NEWS IN BRIEF

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 September 1928, Page 9

NEWS IN BRIEF

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; (Australian Press Association.; NEfWI YOfRK, Sept. 18, Led; by a, woman, three (bandits, all armed, (held up 12 persons ab a card; game, collected £4OO, and escaped. One of the victims was a policeman off duty, who was unarmed. SYDNEY, Sept. 20. The New South Wales farmers’ pie-. biseita decided against a wheat pool or a marketing board projected, under the marketing clause of the Primary Production Alet. MELBOURNE, Sept. 18. In a wrestling bout between Walter Miller and Bob Erase, at Rlusheutters Bay, Kruse seized his opponent as he was re-entering the ring after being forced) through/ the ropes) ancl threw him heavily. Kruse was disqualified. Miller was found to be suffering from a broken ,shoulder and was sent ffo the hospital.

SYDNEY, Sept. 19. A censure motion .was launched in the House of /Representatives this afternoon by M'i* Lang, who charges the Premier, Mr T. R. Bavin, with degrading and judicially sullying the records of the courts. Air Lang declares the professions of cleansing public life from bribery and corruption are only gestures. VANCOUVER, Sept. 17. A pious inhabitant of Wellfleet, one of the oldest Alas sac-bus setts coast towns, is indignant over the use by bootleggers’ agents of the church tower, in order to signal to rum-run-ners by means of electric lights to the shore nearlby, where they have landed cargoes. The town clock is in the church tower, and the agents obtained 1 the key of the basement, where the lights were controlled, .and flashed code messages. {British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 18* The report of the Third Committee, providing for financial assistance' to states which are the vicfciimis. of aggression, was unanimously adopted by the League Assembly to-day. The - finance committee of the League was instructed to draft a convention, including rules for its application and the fixing of a maximum annual liability for each guarantor 4bate and the amount up to which it might have to* guarantee a loan.