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Roumania and Poland have signed a treaty of alliance.
Cricket and most other week-end sports were abandoned in Sydney on Saturday owing to the sodden condition of the grounds-. Twenty-five girl migrants have loft London for Brisbane. They will be available for engagements as domestics or lady helps. The ghostly spectacle of dancers moving rhythmically round a ballroom without music, but with earphones on their heads, is promised by Professor Low at a coming West End of London function. Music will bo played elsewhere in the building and the transmitter will be concealed in curtains.
Sir Kenneth Goodey, tho London bacteriologist, issues a warning against the man who “talks conhdcutialiy right into your face.” “These people aro very dangerous because "they may be suffering from disease unnecessarily active,” states the Scientist. Tho seventh anniversary of Fascism was celebrated throughout Italy. According to the London Observer’s Romo correspondent, Signor Mussolini stands forth to-day as the real master of Italy. His ambition is not merely to be a party leader Premier, but to change completely the whole spirit of Italy. Sir Thomas Lipton intends to build a yacht to be called Shamrock V. Ho will- issue a challenge for the America Cup in 1927. The steamer Garth Castle, bound from London to Capetown, struck a rock when approaching anchorage at Ascension Island. The vessel, with 418 passengers and crew, is awaiting a relief steamer from London.
Tho military committee of tho United States House of Representativs has approved a live-year building programme, designed to give the Army Air Service 2200 new ’planes at the end of that period. Girls’ memories are befit, but boys scoro wdien it comes to reasoning, says tho Industrial Fatigue Research Board, emphasising the success of its special examinations with a view to discovering the most suitable occupations for London school children. Thirteen Russians, including three military instructors, have been arrested in Canton and deported. Several strike leaders havo also been arrested. . Abdel Krim, the Riff leader, lias decided to rosum-c hostilities in Morocco. More aeroplanes havo arrived at the Riffian headquarters. Tho society for the suppression of vice in New York in a report published blames the Magistrate’s Courts, the novspap'ers, tho United States Post Office and the Department of Justice for the deluge of indecent pictures and immoral iitex-ature which is flooding the country. It is alleged that tho Courts havo strained the construction of the law, by which means accused persons have been acquitted, thereby emboldening producers to further indecencies.
In a Jewish breach of promise case in London evidence revealed that in Jewish circles anybody introducing a young couple who subsequently married was entitled to commission, tho extent ot -which depended on tho financial situatioa of the married couple. In summing up Mr Justice Macardie stated that the case cast a vivid light on modfern social conditions and matrimonial jdeals. After years of poverty, a Gloucester family are hoping for 1 good news) in answer to a cablegram sent to Perth, Austra a, on their behalf. The father, a baled, loft home, after which the wife ai. 1 her four children were obliged to ent; r the workhouse. The wife accider ally noticed an advertisement in a piper. The financial editor of Nation and Athene) um, commenting on the New South Wales loan, emphasises the lack of deti Is in tho prospectus. He then proceed to point out tho growth of the State’s debt and tho increase of the annual charge on it by £1,000,000 since i )24. “It is l ,” he says, “little short ( ! a scandal that , New South Wales ; able to raise money so cheaply by mei is of the Trustee Act.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 10
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