NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 July 1928, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

United Press Associiitimi -Tjy Electric Telegraph copyright.) \ . (Australian Press Association.)

SYDNEY, July 25. Falling coal at the Pelawmain Colliery, West Maitland, to-day killed two men, George Collett and James Gilnnour. Rescuers recovered the bodies half an hour after the fall, but they had evidently been killed instantly. WELTEVREDEN, July 25. The sugar producers’ pool lias decided to /stock the crop jjpi- 1928 on the estates. The pool refused to accept £l7 10s .per ton for superior quality and is now much criticised for not selling earlier, when a higher price prevailed. Some Chinese -sugar factories have joined the union of employers of the sugar .industry. A. Dutch company has re-bought the Japanese sugar factory at East Java. OTTAWA, July 25. A Quebec message states that Arsene and Auguste Nolna, two Russians, father and son. were arrested following the discovery in a suburban house of dynamite, rifles, ammunition and radio apparatus capable of communicating with European' capitals. Wireless stations in Canada, and the United Stales lmd reported disturbances.