TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17420, 3 April 1922, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Local and General. It is Teported in Wellington that the Government propose to appoint, a Railway Advisory Board composed of business men. Tho local cricket season was brought to a close 09 Saturday. West Christchurch Club won tho senior championship by the narrow margin of one point over Riccarton. A 6uncessful beginning in the work oi organising tho Forcsty J/.'ague's campaign has been made at Hokitika. A big industrial dispute pending is that affecting the cooks and stewards in tho employ of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. The claims of the Federated Cooks- and Stewards' Union for increases in wages and alterations in working conditions were recently published. Counter-projw^ai l ' have now been filed by the Union Steam Ship Company, which proposes a reduction on tho present rates of pay. Foreign. Tho ox-Emperor Karl of Austria is dead. Cambridge won the University boatrace, beating Oxford by tliree and a half lengths. The King and Queen intend to inspect the war cemeteries in Belgium and Franco next month. Professor Atkinson, of Melbourne University, gives an .appalling account of the conditions in the famine regions of Russia. Tho revenue of the United Kingdom for the year ending March 31st shows a substantial surplus. There is no change in the party position in connexion with the recent general election in Now South W r ales. Two Tsarist officers have been arrested for the murder of M.~ MiliukofF. Russia is to be represented by some of her best diplomats at the Genoa Conference. The resignation of tho Viceroy of India is denied. The Prince of Wales received an enthusiastic welcome at Singapore. An Indian' legislator niake9 a bitter complaint about sensational items . being sent from India to the English Press by adventurous correspondents. Japan and China, haive successfully concluded negotiations for the return of Shantung. Half a million men are affected by the American miners' strike wliidh began on Saturday. The Irish agreement is joyfully hailed in Dublin and Belfast. The League of Nations has appointed an expert committee to consider the problem of double taxation. Greece will not reply to the Allies' proposal for «in armistice in the Near East until Kemal Pasha has sent his answer. , Serious allegations against Mr Lloyd George were made at a secret sitting of the French Senate.