TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17418, 31 March 1922, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Local and General The foundation stone of tlhfl Banss Peninsula wax memorial was laid yes-i-onlay by his Excellency tho Go.ernorCenoral, on the occasion of his first visit to Akaroa. A meeting of dairy farmers at Ohoka last night approved of a scheme by which it was suggested that tho testing of butter-fat at factories should be done by Government officials. The New Zealand Rugby Union is endeavouring to arrange for the visit or tho French team on a curtailed programme of matches". The Metliven and Temuka A. and P. Shows were held yesterday. Satisfactory entries have been received for the Canterbury Fir© Brigades' Demonstration on Easter Monday. Mr J. S. Jresep, vice-chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, is going to England on business of tho Board. Foreign. A great crowd at Hamburg witnessed the departure of the world's biggest ship, the Majestic, which is now owned by tho White Star Line. M. Miliukoff, leader of tho Russian Cadet Party, was shot dead on tho platform of a hall in Berlin by two Russian Monarchists. M. Nabokoff was shot while trying to save Miliukoff, and six others were wounded. The Council of the League of Red Cross Societies is removing its (headquarters from Geneva to Paris. It is reported that several German political parties support the Stinnea proposal to make over to the Allies 30 per cent, of the shares of all financial, commercial, and industrial undertakings in Germany in full settlement of reparations. . The Conference attended by delegates of the British, Ulster, and Free State Governments has opened in London to consider the problems that have arisen in Ireland. Lord Carson specially attended the House of Lords and made a personal statement in reply to Lord Birkenhead's criticisms. An interesting discussion on the propriety' of Law Lords participar ting in political debates followed. Tho conference of delegates _of the Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational Churches in Sydney adopted important resolutions dealing with tho question of reunion, and appointed a committee to consider and recommend definite schemes of cooperation. The United States Senate ratified the Naval Limitation Treaty by 74 votes to one. and the Submarine and Poison Gas Agreements unanimously. The American House of Representatives passed the Army Appropriation Bill, providing for reductions in expenditure and personnel. In the House of Commons it was announced that Mr Lloyd George would ask for a vote of confidence in the j Government in regard to its policy at tho Genoa Conference. The Labour Party 'tabled a no-confidence amendment. It is reported that seriouß trouble has arisen in the Maritime Province of Siberia, where tho "Reds,", pursuing the "Whites," dame into conflict with Japanese troops. , ' Mount Etna, in Sicily, is in violent eruption. Nine masked men invaded the mansion of a multi-millionaire in Chicago . and stole £IO,OOO worth of jewellery and much other booty. An American oculist, head of the Near East Medical Relief Association, says trachoma has become epidemic in Armenia, . where the population is threatened with hlindnesß. A further attempt is being made to arrange peace in the engineering trade in Britain. . . Several attacks have been made on goods trains carrying goods from Belfast southwards. j