NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 67, 6 March 1929, Page 5

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

LATE CABLES IN BRIEF. A Mysterious Suicide; The police at Winnipeg (Canada) have refused to divulge information regarding the suicide.of Arthur S. Fairchild, aged 45. which was reported on Tuesday as having occurred on Saturday. It is known that the deceased was a former resident of Melbourne. The man shot himself at his home, but the coroner and police are silent as to the details.

Repairs to St. Paul’s; At the present rate of progress it is expected that the whole of St. Paul’s will be available for the services of the Lamheth Conference in the summer of 1930. The repairs so far have cost £154,000.

Soviet Motor Factory; The Soviet is constructing a motor-car factory with an output of 100,000 annually.

Compensation for Injuries; Statistics covering the operation of the Workers’ Compensation Act in New South Wales show that the number compensated for injuries received in the year ended June 30 last, totalled 61,000. The compensation paid in all cases amounted to £733,965, nearly double the amount for the previous year.

Migration Misfits: Three migration misfits were sentenced at East Ham (England) to 21 days’ imprisonment for stowing away on the Ascamus from Fremantle. They told the stereotyped story that they could not get work and were starving, and that dozens of distressed persons were frequenting the piers in the hopes of getting away.

Arrest of Alleged Murderer: From details received by the Marsina, which has arrived at Sydney from Rabaul, of the attack made a month ago upon the Government party in tlio Inonge district, it appears that two patrol officers and a party of native police went to the village of Goilala in an attempt to arresix a native murderer. The villagers showed ■'open hostility, and, in the' resulting conflict one native policeman was wounded and nine Goilala men shot. The murderer was eventually arrested, and is now awaiting his trial.

Coal Industry; The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin) is to-day receiving a deputation from the Miners’ Federation, which desires to put before him proposals to improve the conditions in the coalmining industry.