CABLES IN BRIEF

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 128, 3 November 1930, Page 5

CABLES IN BRIEF

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF

THE WORLD

Progress of Oscar Garden.

Oscar Garden, the’New Zealand airman, who is flying to Australia, arrived at Singapore yesterday and departed at 6 o’clock to-day. Mrs Hook Re-Marries. Mrs Hook, widow of the airman, Erie Hook, who crashed in Burma a few months ago, has married a retired dentist, named Reginald Hooper. Mawson Expedition Sails The Discovery, on route to Antarctica, sailed yesterday for Hobart where Sir Douglas Mawson joins the expedition. Loyalty of Camera “On returning to my country I ask for the honour of being enrolled in the fifty-fifth battalion of blackshirts. I swear to serve the Duce with my whole life. ’ ’ —Camera. Salary of British Premier The recommendation of the select committee on the salaries of that the salary of the Prime Minister be increased from £5OOO to £7OOO a year will not for the time being be put into operation. Police Shoot a Man Kevin Fitzgerald, aged 21 years, of Adelaide, a cabinet-maker, was shot dead by the police while attempting to evade arrest at Parkside. He was jumping over the back fence of a house when the police commanded him to surrender, which he ignored. The police then fired. A Notable Dinner Parliamentarians from New Zealand to Newfoundland and from Bermuda to New South Wales met in the Royal gallery of the House of Lords when the Empire Parliamentary Association gave a dinner to the delegates to the Imperial Conference. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, who presided, describes the conference as anything but barren. Poverty Stricken Poet

That Sir William Watson is lying ill and poverty-stricken is revealed by a letter signed by many famous authors, artists, actors and other prominent personages including Sir .Tames Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Mr Lloyd Gteorge and Lord Burnham, inaugurating a testimonial fund. Wool Merchant’s Suicide The dead body of Frank Dillon Bell, aged 70, a well-known member of a Sydney -wool firm, was discovered on the Harbour foreshore at Mosman with a bullet wound in the temple. A revolver lay near the body. Deceased had been missing for nearly a weiek. The recent disturbed political outlook had played on his mind. Hobbs’ Visit to India. Hobbs and Sutcliffe, who were invited to India, have arrived at Bombay. Speaking of test matches, Hobbs said England will be truly beaten. He was inclined to be pessimistic about the future. He deplored the fact that there were no outstanding players coming forward and could not recall one batsman in England w*ho was likely to follow in the footsteps of those gone. English Soldiers Slandered. Air Foster Fraser, addressing the All People *s Society, existing for the promotion of international friendship, said there was only one Great War country where English soldiers were fully appreciated, and that was Germany. He had visited all the Allied countries and everywhere heard depreciation of the English and the cruellest slanders on English soldiers. Mission to London Youth An evangelist recently returned from New Zealand to London, the Rev Lionel Fletcher, opened a great mission to London youth, planned three years ago, to last several months. Anglicans are uniting with Nonconformists. Air FJ,etclier spoke to 3000 people in the City Temple and another 2000 simultaneously heard him in the basement. Air Gipsy Smith is coming from America with' others to make a determined effort to win the young folk back to the churches.