TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18216, 29 October 1924, Page 8

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Gaming Bill. ■ The greater part of yesterday's sitting of the House of Representatives was occupied with the third reading debate on the Gaming liill. Letters to the Editor. Letters to the Editor will bo found on page 11. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Election. Polling takes place to-day. Lloyd's insurance rate against the risk of a Conservative majority has advanced 10 per cent. Bnssian Latter. The authenticity nf the Zinovieff letter is still a matter of argument. At Cardiff Mr Mac Donald explained his side of the affair. Mr de Valera. A force of 2.50 police was in attendance at the re-arrest of Mr de Valera. The crowd in Belfast "booed' 'him, and only a 6troug escort prevented the prisoner being mobbed. Men in Boxes. The police at New York seized three par-king-eases just unloaded from a Singapore steamer. They wore found to contain three emaciated Chinese coolies, one of whom has since died of starvation. Unrest in Bengal. British troops in full war kit marched through the native quarter of. Calcutta, as a precaution against any revolutionary movement. Tea Dearer. The wholesale prii.-e of tea has been advanced twopence a pound in Sydney. Items. It is alleged that a high school of crime exists in Victorian gaols. Australia is ordering two modern submarines. The Permanent Mandates Commission is fully satisfied with New Zealand's administration of Western Samoa. !

A. M. HESTER, Manager.