NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 October 1928, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Sept. 29. Sir Henry Whitehead, the wool leu mill owner, who died, in February, left £672,086. Charitable bequests exceed £125,000, including £40,000 to Masonic institutions. LONDON, Sept. 30. Tike Pacific Cable Board’s -report for the year ended Inarch 31 shows that traffic receipts decreased by £80,017, entirely due to the beam -wireless service. The -principal loss is in cheaff -traffic, ordinary traffic not being seriously af-~ fec'ted. The “Daily Mail” States that high taxation has compelled Sir Henry Deling, tenth baronet, to sell 'his Kentis-h estate of 3000 acres, including the village of Plucking and the historic manor house of which his -family has held' possession for 900 years. The baronetcy was created in 1626. • SYDNEY, Sept. 30. The Police Department is offering £2OO -reward for the apprehension of the person- who- sho-t mysteriously John Mulholland, school teacher, at Wolumia, otn the south -coast, a fortnight ago. Mulholland was leaving a friend’s -house at night, and' was lighting a cigarette, when a -gunshot hit him in the mouth and. he dropped dead. There, was- am entire absence of -motive, and- the policeare baffled.-

LONDON, Sept. 28. A crack a quarter of an' inch wide, extending -the whole length of a 13-inch gun on 'the .battle-cruiser Tiger was fortunately discovered between shots, otherwise there might have, been a terrible disaster

LONDON, Sept. 29. The “Daily Express’ ’' understands that a big legal light is pending owing to the Treasury’s contention that the late Sir David Yule was domiciled in England and his estate of £20,000,000 is therefore liable to pay £8,000,000 in death duties. It is understood the executors contend that the bulk of the fortune is subject to Indian domicile, under which it would pay less than £1,000,000 in duties. A carefully guarded war secret is revealed by the Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” It is to the effect that General Von Ludendorff, on September 28, 1918, wrought by the knowledge that a military disaster was approaching, had a lit at a hotel. Then came an avalanche of words about the coming debacle, followed by a telephone message to Ivaiscr Wilhelm advising him 1 to appeal for an armistice. Although in ihis speech last night the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin) made no specific reference to the demand of the Conservative conference yesterday for the safeguarding of tie iron and steel industries, it was stated to-day by the chairman of the Conservative Party organisation that. Mr Baldwin’s word in declaring that no industry would be debarred from stating its cas'e and proving it if it could before an appropriate tribunal naturally covered those industries. Following tours to South Africa and Canada, the biggest tour of English public schoolboys is being arranged to sail on January 4. The party will spend seven weeks in New Zealand and go thence to-Australia, returning to England from Sydney. It is expected the party will be composed of 50 boys from all the great schools, including Eton and Harrow. The cost is estimated at £l5O per boy. PARIS, Sept. 29.

The system of tipping is to 'bo the subject of a Bill to :bo- introduced by M. G-oodart in the Senate with the object of compelling managements to distribute to employees the 10 per cent, added to their bills for service. Even on top of this charge l queues of waiters line up to fleece clients, who have now discovered that scarcely any of the 10 per cent, reaches the staffs in many restaurants where casuals are enrolled without wages and.live on what they obtain by tips, some even paying a premium to be taken on.