NEWS IN BRIEF

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 30, 8 October 1920, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF

Auckland as been without gas f first time m fifty-five yearg f°r tH» The Broken Provision is made for a tQ v re'°f*n. 59 ^eek. Latest returns show that 13^ , are required to fully man v ' „ factories. 'aland There .were , lease of a four-roomed cotts^ • lington. Mage 111 Wf). Many business firms in grits. urging the early resumption of trad" ^ Russia. The Poles captured practicajto ,, whole of the headquarters staff » , Fourth Red Army. ° Jt An outbreak of riots and strike, . reported in Petrograd owing to the age of food and war weariness. Unprecedented rains have fallen jn Kiwitea country and caused Considerabl! damage to roads and bridges. Lord Haig speaking at Tredegar, a further appeal to Welshmen to redee' the nation's debt to the ex-service men ^ A message from Melbourr.e states that the postal and telegraphic rates f!5Ve been gazetted. Sinn Feiners ambushed a parly o( police. The inspector of police m killed and two constables wounded. It is estimated that the audit of ihe American financial "wizard's" accounts by the Federal auditor will show a deficit of abolit £600,000. Captain Fryatt's ship, ihe Brussels, was sold to Mr T. B. Stott, a Liverpoo! shipowner, at ~ the Baltic Exchange ior £3,100.

The death is announced of Sir Noraian Lockyer, a great astronomer, who made striking discoveries in solar physics and ' astro-chemistry. An aeroplane carrying six passe/igere and mails from Croydon to Paris erashed into some back gardens near ftve a«odrome. The passengers were unhnrt. Active campaigning for and against prohibition in Glasgow is now going on in preparation for the local option polls on November 2. The Auckland Electric Tramways Company's balance sheet sliows a prqiit oi £47,735. A dividend of ls 3d a sliare has been declared, and £9610 carried forward . An oil barge burst into flaines neai Woolwich and, drifting about the rirer, set fire to several barges, a ferry boa, t, a pontoon, and some fire engines. The skipper of .the oil baige is mifising. Ten informations have been laid against four well known warehouses for alleged profiteering in the sale of tweeds. Tlie Crown Solicitor stated that the public would be staggered when they knew all the facts. The Prime Minister states that 7,937 (ierman heavy guns, 35,950 field guns and howitzers, and 2,729,804 small arms had been surrendered or destroyed up ',0 August 5. Air craft surrendered or destroyed number 943. Sinn Fein recruiting has experienced a partial set-back recently, and the ^ ers have therefore initiated a sovt of con scription, warning young farmers that i they fail to enlist they will be barred fro™ sending cattle to the fairs. The Tennessee Senate has voted for ti" amendment of the Constitution proVI for woman suffrage, and the ^ House of the State. is expected 10 for the amendment next week. Tei®e® ^ will have been the 36th State to dec ^ in favour of woman suffrage, and aCC° ingly woman suffrage will beconie law of all the States. Many returned soldiers, pai tiou J troopers of the Mounted Rifles, W1 member Mr W. G. Bradley, whose ^ ^ in Cairo was thrown open to men ? js units quartered in Egypt- ^ra g 0{ visiting Wellington for the PU1P|) ^ giving a number of talks on vi a tera of the day. On account o ^ ^ ficent services rendered by inl ^ troops during the Egyptian canl^eturncd has been described by many ^ ^ ^ men as thb" "soldiers' friend. attractive speaker with a »aPn sonality.