NEWS IN BRIEF

Opunake Times, 20 May 1932, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF

A diligent search is 'being made for the overdue German flying boat. Vessels are keeping a sharp look-out. A Batavia message says the destroyer Flores has been sent to Koepaug to search for the flying-heat. * * * * The British Columbia municipalities are demanding that the Dominion Government should amend the Immigration Act to permit the deportation of undesirable aliens regardless of their time in the country. There is a five years’ limit now. * * * • The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent states that Dr. Bruoniug received Herr Schleicher who, it is understood declines to join the Ministry. The Tageblatt remarks that an answer must be given who rules Germany, the military or the civilians. * * • « Following six years’ investigation and trial, in which one hundred witnesses were examined, a former Premier of Lithuania, Vytautas Petrulls, accused of defalcations while in office, has been sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay £2050. * * * * The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay McDonald, after spending some time at Downing Street will travel to Lossiemouth to complete his convalescence. 11c will be away about three weeks, returning lor the Lausanne Reparations Conference, which opens on June Kith. • « » • A granary and its contents, at Ashburton, the property of Mr. A. Reid, Eiffel ton, were destroyed by fire on Wednesday. The origin is unknown. The insurances on the building were £2OO and on the machinery, including a car which was partly burned, £545. all in Lloyd’s office. • * * • Roused by the coughing of his daughter in another bedroom, T. Hanley, a Post and Telegraph employee residing at Solway, in the early hours of Wednesday awakened to find his house full of smoke. He hurriedly roused his wife and family, who escaped in their night attire. < « • * The Minister of Foreign Affairs (Sonor Lamas) said reports circulated abroad to the effect that Argentina would send an observer to Imperial economic conference at Ottawa in July were without foundation. He said Argentina never thought to interfere in private deliberations within the British Empire. » * * * A statement on finance presented by the treasurer of the Otago University shows that the college is losing £IOOO annually on its income from investluejits. 'Ube rentals in arrear totalled nearly £SOOO, while next year they should expect a reduction of at least £IOOO in training college income, with the probability of no training college in a few years.