NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 31 August 1929, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

LONDON, August 27. Harry Holman, aged 28, a labourer, lias been: arrested and formally charged with the manslaughter of Constable Self, who was found terribly injured in the head at Goilder’s Green, and died in hospital. Holman was remanded. RUGBY, August 28. A birth rate of 16.7 per 1000, the lowest recorded with one exception since the establishment of civil registration ,and a death rate of -11.7 per 1000, which' with two exceptions is also the lowest recorded, are outstanding featurOss of the statistical review of the nation’s! papulation for 1928 issued by the registrar-general yesterday. Siir Thomas Lip ton, the veteran yachtsman and founder of the firm which hears his name, left London today for America, to make final arrangements' .for his : fifth . attempt to win back for Britain the American Cun

yachting tropny ,for winch he has been competing since 1899 without suoess. RUGBY. August 28. • The Medical Research Council has announced that it has. received from Mrs. Odo Cross £40,000 as an endowment of a trust for the establishment of research fellowships for the study of tuberculosis. OTTAWA, August 28. The Minister of Justice, the Hon. Ernest Lapointe will represent the Canadian Government at the. meeting in London on October 8 of the committee to consider and make recommendations regarding the legal points raised at the last Imperial conference. ROME) August 29.

Archaeologists have unearthed at Gyrene a marble slab on which is inscribed the will of the Egyptian King Ptolemy VIII, bequeathing his kingdom to the Romans in the event of his death without an heir. VANCOUVER, August 29. Closing a. five weeks’ .tour of British Columbia, "Mr. R, B. Bennett. Federal Conservative leader, speaking at Ferine, again contended that the New Zealand trade treaty had worked to the disadvantage of Canada and had destroyed tl,ie Canadian dairy industry. It had reduced the number of cows, increased the price of meat and mad© the Dominion a ; dependent country for butter. “Our party,” declared: Mir. Bennett, “will never consent to a transaction or treaty which will destroy any industry indigenous to Canada.” SYDNEY, August 29. Percy Spittle house has been remanded on a, change of manslaughter arising out of the tragedy at Newtown on August 11. when a lorry driven by Snitt'lehouse got out of control, mounted the footpath dud killed a man and a boy.

The New South, Wales Rowing Association executive views favourably the suggestion made by Mr. Duncan, .New Zealand representative here, that this State should give asistance to enable New Zealand oarsmen to visit Australia next season. The Full Court has held -that betting at dog raring at Mascot and Harold Park, where eight dogs and a live hare are used in each event, is illegal. The Court had previously banned fretting at tin hare meetings, which Caused the clubs to resort to live hares in order to enable betting to take place. RUGBY. August 28. The Prime Minister to-dav received a, deputation representing the trade unions concerned with the engineering and shipbuilding trades on Tyneside. Tli© deputation desombed the extent of unemployment in the- area and asked that special consideration should be given to it in. the working out of plans which the Government has in hand for dealing with general unemployment problems. The Prime Minister in reply said he and his colleagues would give consideration to the views and suggestions put forward by the deputation.