News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 11 August 1938, Page 7

News In A Nutshell

The Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, will come to London tomorrow for a visit to the Foreign Office, which he is paying weekly during the recess. It is likely he will have a talk With the Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, in the course of the day.

An estate valued at £22,462 was left by the late Mr C. F. Warren, formerly general manager in Australia and New Zealand of the Prudential Assurance Company, who died on May 31. He bequeathed all to his widow and son.

The Rev. U. E. Harding has had his sight restored after the removal of the cornea from a woman’s eye shortly after her death, and the grafting of it upon his own. The woman, who was a member of Mr Harding’s church, bequeathed the eye to him after he had vainly pleaded with condemned prisoners in San Quentin Gaol for one.

The Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, who is suffering from nasal catarrh, was visited by a specialist today, and later went for a drive with Mrs Chamberlain.

The water supply of Sydney is becoming so low that it is causing anxiety in official quarters. The shortage is due to the rainfall having been less than the average in the past 18 months. Severe restrictions are now imposed, precluding the use of Hoses for any purpose except the suppression of fires. No new sewerage reticulations are allowed.

Tire Colonial Secretary, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, who, has arrived at Malta from Palestine, spent most of the day in interviewing political leaders and prominent Maltese citizens about the new Constitution and other matters concerning the island. It will be recalled that on July 29, before the House of Commons rose for the long vacation, Mr MacDonald announced that he proposed shortly to submit to the King letters patent for a new Constitution for Malta, which would give the people a considerable mcasui’e of participation in the conduct of their own affairs. The Minister will leave tomorrow for London.

On his return from his honeymoon at Bermuda on August 15, Mr. John Roosevelt, aged 22, the youngest son of President Roosevelt, will take a job in a departmental store at £4/10/- a week. He wants to learn the business from the bottom. # « fr * The strength of the territorial army on August 1 was 186,528 officers and men, compared with the peace establishment of 201,707. Although July, coming as it does just before the camp period, is not usually a good month for recruiting, last month, with 4098 recruits, beat all the records since 1925. The net increase for the whole of the territorial army was 1522.

A message from Jerusalem states that an armed gang held up Barclay’s Bank at Nablus and escaped with £SOOO. Jewish press reports allege that gang leaders are worried over the cutting off of funds from abroad, and have decided to raise £25,000 locally, suggesting that this hold-up is but the forerunner of others.

“Economic suicide is threatening Canada under the proposed three-way —United Kingdom-United States-Can-ada —trade pact,” Mr R. B. Bennett, Conservative leader, told a meeting of his party. “A system of family preference has been established among the British nations and now the United States wants to penetrate the United Kingdom markets,” he continued. “The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr MacKenzie King, is willing to give away preference and privilege for a chance to enter the United States’ markets. There will be disaster if Canada thus sells out.”

a retirement of 20 minutes X on Tuesday morning, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which William Thomas Rosewarne. of Fraser Road, near Hawera, was charged with assaulting Charlie Tumcana, so as to cause him bodily harm, and alternatively with common assault. The charges arose out of occurrences at what was described as a drinking party at the home of the accused.