CONDENSED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 104, 1 April 1926, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLES.

An Englishman, Harper, won tho eight miles international cross-country championship, held in Belgium, in 44 min 17sec. Fifteen men are reported ix> have boon killed 12 miles from Birmingham, Alabama (United States), when a workers’ train collided with a freight train. The Now South Wales Cabinet has decided strictly to enforce the retirement of all civil servants on their reaching the ago of 65. In very extraordinary circumstances alone will the rule be overridden. Five labourers were killed, and three injured when a stone cliff collapsed into an adjoining excavation where the foundation was being prepared for the proposed 65-storey Christian Missions Building in New York. Tho revised estimate, due to a supplementary estimate and other alterations to the British Navy Estimates for 1925-26, amounts to £19,122,000, compared with tho original £18,691,000.

Three alleged English spies in France and two women accomplices have been committed for trial on a charge of having collected or attempted to collect information regarding the security and defence of the country. The civil list estimates for 1926 were laid before the British House of Commons. The Dominions Office vote provides £3500 for tho expenses of a possible visit by the Secretary for the Dominions and Colonies, Mr L. C. Amery, to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada and South Africa.

In the British Houso of Commons, in reply to a question as to what steps were being taken to ensure the secrecy of trans-Atlantic, telephony, recent tests of which were heard by many amateur experimenters, the Postmas-ter-General, Sir W. Mitchell Thompson, said that action was being taken to achieve complete secrecy. The British Houso of Commons agreed to the standing orders being amended to the effect that a member defying the Chair be suspended for five Parliamentary days on the first occasion, for 20 days on the second, and thereafter until the House terminates his suspension. At a meeting of tho executive of the National Fascist Party at Rome Signor Farinacci announced his resignation of tho Secretary-Generalship, stating that ho felt that he had accomplished the mission for which lie; assumed office. Fivo other members of! tho Fascist directorate resigned at the same time in order to leave Signor Mussolini’s hands completely free. There is no likelihood of a radical change in 'Fascist policy. Speaking at the official luncheon at Sydney in connection with the Royal Agricultural Show, tho Prime inister, Mr Bruce, said that the Governmcn had decided to appoint a migration and development commission representative of ail sections of tho community to consider all schemes submitted under tho migration agreement with tho British Government.

The International Radiophone Convention at Geneva prof>ost\s to rule the world’s air waves. This is revealed by the London Evening News in outlining the now approved scheme for the re-distribution of wave-lengths. The scheme includes the division of all stations into two classes. - Tho scheme disregards wave-lengths under 200 metres, and reserves exclusive wavelengths for countries where broadcasting is still undeveloped, It is expected that Britain will lose one or more main stations, the exclusive British stations being London and Daventry. It is revealed that tho Due d’Orleans died in the arms of his sister, Queen Amelia of Portugal. It is reported that tho Due do Guise is renouncing the succession to tho Duchy of Orleans.