NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 August 1929, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

DELHI, Aug. 14. Nadir Khan's forces lia'e recaptured Jvhushi. putting the garrison of B a cell a Sakao. the Afghan King, to flight. LONDON, Aug. 14. John Gates. New York, has worn the same collar stud for 61 years, and lias not once lost it under the chest of drawers, says the correspondent of the “Daily News” at New York. It lias been declared the champion collar stud wear of the United States. John 1 is now 84 years of age. He lias worn Hie stud 14..150 times. TOKIO. Aug. 14. A bombing plane on an inspection Irip carrying high officers of the General Stall' crashed to-day on the outskirts of Tokio. Six of the stall' officers were killed. including .MajorGeneral Ogawa. Chief of Bureau. LONDON. Aug. 13. The death of Hugh McNanghton, Yiee-Drevost of Eton, was a tragic end of a brilliant classical scholar. He bad great influence at Eton, where ho had been educated and had been a master since 1886. He had been in poor health for a year, and disappear-; ed last week. His suicide was feared, j and dragging operations in the

Thames followed, until liis body was found floating near Windsor. SYDNEY, Aur., 14. Judge Curlewis sentenced William Moore, aged 2-5, a timber worker and striker, to 12 months’ imprisonment for inflicting serious injury on a volunteer timber worker aged 66. Judge Curlewis described Moore as a bruit* without a spark of manhood.' DELHI, Aug. 13. A remarkable discovery has been made near Hyderabad. Sind, where a big underground ball, with a roof supported by three great stone pillars., and three ante-chambers shrouded in dust, were found under the ruins of the palace of the former lianas of l’arkar. Heavy floods causing the river to overflow into a nearby lake exposed the entrance, and Hie cave was immediately scaled and guarded by Government orders. It is recalled that in 1869* following the Indian Mutiny, the British dethroned the lianas and burned the palace hoc a! inhabitants for many years believed the site contained an underground cave filled with treasure which was guarded bv snakes placed there by .the lianas, who. before they were deposed. ruled c. large portion of the Sind.