Flashes From Overseas

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1936, Page 5

Flashes From Overseas

AORANGI FOR N.Z.—The Aorangi left Sydney for Auckland yesterday afternoon. Twenty-one New South Wales bowlers left by the liner for a tour of New Zealand.

■ rs.s.w. MINERS AND STRIKE.— The northern coalminers are to hold meetings on Sunday to discuss action against the introduction of the Transport Workers’ Act against the striking seamen.

YOUTH CHARGED WITH MURDER. —In the Wagga Wagga (New South Wales) Police Court, Roy Malcolm Soutar, aged 17, was remanded on a charge of having murdered Christopher Grazier, aged 22, whose body, with hands tied above the head, which was covered by a bag, and with a bullet in the skull, was found in a well on a nearby station. Murder theories, however, have been rejected in the case of the death of Jack Conway, aged 59. a cook, whose body was -found in an underground tank, the lid of which was replaced, at Matong. The police have learned that Conway had been blind in one eye for years, and was short-sighted in the other.

GOLD PRICE UP.—The price of gold in Lopdon today is.£7 1/4. compared with £7 1/2 yesterday.

DOLLAR AND FRANC.—The American. dollar is quoted today at 4 .92 15-16 to the pound sterling, and the franc at 74 7-16. POLICE INJURED—Eight police were injured in further students’ riots in Cairo. MAHARAJAH’S JUBILEE GIFT.— In celebration of his own diamond jubilee the Maharajah Gaekwar of Baroda, who was himself a peasant boy before being called to the throne of his faith at the age of 13, is giving a sum of £ 750,000 in the form of a trust fund to benefit his rural population, particularly the depressed classes, and to improve village life and raise the standard of living.

WILL VOTE BE SPLIT?—Dr O. H. Mover, of Glasgow, better known as the novelist James Bridie, is not to contest the Scottish University seat in the House of Commons at the forthcoming by-election. Mr MacDonald’s friends hope that this withdrawal will avert the threatened split in the national vote. >

LANDSLIDE DEATHS.—Two sweethearts, Mdlle Kellier and M. Gourand, and a couple with a child, were walking to Paris beneath the famous hill of St. Germain when a sudden land.slide, caused by rain, overwhelmed them. They were all killed.

CHRISTIANITY AND TEMPERANCE.—The death is recorded of F. N. Cherrington, founder of; the Tower Hamlet Mission, who sacrificed a fortune estimated at £1,260,000, built up by his father, a brewer, in order to devote his life to the cause of Christianity and temperance. “He opposed the Football Association in the great war as the greatest hindrance to recruiting in the United Kingdom. He also moved the mace in the House of Commons, as a protest against a proposed liquor nationalisation bill.

FORMER GOVERNOR PASSES.The death is announced of Sir Fran • cis Newdegate, former Governor of Tasmania and Western Australia. He served with the Australian Imperial Forces in the great war and represented two Warwickshire electorates in the House of Commons.

FAMOUS SINGER DIES IN POVERTY.—Madame Spala, wife of the New Zealand singer, Philip Newberry, both of whom were world-famous on the opera stage last century, and who were reported to be living in poverty and bad health in a New _ York tenement last month, has died following a long illness.