NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 August 1928, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12. “This will .bo the end. of Olympic boxing, ’ ’ declared General Kentish, referring to the vagaries of referees during The contests that have just finished. BERLIN, Aug. 13. The Soviet Government is eudeavouring to float a loan of £3,000,000 for the railways. It is reported that negotiations are .proceeding in London, New York, Berlin and Sydney. OTTAWA, Aug. 12. A message from Southraarch (Ontario) states that six members of the Australian Biisiey team are there to compete in the annual competition of the Canadian Rifle Association, which opened on Monday. LONDON, Aug. 13. The prospectus has- been' issued of Totalisntors, Limited, to purchase, the .Tillius t o tal i sn't or rights in Great Britain and Ireland. The capital is 250,000, preferred shares of 10s each. Consideration due to the Australian company is payable, £IOO,OOO cash, plus a royalty at the rate of k per cent, of the money passing through the machine. The Financial Times expresses the opinion that the venture is necessarily speculative, even if the control board adopts it. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 12.

Sitting in front of a- blackboard inthe President’s palace, the President. Kernel Pasha, members of the Cabinet, adu their suites received their first. “A. B. C.” lesson, when the Ministry of Education’s experts expounded the new Latinised alphabet.. The Ministry has published a. Latinised dictionary. A censorship ...ureau is being inaugurated and it is proposed to compel newspapers and others to conform to the new spelling. Only 23 ■letters are used, W and X being omitted. OTTAWA, Aug. 12.

News from Montreal states that during the voyage* of the cruiser Australia, from Portsmouth a petty officer was washed overboard during a storm. The sea. .was too rough to launch a lifeboat, so the cruiser circled around .the sailor, lowered a. Jacob’s ladder, and then steered alongside the swimming man, who caught a lower rung, assisted by another officer and n' line and was .then rescued. The cruiser was welcomed here on Saturday by the Mayor, Mr Hondo, and other prominent citizens.