NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wairarapa Age, 5 February 1927, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Despite the report from America that he will be refused admission, to Cuba because he is a deportee, Ricciotti Garibaldi (a London cablegram states) sailed from Liverpool. He ridiculed the suggestion that he was a Fascist agent-provocateur. In view of the decision of the French Court, he has surrendered all his French decorations. His brothers did likewise.

An Adelaide message states that subject to negotiations now being conducted on the question of salary, E. P. Hendren, of Middlesex, will be appointed cricket ceach by the South Australian Cricket Association. No trouble is anticipated over salary. Messrs Marconi begin next week an exhaustive testing of the Australian beam system. The British Post Office will not participate till the Marconi Company advises them that a stage has been reached at which a thorough offie cial test can be undertaken.

Tho Philippine constabulary removed 35 bodies from the recent battle with the Moros, following the short-lived Moro rebellion in Sulu. They discovered that six of the bodies were those of Mohammedan women, who apparently foi(]ht with tho men, defending a stronghold which was ultimately destroyed by mortar fire. Tho Princess Tarhata and her husband Datua Tasil both eluded capture.

Bush fires are again raging near Melbourne, a cablegram states. Swept along by furious winds, a fire near Heidelburg destroyed much valuable grassland. The fire-fighters were unable to halt the flames and could only direct them on to valueless land, where they eventually spent themselves. In Upper Maffra, fires are blazing fiercely, but hundreds of firefighters have the position well in hand.

The West Australian Cabinet has fixed the date of the State elections at March 26.

The Nationalist and Farmers’ Union Parties of Victoria, at present comprising tho composite Government, have decided to appeal to the electors at tho forthcoming State elections as separate entities.

The claim of the Christchurch family Tab ley to estates valued at £20,000,000 in Lancashire, a Melbourne message states, has found a rival claimant in the person of Mrs. Collins, of Balaclava, who states that she and eight others of the Tabley family are greatgrandchildren of John Tabley, original owner of the estates.