NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 March 1929, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

♦ NEW YORK, March 17. Louise Moßhcbridge set a. new record tor women in a. continuous airplane flight of 22hr Turin on Sunday. LONDON, March 18. Trial flights have been successfully completed of a special! seaplane commissioned by the- Arr Ministry. .Its wings fold back, enabling it to be carried 1 on a submarine, from which it. can quick!v be launched. An exhibition of the latest treasures from Tutankhamen’s tomb was opened at Cairo on March 17. It is the most beautiful -<*t sefeu. It includes a wonderful gold bed, an atabaster boot, tbe first real sickle sword ever found, and two ivorv boxes of games exquisitely carved. MELBOURNE, March 18. The niinua'i eight-hour d«4v procession was held to-day in drizzling rain. Thle moat noteworthy feature was. the presence of the timber strikers, whose banners stressed the desire 1 for 44 hours... Rub'iie enth-uslasm was., however, lukewarm. MELBOURNE, March 18. Australia’s first grand .prix 200nniileis road race for motor-ears was held today at Phillip Island l on a track of six and a quarter mines, 31. laps, in which 12 British. 10 French and one Italian cars competed. Many exciting . incidents resulted. A. Terdich, driving a Bngatti car. was first : W. Lowes, in a Lombard. eras second; and R. BrCiarley, in a. G.P. Bugatti, was third. Tlie winner's time wais 3hr 48min 21 sec. NEW YORK, March. 17. Shares in the Ford Company, of Canada, rose 304 points on the curb today in one of the most spectacular advances in the history of the stock market. following an overnight announcement of the proposed twenty for one split l up of the stock. The- curb, although accustomed to wild gyrations m this stock. was nevertheless amazed when it opened on a transaction of 400 doll ars’’ representing a gain of 204, and continued - vising during the day. Stockholders will receive 20 shares for each old one. 19 being non-voting shares.