News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 29 July 1938, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

The Secretary for .Colonies, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said Britain at present was recruiting 236 extra British police to proceed to Palestine.. # * # * Australia’s trade with foreign countries'in the year just ended resulted in a favourable /balance of £3,477,000, Australian currency, compared with a favourable balance of £16,909,000 in 1936-37. * * * .* The death has occurred of Jack Judge,. composer of the famous waiv time song, '‘lt’s a Long Way to Tipperary.” * * * * Sir Hubert Wilkins, who is in Vancouver to engage a surgeon, states that his South Pole expedition will leave early in August, with a ’plane, by steamer for Capetown. There they will transfer the ’plane on to a small vessel and sail for Enderbyland. From there they will fly non-stop 2000 miles over the Pole to Little America. Sir Hubert is confident that the expedition will secure valuable aviation and meteorological information. » * * * The official designation of Federal territory: “Territory for the seat of the Government of the Commonwealth,” will be changed to-day to: “Australian Capital territory.” The Act authorising the alteration was passed a month ago. $ * >f, * It is announced that all divorce proceedings in Germany will, in future, be held in camera. # * * * The death has occurred in London of Thomas Serean, an ex-navy petty officer, who went to the South Pole twice with Scott and once with Shacklcton. He once saved the lives of Scott and Evans by going to a base 150 miles away and returning laden with food. • .' •' * m Five university engineer graduates, says a message from Vancouver, were plunged 7000 feet to their deaths in a runaway cage in the Lamaque coal mine in Northern Quebec. The assistant superintendent was about to enter the cage when it dropped to the bottom of the shaft,

The British pick-a-plane Mercury reached Southampton at 8.21 p.m., having left Lisbon at 2.40 p.m. The 1500 miles between Botwood and the Azores were flown at an average speed of 200 m.p!h. * * ♦ * A message from London says that Mr Justice Bennett, delivering judgment in favour of Haile Selassie, with costs, in his claim against Cable and Wireless Ltd., said there was doubt Whether defendant can safely pay the plaintiff, who was granted a stay of execution in view of an appeal. Haile Selassie claimed £10,613 from Cable and Wireless Ltd., which the company contended applied to whomsoever was the sovereign of Ethiopia.

The United States Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, said the negotiations for British-American trade reciprocity were proceeding normally toward an agreement.. He added that completion of the agreement would be a tremendous contribution to business recovery, establishing peace and order all over the world. • t » A message from Sydney says the Federal Government has refused the request of the Chamber of Fruit and Vegetable Industries to permit the importation of New Zealand potatoes. * * * * “The Sun” reports the visit of the Maori choir to the charitable settlement at Hammondvilie established by Canon Hammond, where a large pig was cooked Maori fashion in the earth, and served to settlers and families, who greatly relished being treated by such a rare novelty. The chieftainness, Nepe Apatu, in Maori costume, supervised the cooking, and Bishop Bennett acted as a host to the delighted gathering.

Answering a question in the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr R. A. Butler, said he understood that Herr Albert Forster, district leader of the Nazi party in Danzig, had recently paid a short visit of a private nature to England. Herr Forster did not have any political discussions with a member of the Government.