CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10315, 26 January 1927, Page 7

CABLE NEWS

WORLD-WIDE HAPPENINGS. At the inquest in Melbourne -on Eileen Clarke, whose body was found among some fern, the Coroner returned an open verdict. The police have not yet decided whether action will be taken against the nurse who was arrested. A meeting of the executive of the N.S.W. Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association strongly opposed any attempt on the part of the Government to form a compulsory wheat pool, and suggested that a Pool Enabling Act be passed as a measure preliminary to any progressive marketing system. The Hon. .Violet Gibson, who attempted to kill Mussolini, has been released and taken to an asylum at Cecc-ano, states a Rome message.

The N.S.W. Cabinet has decided to re-introduce a Bill during the present session to provide for adult municipal franchise. This will bo the third attempt to pass the Bill. The Daily News’ Vienna corr.es'pondent says that 1200 awests, 30 executions and also many life sentences are reported from Albania as the result of risings. The Deutsche Lufthansa, comprising the whole German air transport, covered 3,816,000 miles in 1926, and carried 65,268 pasengers and 944 tons of baggage, freight and' "mails.— Times.

In a racial fight between a number of Australians and Italians at Koo-wee-ltup, Gippsland, knives were freely used. A number of men were injured, and six were taken to hospital.

At the first convention of the new Australian Liberal Party, in Melbourne, which will contest the next Victorian elections and subsequently enter the Federal election campaign as a separate political entity, the charter of the party was read. This was mostly only of State interest. It includes the furtherance of all State enterprises in the matter of public utilities, no compulsory Government monopoly of transport, payment by results in industry, the limitation oi borrowing and no pre-selection candidates.

The Times’ Strasbourg correspondent says a fragment of the colors of the Eighth Cuirassiers, which were practically annihilated at the Battle of Vorth in 1870, have been dramatically recovered. A dying non-commis-sioned officer picked up the colors on the field and handed them to the occupant of his next bed in hospital, requesting that they be forwarded to the regiment. The recipient sold the gold embroidery, made a necktie of the blue silk, and kept the white silk with the golden inscription of the battle honors. This latter portion lias now been acquired for the Army Museum.—Times.