NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1929, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■ ’ mt-ed Press Association —I3y Electric Telegraph Copyright.) [Australian Press Association.! CAIRO, Jan. 13. The Egyptian and Palestine Governments have . signed an agreement whereby civil and commercial judgments rendered in one country are executive in tlie other. SYDNEY, Jan. 14.

The wool sales were .resumed to-day, when 11,342 bales were sold. An exceedingly firm market ruled, prices being in sellers’ favour. There was rather more competition on American and Yorkshire account} Crossbreds were particularly firm and keenly competed for. Greasy Merino sold at 374 per lb. NEW. YORK, Jan. 13. Following reports that Mr. Owen D. T. Young and Mr. J. P. Morgan have been virtually selected to join the reparations commission it is indicated in Washington co-day says the New York Times correspondent, that definite announcement to that effect might be made when Mr. Morgan chooses his alternate. Mr. Thomas N. Perkins, a Poston lawyer, will alternate l for Mr. Young. (British Official Wireless.! RUGBY, Jan. 13. The new lifeboat designed for the rescue of distressed cross-Channel aeroplanes and being built for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, will be the first to be fitted with wireless telephony. She will be 64 feet long, with two -cabins to hold about 50 people. The boat will be lighted by electricity and have searchlights and a line-throw-ing gun. Her motor power will be two 375 h.p. Thornycroft engines of the type on coastal motorboats in the navy.