News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 8 January 1938, Page 7

News In A Nutshell

The Cairo correspondent of “Tire Times” says the Wal'd Party will hold a national congress on February 12. The correspondent of the United Press at San Mateo, California, says it is learned definitely that a representative of the Duke of Windsor has made informal inquiries as to the possibility of leasing the mansion of Mr Leon Douglas, a wealthy inventor. Naval oflicials mar (hat one of the largest and most pow erful bombers attached to the United States Fleet, which has been missing for more than 24 hours, with seven men on board, has crashed in the sea, A wide search has been marie but no (rare of the machine has been Com id. « * For the first time, records of AngloIlalian trade resulted in a favourable balance towards Italy. British exports to Italy for 11 months of 1937 were estimated at £5,026,000, while ItaP'm exports to Britain were £6,239,000.

The four main line railway companies have authorised the construction in 1938 of 155 new locomotives, and more than 2200 new passenger vehicles. Schemes have also been authorised for the improvement of more than 1200 miles of track. —t8.0.W.) The increase in the unemployment for December by 160,024, as compared with the previous month, is partly duo to the seasonal recission of activity, but io a large extent, as the British Ministry of Labour returns show, to the fact that the weather on the day of the count was very severe and interrupted work in. outdoor occupation. The Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. T. P. Gilmartin, and the Rev. Dr. Ryan, Professor of Schalastic Philosophy, Belfast, with the Very Rev. Father Owen Dudleys Superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, embarked at London on the Rangitiki. They are to participate in the centenary celebrations of the foundation of the Catholic Church in New Zealand.