CABLE MISCELLANY

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12605, 16 November 1926, Page 2

CABLE MISCELLANY

PARRAMATTA MOTOR SMASH THREE MEN LIKELY TO DIE it is not expected that three of the men injured in the motor smash on the Parramatta road, N.S.W., will recover. All of them suffered fractured skulls. The motor-car was travelling at a fast pace near Westmead when it veered to the side of the road, skidding in the dust, and overturned, the men being pinnet underneath. One was dead when released, and the other v died shortly after being admitted to hospital. Only one of the six occupants was practically unhurt. *,a • * Mr Franklin, president of the International Marino 'Company, announces that the White Star Line is arranging with Messrs Hari’and and Wolff to build a liner larger than the Olympic, a » . ® The Reichstag has approved of tho Franco-German provisional trade agreement. • • . « MELANESIA ESTATES CO. It is learned that the paid-up capital of the Melanesia Estates Company definitely includes 35 per cent, of German money. The ‘‘Sunday Express” points out that the German Government is openly encouraging German business men to secure large economio footholds in her lost colonies, and emphasises that the League’s aim is to forbid discrimination against Germans. • * * « The “Echo De Paris” says that the German army manual has been withdrawn. at the request of tho Minister for War. • • * • The Empire Parliamentary delegation on arrival in Perth was given a cordial recepttion by members of the State Parliament and . prominent citizens. • • ■ • m PRAYERS FOR RAIN Owing to the dry conditions*exisiang in Queensland, Dr. Sharpe, the Anglican Archbishop, has appointed . November 21st and 28ito.;as special days for prayers for rain in all churches in the Brisbane diocese. V / • • • • Twelve people were killed by tile explosion of a buried war grenade at Trento, in the Tyrol.