News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 31 March 1937, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

The Brisbane motor cyclist, Steve Langton, who was competing yesterday for the first time in England, at Hackney Wick Speedway, struck the back wheel of an opponent’s machine ,and swung across the track at a speed of 40 miles an hour. He struck the safety fence and was knocked unconscious. He also suffered leg injuries. * ■* * • The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” states that ten 7050-ton cruisers will be over-age before 1940, but the Navy, at present, has made no plans for replacing them. « « * • The United States Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Washington State minimum wage law for women. * * * • A wireless message from the steamer Volunteer, which was in distress in the Pacific, states that she is now proceeding to Kobe under her own power. * * * ♦ A telegram from Overton, Texas, states that 287 pupils attended the reopening of the New London High School, where the tragic explosion occurred on March 18. Many of the former pupils are still in hospitals, and others have remained at home, being still terrified.

Following a train wreck on the Caucasus railway, in which two soldiers of the “Red” Army were seriously injured, and 13 coaches derailed, an assistant station-master was executed and the engine-drivers of the two trains sentenced to 10 and heven years’ imprisonment respectively and two guards to three years’, says a Moscow message.

Herr Hiller has nominated FieldMarshal von Blornberg as his representative at the Coronation. Other members of the Nazi delegation are Admiral Otto Schulze, commander of the German Naval Forces in the North Sea, and Major-General Stumpff. from the Air Force.

The Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company is to discontinue its service to Australia pending the adjustment of its mail contract. The last ship of the line will leave Los Angeles on April 1. The suspension of the service is temporary, and is due to uncertainty as to the action of the new Maritime Board. The move is also interpreted as an effort to secure western representation on the board.

Through overwinding the pit cage, 35 miners were killed in a Durban gold mine. The cage crashed into 30 feet of water at the bottom of the shaft, and one European and 34 natives were trapped like rats and drowned.

In the Orford, which arrived at Fremantle from London, Lord Wakehurst, new Governor of New South Wales, and his wife are passengers.

The Commonwealth Government has issued invitations , to the State Government to a conference to discuss uniform methods of control of aviation in Australia, following the defeat in the recent referendum, whereby the Commonwealth failed to gain absolute control of civil aviation in Australia.

M. Le Brim, President of France, will inaugurate the World’s Rotary Congress on June 6.

Damage in the Brisbane fire which destroyed five buildings owned by Castlemaine, Perkins, Limited, is estimated to have caused loss amounting to £106,000. Hoses were kept on the building all day and even last 'mgnt when the debris was still smouldering. The fire also damaged adjoining buildings and a house.