Flashes From Overseas

Northern Advocate, 6 December 1935, Page 5

Flashes From Overseas

STRANGE TRAGEDY. —An aeroplane, piloted by Douglas Way, was taking off from Crescent Head Beach, 320 miles north of Sydney, when, it crashed into a party of campers in a tent. Mrs Violet McKernan, aged 60, was killed, and her daughter, Thelma, aged 23, was seriously injured and the other campers had narrow escapes. The aeroplane, was wrecked but the pilot and his companion escaped with minor injuries.

FRENCH NAVAL CRUISE.—It is learned from Nice that two French cruisers and three destroyers will start on a cruise from Toulon .on Sunday in Corsican waters.

N.Z. RIFLE SHOOTING WlN.— The Otago High School won the Roberts Cadet'Trophy for rifle shooting, with 295 points. The Wellington Regiment, Silverstream College, was fourth with 284; Newington College, Sydney, 278, was 6th; Brisbane Grammar School Artillery Cadets, 250, 9th; Mt. Albert Grammar - School, Auckland, 230, 10th.

GERMAN PRAISE.—The , Reich sports leader telephoned,.the result of the Soccer match between Britain and a Nazi side from London direct to Herr Hitler in Berlin, where newspapers lavishly praised the English team and expressed gratitude at the crowd’s attitude towards the Germans.

ROYAL RECEPTION OFF.—It is announced that the- customary New Year reception to the Diplomatic CorpS and notables by their Majesties the King and Queen of Italy will hot be held. A decree suspends indefinitely publication of Treasury and Bank of Italy returns, also statements relating to the public debt.

WOMAN ACQUITTED.—In the Sydney, Criminal Court, Blanche Petersen, aged 18, was found not guilty of the murder of. Leslie Tickner, a boxer. Accused denied the truth of her original statement to the police that she had accidentally shot Tickner. That statement, she said, had been made while she was in an overwrought cohdition.

HIGH MASONIC POSITIONS.—The Earl of Harewood, son-in-law to His Majesty, has been installed Pro Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, in succession to Lord Ampthill. The Duke of Connaught, the King’s uncle, was nominated Grand Master, for the 36th successive year.

BRITISH TREASURY J^OANS.— Applications of £2,000,000 Or under for the Treasury bond issue of £200,000,000 at 2| per cent, interest, announced recently have received full allotment. Those over that figure have be&n given allotments of 89 per cent. Full allotments have been given to applications with £50,000 or under for the funding loan of £100,000,000, at 1 per cent., announced simultaneously. Those with more than this figure will receive an average of 92 per cent. Dealings for the funding loan opened at 5/ discount and for the Treasury bond at 2/6 discount. ,

PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.—Viscbunt Hailsham, during the. Privy Council hearing of a /number of Ausitralian cases, said that the judicial committee had no desire to encourage appeals from the Supreme Court of any of the Dominions. Decisions of the High Court of Australia or any other Dominion, were prima facie final and there must, to grant special leave to appeal, be a case involving some difficult question of law or fact and must be a matter of great public interest and importance.

JAP. LAWN TENNIS.— The final of the Japanese lawn tennis championship resulted: Singles, Jiro beat Yamagishi, 7—5, 6—2, 6—l. Doubles, Yamagishi and Reizomurakami beat Menzel and Hecht (Czechoslovakia), 2—6, 5—7, 6—3, 6—4, 6—4.

SIR R. CASEMENT’S REMAINS.Mr De Valera,* in the DailT said the Government was moving to secure the remains of Sir Roger Casement, at present buried in Trentonville prison, London, to return them to Ireland for re-interment in the Free State.

WHAT SINGAPORE HAS COST.— It is officially stated that the amount spent on the Singapore Base up to October 21 ajnounted to £5,113,800. It is estimated that the remaining expenditure will be £3,500,000. These figures do not include £971,000, the cost of the floating dock.

THE “FLYING FLEA.”— The first Britishr-'built “Flying Flea,” a tiny aeroplane with a 10-h.p. engine, piloted by Mr S. V. Appleby, flew the channel from Lympne in 35 minutes, using less than 2 gallons of petrol. It is recalled that M. Bleriot’s original crossing occupied 37 minutes.