NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 April 1929, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

HOBART. April' 5. Six persons, including two children, j drowned when ajnotor car plunged into the Gawler River near Devon-ly-rt -V baby was rescued from a tree. ' ' SEATTLE-, April 4. M.ms Louise • McPeth ridge. Thaden hoder of the women’s endurance and attitudes records, is planning to -attempt a non-stop Pacific flignt fromi Seattle to- Totkio in June. Ste wi-U b© accompanied by co-pilot. navigator end radio operator in a tr’.-motored i/.aaie c.i .ir-ped with pontoons. SYDNEY, April -5. Tip' shipping conference has been frrme-d into- sectional committees for the- informal discussion of questions raise ! bv exporters and producers. The first- is the stabilisation of’ freights, with special .gel'e’eue;* to the efficiency of swv'ces- and the desirability of freight agreements' a.s opposed to open market- freights. The second is t-he creation oi advisorv committees m tlit int’vests -of shipper si and shipowners. SYDNEY. April 5. After 22 hours’ retirement the- jury aeauitted two brothers named LittCer and a. tliitd man named Callaghan. all of P ;l ,rices, who wore charged with a capital offence oil a- girl. The. accused were convicted at their first t-nial mi November 1 last, and were -sentenced to death. An appeal succeeded, however, and a new trial was ordered. A fourth man. McCarroi 1 !, wa« 'acquittedl at the former trial!.