POINTS FROM THE NEWS

Northern Advocate, 21 October 1935, Page 5

POINTS FROM THE NEWS

TTjrmLE sleeping at Croydon aerpdrome in readiness to start on the flight . to? Australia, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith became ill. His complaint has been diagnosedas.a cold, but it is hoped he will be able' to start about Wednesday. STRIKERS. elsewhere than in the . - ; Ninb Mile Point colliery, South Wales’ are still holding but. Between 35,000 and 40,000 are reported to be on strike." 1 .. ■" ■ ■ ■DRINCE Faroiik, heir apparent to ■ the throne of Egypt, who is visiting England, intends to attend a course at the Royal Military Academy, Woplwich. q>HE King of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Baud, who is 67 years of age, was married by proxy in Damascus to the' daughter of a Damascus sheik; Mareo, when he stands trial on the charge of murdering his wife last April, will probably have as leading counsel for the defence Mr H. F. Humphrey O’Leary, K.C., of Wellington, who is prepared to undertake the defence, now that an adjournment of the trial to the February session is assured, provided a satisfactory arrangement is made for a retainer. T ESLIE Samuels, aged 15, of Christchurch, who was unable to swim, Was drowned about midday yesterday when a flat-bottomed boat, in, which he and a companion were sailing, capsized. His companion swam to the shore. A’ DAYLIGHT hold-up, in which £SO was stolen from Mr James O’Neill, a collector of the Wellington Gas Company, was carried on in a lonely part * of the road between Lyall and Horton Bays about 11 o’clock on Saturday morning. Mr O’Neill pickeM up two men in his car. He was struck on the head several times ahd carried to jbhe side of the road. His assailants then made off in the car. TN order to prepare for the arrival next year of the first of the two new cruisers for the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, work will proceed to make the Deyonport Naval base larger. The Government recently authorised the expenditure of £ 13,900 on necessary work both at the Naval base and the new defence area at Kauri Point. t)ANGERC)US BLACK ARMY.—“The ■ - conflict between Italy and Abyssinia adutely raises the question whether the League can be relied upon to prevent war and give the world security,’’ said General Smuts at an insurance company’s dinner. “I fear the annexation or domination of Abyssinia by a great European Power would mean training splendid military material .into the biggest and most dangerous-black army the world has every seen, which would menace the peace of Europe.” A LBERT William. BUrton, aged 37, pleaded guilty in the Police Court, at Auckland, today to 35 charges of false pretences involving cash to the extent of £167, also benzine, oil and groceries to the extent of £l9. Mr Hunt remanded Burton for sentence until Friday. GHHE “Sydney Morning Herald” says A the Seamen’s Union was- dismayed when it was learned that the Niagara had sailed on Saturday. The seamen had scouted the suggestion that the company would take a strong hand and despatch the vessel with a nonunion crew, contending that the owners were attempting to intimidate them into manning the steamer, ; and that they would hold the volunteers in reserve. TT is understood that the schooner yacht Moerewa has been purchased from Mr J. W. S. McArthur by Mr Ernest Davis, Mayor of Auckland, who is a keen yachtsman and owner of the Viking, the largest yacht in the Auckland Harbour.