NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3372, 1 October 1931, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Free trade with Britain will be considered by the United Farmers' party of Manitoba at more than 300 meetings in the latter part of October.

Commander Glen Kidston, the famous dare-devil motorist and airman, who was killed, in a 'plane crash during a dust-storm in South Africa, left estates to the value of £216,000.

Approximately 20,000,000 dollars in gold, the largest shipment to leave the United States in a single day for more than two years, left on Tuesday for Switzerland and France on the Europa and Apuitania. The largest portion was to France.

Sir Hubert Wilkins arrived at Newcastle from his Arctic cruise in the submarine Nautilus. He stated that he is already planning another expedition to the Pole by submarine. He said that the mechanical equipment of the Nautilus was unsatisfactory and was too complicated for a small crew.

Fancy paying 3/6 dozen for eggs. Buy now while they're cheap and preserve in Sharland's Egg Preservative. (11)

The famous violinist, Jan Kubelik, places a greater value on his hands than the £24,000 for which he had them insured. He .has cancelled that policy, declaring that the amount was not enough to compensate him for the loss of even one finger.

The Daily Mail's correspondent at Brest says that the salvage steamer Artiglio is now within an inch of the £1,000,000 which lies in the strongroom of the sunken liner Egypt.

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds, never fails,

Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith, who is attempting to beat Mr. J. A. Mollison's record of 8 days 22 hours 25 minutes for the flight from Australia to England, arrived at Bagdad at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday.

It is stated that the British Cabinet is at present considering the idea of appealing to the country as a National Government without any programme, and asking for a free hand to deal with the crisis, neither specifying nor excluding any particular measure.

Alderman Maurice Jenks, who will shortly be knighted by King George, was at Guildhall on Tuesday elected Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing civic year.

The executive of the British Labour Party has decided that all its members who support the National Government shall automatically cease to be members of the party. Thus Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Snowden, Mr. Thomas, Sir William Jowitt and 10 other members of Parliament are expelled. -