CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10653, 7 August 1924, Page 3

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

LATEST WORLD HAPPENINGS. NEWS FROM PAR AND NEAR. There is much feeling in Melbourne over the murder of the girl Tuckering,n at Caulfield. Partially congealed blood was found outside one house, but investigations- throw no light on the crime. This outrage and other crimes have (awakened a determination in the minds of the Ministry to have the police force reorganised. The police are confident, they will shortly -effect an n rrest.

A message from. Montreal .states (hat Sir George Greenhill, aged 8.4, .one of the members of the British association for the Advancement of Science, is missing. He was on the special scientists’ train which left Quebec on Saturday morning. When the train arrived at Montreal he had disappeared completely, ami has not been seen for the past‘two days. Vickers’ factory at Erith has; reengaged the workers discharged during the trade depression. Vickers are making (an enormous milliner- of machine guns,, it is believed, for Japan. • The latest, reports are 'that Paddon and Felton are busy preparing for the world’s championship race, (and £5 0 0 aside on the Brisbane river on August 12. The contest will make the first occasion of the world’s championship being rowed on the Brisbane river. The Anglo-Russian Conference was still sitting at an early hour ca Ti esday morning endeavouring to reach a decision, prior to Mr Poiisonby’s expected statement .'in the House. The Italian airman, Captain Located!, has arrived at Hull from Amsterdam, on a round-the-world llight. I; '' ' . The British world ihgm pas been abandoned. A wireless from Squadron-Leader MacLaren, at Nikolski, states that the wings, floats and tail were smashed . Spares are unavailable, and consequently it- is necessary to abandon the flight. Tiie hull and engine were salv|aged and taken aboard the trawler Thiepval. The machine fell near Nikolski on Saturday, as Squadron-Leader MacLiven was about to complete the flight from Petropavlovsk. The Thiepval reached Nikolski on Saturday evening, having hurried from Petropavlovsk after the plane departed from there on Thursday. Squadron-Leader MacLaren, in a later message, states that owing' to thick fog he was forced to descend near the Komandorski Islands, damaging the machine seriously. He will return by way of Vancouver in the Thiepval.