London, May 3.
Clipping 32 hours and 55 minutes! from the record for 9 soto fight from. Australia to England, the Australian. airman, Mr. HI. F. Broadbent, arrived at Lympne. in Kent, at 640—this evening, British standard time.
The aviator, who had left Darwin last Tuesday, took six days, ten hours and 85 minutes for his journey.
'The previous record, seven days nineteen hours and fifty' minutes, was established in 1935 by Mr. Ht. Brook, who is now engaged in an attempt to lower the mark for a fight' irom the Cape to England—Reuter.
The estate of the poet, dramatist and actor, John Drinkwater, who died fat the end of March, has been proved at £1,577,
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