NEWS IN BRIEF.

Wairarapa Age, 7 February 1927, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Norwegian Government has introduced a Bill providing for a secret ballot for strikes. ?>i. Poinca-e an pounced in the French Chamber of Deputies that the Government has no intention of declaring the legal stabilisation of the franc at present. A Sydney message states that another sensational smash occurred at the Maroubra speedway on Saturday, when a car driven by Fred Barlow, travelling at eighty-five miles an hour, went over the hank and crashed through an electric light pole. Barlow suffered a fractured spine and fractured thigh. His condition is critical. A later message states that Barlow is dead.

The sailing vessel Helen Moore which went ashore in a gale at Queen’s Cliff, Victoria, has been abandoned by the tug which went to her assistance. The tug found the vessel leaking rapidly, and returned with the Helen Moore’s crew. It has not yet been decided whether any attempt will be made to salvage the vessel.

The executive of the Brisbane Trades and Labour Council has decided to suspend its president, Mr. J. C. Valentine, for declining to withdraw from the Federal Government’s industrial inission to America.

The London “Sunday Express” understands that the word “obey” is omitted from the marriage service in the recommended revision of the Prayer Book and that the promise will te only to “love” and “honour.” The * ‘Observer” is informed that the King and Queen are not going to Canada this year, but that the Prince of Wales will go about the beginning of August. The Countess of Shaftesbury, a London cablegram states, made a desperate last hour effort to stop the marriage of her son Lord Ashley to Miss Sylvia Hawkes, a pretty ex-mannequin and musical comedy actress. Leaving the family seat 'at Wimborne, St. Giles, Dorset, at daybreak, she motored to London, just in time to see Miss Hawkes leaving for the church. The Countess did not attend the wedding. The increased tariffs proposed by Australia'and New Zealand on logs are worrying Canadian lumbermen, and British Columbian millers arc enlisting the support of a thousand Western lumber retailers in a movement seeking a Canadian preference over the United States in British countries.

Week-end accidents, a Sydney message states, again exacted a heavy toll of life, six persons being killed and seven seriously injured. Five deaths were due to motors and the other to a level crossing accident.

The Australian industrial mission to America leaves Sydney by the Niagara on Thursday. ' A message from Manila states that Princess Tarahata, leader of the Moro revolt at Jolo, has been captured.