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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 2

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England* experienced the warmest Good Friday since 187 G. Tho London Sunday papers forecast as Budget certainties that the income tax will not be altered; no increase in other direct taxes; or betting taxes.

The new Rumanian Government has ordered the suppression of two newspapers who both support the Nationalist party. Woolf Barnato, an amateur, driving a British car, broke all world’s records from 50 to 2000 kilometres at the Monthlery track in France, averaging 101 kilometres an hour for 16) hours. The Socialist playwright, George Bernard Shaw, has loaned £30,000 to the Easington Rural District Council (England) at 5) per cent for housing purposes/. Five people were killed and 92 men, women and children were injured—many fatally, it is believed—when an entire section of the balcony collapsed in a kinema theatre in Mexico City, and fell on the spectators below.

Thousands of bales of wool were destroyed in a spectacular fire, in which a five-storey dockside warehouse at Shadwell was completely gutted. Thirty fire engines converged on tho sceno from all parts, of London. Guests eating a birthday cako at the homo of Mr George Hill, of Penge, a London suburb, in celebration of his hundredth birthday, were surprised to see the vicar enter and announce, “Well, wo are a year late. I could not find his birth record in the 1826 register, so went back and found it in 1825.

Diplomatic circles in Egypt believe that Mr Rockefeller’s project to build a fivc-million-dollar museum in Cairo in which to house relics will not be accepted by tho Egyptian Government. They say that Cabinet will reject the proposal even if the Prime Minister, Ziwar Pasha, approves of a plan to have the museum controlled by an international commission.