CONDENSED CABLES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 120, 23 April 1925, Page 10

CONDENSED CABLES

Signor Mussolini has declared that the anniversary of the foundation of ltoine, traditionally aceeiited as April 21, i 53 (8.C.), shall ho a national holiday, instead of Labour Day. While walking near a cathedral in Venice a doctor heard a baby crying and tracing tho sounds to an ancient tomb, he found a six days’ old child in the sarcophagus. The mother could not be found. Tho British Postmaster-General, in pointing out that wireless communication by the R 33 was seriously impeded by oscillation from wireless receiving sets, has issued a warning that the consequences to aircraft in danger might bo most serious. He warns receivers that to use reaction to such an extent contravenes the conditions of tlieir licenses. The accused, Ernest Rhodes, was remanded on tho charge of murdering Miss Blackwaller, a girl of 16, whose throat was cut near her home in London. Speaking hysterically in the witness box, Rhodes’s sister said that lie had received an injury to his head in infancy, which had never properly closed. . . With a view to ousting British coal from Hamburg and the Baltic coast, the German Government has arranged a rebate of 30 per cent, on railway freight on coal from the Ruhr mines to seaports.