TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17419, 1 April 1922, Page 10

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Local and' General. The New Zealand Government is going on the London market in a lew weeks for a loan at o or 5i per cent. At the Dunedin wool sale yesterday, rrices were up Id and higher on the February auction. Armour and Co. of Australasia, Ltd., arvj to be allowed to commence business in Not Zealand under control of the Meat Producers' Export Board, the conditions to be imposed being of such .1 nature as to ensure effective and thorough control in the full interests of producers. It is understood that a. further advance of 2d per lb will take place in the price of butter in Christchurch as from to-day. The retail coat will be Is 8d per lb. At a meeting of wheat-growere, held in Ashburton yesterday, it was decided to ask the Government to consider t3io advisability of guaranteeing a minimum price of not less than the cost price for a period of years. •Nominations of candidates for seats on school committees in the Chrisbcliurch and Timaru urban areas, and ako in school districts where the, average attendance last year exceeded 120, close next Wednesday. The report of the Christchurdh Boy Scouts' Local Association records considerable progre69 during last year, the first year of the existence. Foreign. At the East Leicester by-election, the Labour candidate secured a large majority, easily defeating the CoalitionLiberal .and Independent-Liberal candidates. Complaints have been made of the treatment of Australasian tive6 in London by oertain officials in the Colonial Office. Sir James Allen says the present position is not satisfactory. Sir James Allen, High Commissioner for New Zealand, says undesirable people have not been sent to New Zealand t/'hrougb. his office. The medical examination is being made more rigid. A remarkable drop in the cost of houses in Britain is announced. The Finance Committee of the United States Senate has decided on a tariff of 30 cents a bushel on wheat. , The Commonwealth Government has underwritten a loan of £5,000,000 in London.' Another case of plague is reported in Sydney. A Portuguese seaplane has left Ldsbon on a flight to Rio de Janeiro. Chinese brigands, led by a member of the former royal house of Burma, crossed t(he border of Upper Burma, burned a missionary's house and a native village, and murdered the villagers. They were dispersed with heavy losses by military police, who captured the leader.

The conference of delegates representing the British, Free State and Ulster Governments hare signed an agreement declaring peace in Ireland as from Thursday, and pledging the respective Governments to co-operate in ervery way with a view to the restoration of peace in the unsettled districts. Armed men raided the offices of the "Freeman's Journal" in Dublin and wrecked the plant. In the interest of economy the King has consented to the paying off of the Royal yacht Alexandria. The promoters of the airship service scheme want annual subsidies of £90,000 from the Imperial Government and £40,000 each from India and Australia. ( _ The French: Cabinet has decided that its delegates will oppose the introduction, at the Onoa Conference, of questions such as German reparations and the recognition of the Russian Soviet Government: In the House of Commons Mr Asquitli has tabled an amendment declining to express confidence in the Government in regard to the Genoa Conference. The ex-Emperor Karl of Austria, is reported to be dying at Madeira. It is rumoured in London that Lord Reading, Viceroy of India, has resigned. Replying to the High Commissioner Of Australia at a dinner in London, the head of a big manufacturing _ firm strongly condemned labour conditions in ' ihe Commonwealth.