NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 July 1929, Page 9

NEWS IN BRIEF.

RUGBY, July 15. The Rit. Hon. A. V. Alexander, First Loud of the Admiralty, referred in ai speech at Sheffield to-day ho the H 47 submarine disaster. He hoped that in future there would be an international agreement to ban submarines as weapons, oil’ warfare.

LONDON, July 16. Squadron-Leader Kangsford Smith and party of the Southern Cross placed wreaths on the Cenotaph this morning;, Squadron-Leader AVrigley accompanied the Australian fliers as representative of the Royal Air Force. MELBOURNE, July 16. Herbert Bowiids, a middle-aged labourer, has, been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for manslaughter. The evidence was that he beat a boy, named Foster, t so severely with the buckle end of a strap that the boy died. The boy’s offence, was stealing jam. SYDNEY, July 16. Influenza is rife in the city. Hospital nursing staffs are seriously depletNVASHINGTON, July 15. The. State Department announces that President Hoover will proclaim the Kellogg Pact for the outlawry of war effective on July 24. AVASHINGTON, July 15. The Canadian acreage sown ini wheat thus year is officially estimated at 24,305,300 acres, or one per cent-, increase over that of last year. The condition of the wheat crop on June 30 in percentage of average yield for the previous ten yeans is estimated at 88 per cent. LONDON, July 15. Stock-holders in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company are becoming alarmed at the recent heavy fall in their holdings, states the “Daily Telegraph.” Ordinary shares which were £76 earlier in the year, closed at £4O yesterday. The fail of all tire stocks of the company represents an aggregate decline this year of £4.500,000. BERLIN, July 16.

The North German Lloyd’s new liner Europa, 60,000 tans, which had been virtually reconditioned after the sgoent disastrous fire in the dock, narrowly escaped destruction again. The ship had just left the floating dock when an explosion sank the rear section of the doth.