax of the S'hubert festival arrived when 250,000 people representing German colonies throughout the world marched in a procession to the concert room. It was the most imposing spectacle of German unity since the war. There were a million spectators.

MEXICO CITY, July 22'. The, Minister of Labour, _ Luis Motohos, against whom allegations of creating an nnti-Obregon feeling were made, has resigned. The farmer bloc had demanded his retirement from office. NEW YORK. July 22. Completing a trip round the world in 23 days 14hrs f>2min 27see. Captain Tb D. Collyer and John Means and their mascot dog Tailwind arrived at the Battery on Sunday evening, beating the previous record by five days. They used steamer and aeroplane, having a folding-wing plane for land jumps.