NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 121, 12 August 1927, Page 1

NEWS BREVITIES

Native Rates.— lt is stated that £4,000 is owing in native rates to the Rotorua County Council. Berne Bomb Outrage. —A bomb exploded in Berne on Thursday. It wrecked a tramway station and injured 15 persons, including two women.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. Fire at Silverdale. —A six-roomed house belonging to Mr. W. Green, of Silverdale, was burnt down early on Tuesday morning, nearly all its contents being destroyed. The owner’s loss is considerable. Body in Harbour. —The body of John O’Kar.e, aged 5?, was found in the harbour at Wellington near the Clyde Quay Baths, just after 8 a.m. yesterday. He was missing on Wednesday evening.— Press Assn. Austrian Alpinist Killed. —L>r. Otto Sachs, a specialist in venereal diseases, was killed through a fall when ho was climbing the Finstermunz, a narrow pass in the Tyrolese Alps, in Austria.— A. and N.Z. Railway Employee Injured. —A railway employee, Mr. J. McDowell, of Great South Road, Otahuliu, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from slight head injuries. He is progressing favourably. Otahuhu School. —The secretary of tH a buhu School Committee has received the following telegi’am from ,• E. D. McLennan, M.P.: “I am Pleased to advise that the Hon. Minister of Education has approved of the on an additional room at the Otahuhu school.” Empire Broadcasting. —The Post Office on Wednesday issued its official sanction to Mr. Marcuse to permit him o provide broadcasting to the Empire or six months. The broadcast will oegln on September I.—A. and N.Z.Sun. Ae ron au ti ca | Research. —With a view fir* o S r C *° verini : a mea ns of preventing .® r aerial disasters, the British n ™ lt ee of Aeronautical Research anri P ° S + es to utilise the cinematograph crn _v t 0 arr ange for experimental crashes.-—A. and N.Z. Seaplane Race. —The machines for tv! en tered for the race of tv!i e Schneider Cup are three racers la cchi type. It is unofficially tain*J e< * tilat tllese planes have athon*. • a ® peed of over 28D miles an " our in their trials—A. and N.Z. he?* n ' r ,° us ® ec luests.—Among a numWh,?.- b t quests b y the late Mr. A. IT. fttsmVfr . am ' a Promising Queensland ... ralist and racehorse-owner, there Chit*. C i? e £IOO,OOO to the Geelong 1 ot England Grammar Sdhool. tr-!?«! queathed aII Ins racehorses to his Tur/pi £2.000 to the Queensland ana « *° er ect a club for jockeys d apprentices.—A. and N.Z.