NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(Uuited Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn Copyright) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Aug. 9. An order-in-oouneii tor compulsory marking oi" honey comes into force in January and for apples in November. OSLO, Aug. 8. Ttlio Admiralty auiiwiiices that the search for Amundisieiv will be continued until the end of August., - It JO' DEI JANIKHO. Aug. 8. _ Maj or Delpi-ote, the U.mne-Birazi I flier, nmy .lose both tegs as tii© result of a crash in which, he and Captain Fcrra.rin.i were injured. NEW YORK, Aug. 8. At Chicago fii year ago Oonstance Argyll Graceful, a' trapeze performer, reached for a rope and grasped a haiidfuil of air. When picked up forty feet below surgeons found that she had broken hotli wrists, her collarbone, jaw and one leg, besides which both naiJdes were diistoeatted and she had received internal injuries. “I haven’t a soar to

show what happened,” declared Constance oar resuming work to-day. The engagement of Gene Tunney to Josephine Lauder, of Greenwich, Connecticut, has been announced by her mother. Mrs George liaudeb, junr. LONDON, Aug. 9. Xn article in a trade journal shows Empire goods imported by the United Kingdom in the first six months of this year" were over 2 per cent, above tlie first six months' of 1927, and exports of British products to tire Empire were lower by 1.5 par cent. The relative decline in Britain’s exports to pkrts of the Empire was more than accounted for by the reduction in Australia’s percentage, British exports fa]Uing from 9 51 per eent in 1927 to 7.50 in 1928. LONDON, Aug. 9. Thirty public scholars under the leadership of . Mr Wiliams, headmaster of Winchester, are travelling third-claiss under migrant, conditions . They are due in January to tour New Zealand. It is expected that some will settle down theie. LONDON, Aug. 9. Lord Oushendun’-s mansion on the

Antrim coast 'lias been destroyed byfire. .It was recalled that Sinn Fenners destroyed his earlier home. Glcnmo're House. ' LONDON, Aug. 9. The Broken Hill Newcaistle, Australia, has placed £1,000,000 contract with the Copper .Coimpany, for the construction of a, coke ovens by-products plant, which is one of the largest contracts in Australian industrial -history: ■ . LONDON. Aug. 9. The United States has ordered 20 Avid-Avian light aeroplanes, similar to those used by Bert . Hiiikler in lus A l iglo-Au.s 1 rail all flight.