NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3239, 6 December 1930, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

The Miners' Conference rejected the proposal for. a national strike by 230,000 votes to 209,000. Some miners were clearing the deep 'galleries in the Castrophau Zel colliery at Cologne after a fall of coal when they heard someone tapping. It proved to be Fritz Wienthal, who was supposed to have been killed four days previously. In the Reichstag on Thursday the Budget was presented by the Minister of Finance, Herr Dietrich. It provides for expenditure totalling £534,000,000. This represents a reduction of £71,000,000, obtained mainly by cuts in civil servants' wages and in payments to the States. At the RlOl inquiry Sir John Simon, the chairman, referred to the rumours current, especially in France, that a woman was aboard the vessel, that some of those on duty were not sober when they started, and that a large quantity of intoxicants was taken aboard. The mystery as to the identity of the man who was found dead in a burning motor car near. Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, on November 11 has been made more complicated by the supposed victim, Thos. Waite, walking into a police station and reporting himself. It seems likely that it will never be discovered whose body was in the car. The Sydney Communist hunger strikers are now in a bad way. Three are in hospital and one man is very weak. Gaol medical advices, however, are that forced feeding is not necessary yet. The value of the gold mined in Canada in 1929 was £7,972,200. This is the largest annual yield of the precious metal in the history of the Dominion.