NEWS IN BRIEF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17350, 15 May 1924, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Macluren has arrived at Allahabad and is departing for Calcutta on ThursA Maori woman, Mali urea Taurangn Meihana. has died at Clevedon, aged 105. according to an Auckland message to-day. The New South Wales Government lia.s decided to vote £20,00G for the pi rpose of providing productive work for tlie relief of unemployment. A Brisbane message says that - the threatened crisis in the police force has passed, an agreement having been reached. Some of the claims have been conceded. A Wellington message announced the death of Mr Gilbert Uaing-Meason, aged seventy-two, a well-known river drainage and irrigation engineer. A Press Association message from Hastings says;—Arthur Room, a restaurant proprietor, met with a fatal accident in Heretaunga Street last evening, as the result of a motor-car collision. He succumbed to his injuries this morning. His wife is on a voyage to England. A Sydney message says that Sir George Fuller has announced that the State Government will make no recommendations for birthday honours consequent on the motion carried at the pievious session of Parliament. !t is probable that the Federal Governi ment will include in its recommendations a number of persons resident in New South AVales. The report that the nailwaymen’s superannuation rights will he revived conditionally on the Amalgamated Society withdrawing from the Alliance of Labour was referred to the Minister of Railways and the Amalgamated' Society’s general secretary, both of whom declined to discuss it.

The personnel of the proposed Railways Comnaission is likely to be completed within a few days.

A (table from London says: The King and Queen, accompanied by Rumanian royalties, privately visited the Empire Exhibition, at Wembley. They were favoured by the warmest and sunniest day since the Exhibition opened. The tour included the palaces of Engineering, Industry, and the pavilions of India, .Burma, Ceylon. Hong Kong, British Guiana, the West Indies, Newfoundland and Fiji.

A mass meeting of the Federated Seamen’s Union of Australia decided to extend the boycott to the whole of the vessels of the MTlwraithM’Eacharn line. Eight steamers will he thrown idle. Representatives of the other maritime union attended to urge a settlement qn account of tha number of. their men involved, but were refused a hearing. It is understood that the M’Uwraith line will shortly cite the union in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court with a view to securing deregistration of the union. In the manslaughter case again Frank M’Devitt, the driver of the oar which knocked down Traffic Inspector Cross, who died from his injuries, 1 Harold Shotlander, a passenger in the car, said the car was racing another on the road from Trentiuam. At one time ou the bitumen track the speedometer showed forty-five miles an hour. Lawrence Cummins, another passenger, said he thought the car was going too fast, and appealed to the driver to “ cut it out.” They passed dozens of cars. When the car struck Cross it was travelling at twenty to twenty-five miles an hour.