TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18404, 10 June 1925, Page 8

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

s LOCAL AND GENERAL. Mackenzie Country. The climatic conditions in tho Mackenzie Country since tho early days of settlement are dealt' with in a special articlo by Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P. Canterbury's Court at Dunedin Exhibition. i Arrangements for exhibits in the \ Canterbury Court at tho New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition were discussed by tho Canterbury Provincial Committee. "Letters to, tho Editor. Letters to the Editor, will bo found on page !>. ''Prime Canterbury" at the Dunedia Exhibition. The Canterbury Provincial Committee of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition has decided to make a ■ proposition to the Exhibition -»: authorities and tho Meat Board regarding a display of "Prime Can- '." terbury" lamb at tho Exhibition. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Train Disaster. Nine were killed and 40 injured in the worst disaster in the history, of the Queensland railways. Position in China. Shanghai is quiet, but there has been fighting between Government gunboats und tho Yunnanese rebels at Canton. ' . Grain Store Destroyed. Damage estimated at £IOO,OOO was done by a fire which destroyed tho railway grain store at Warrnambool. Biff Menace. French reports state that Abd-el-Krim hopes, if he is successful in Morocco, to raise all Mohammedan Africa. Security Pact. Mr Austen Chamberlain has confirmed the report of an Allied agreement as to the terms of tho Security; Pact. The guarantee is limited to tho West. ';■.,. Seamen itefuse Call. •;''.'•'"" Members of the Australian Seamen's Union refußod the first call since deregistration to work, ships with black cargo; ;