TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17401, 11 March 1922, Page 10

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

. > Local and General. Tho inter-island cricket match was commenced at Lancaster Park yesterday afternoon. The southerners batted ii;st and gavo a disappointing display, bung all out for IG9. When stumps v,ere drawn North Is.'and had scored 11 without tho loss of a wicket. The increase in Government valuations of city property in Auckland is calling forth vigorous protests from owners. The results of tlio merino wool, the Corriedale wool and mutton, and the ha f- 1 red wool and mutton competitions at thr> Canterbury A. and P. Association's 1921 Metropolitan Show are announced. A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Sydney Haro*J Cumin ins, land salesman, held yesterday, was adjourned to allow the Official to obtain legal advice as to tho va'idity of a pecurity given by hill of sale over debtor's furniture. The "Wellington Racing Ch>b is issuing debentures for £50.000. The money if-, to be spent On additions to tho buildings at Trentham and improvements to the course.

At the Wellington wool sale yesterday prices were on a par with those ruling Inst month, any change being in sellers' favour. Foreign. I Serious allegations were made by the prosecutor at Bow street Police Court in stating his case against Mr Horatio B-)ttoni!ey, M.P. ; who is charged with converting to his own use £SOOO of the funds of the Victory Bonds Club. A further conference of the parties to the engineering trade dispute in B'itain has been arranged., and there is a ho;;e that tho lock-out threatened for to-day may be averted. The Federal Cabinet decided that it would not allow the Australian Seamen's Union to take control of the Commonwealth Line out of the hands of the management. It is understood that Cabinet is reconsidering the offer of Lord Inchcape to purchase the line. In the House of Commons the Colonial Secretary /Mr Winston Churchill) reviewed conditions in Mesopotamia and Palestine.

Some interesting evidence wag given at tlie trial of E. T. Hoolejr and others air the Old Bailey, ori charges of conspiracy to defraud in oonnexion with the Jubilee Cotton Mills, Ltd., at OMham. .

Cape Town messages report a Yery Bprious Btate of affairs on the Eand, where r» mail train was derailed. The •po3ii icn is pjjive m Johannesburg. Ill© Prime Minister in Parliament said tl'e Government could not continue its policy of forbearance. A number of the New York newspapers strongly criticise Mr Hughes, Secretary of State, for the tone of his rofusal of the invitation to the United States to attend the Genoa Conference. Sir Ross Smith expects to start on his flight round the world in April. Street sniping in Belfastyon Thursday caused a number of casualties. . • Senators Robinson and Reed, both Democrats, strongly attacked the Pacific Treaty in the Senate. | The Australian 'Department announces the establishment of. communication with the New Zealand radio telephone. ■.'Mr E. S. _ Montagu, Secretary of State for India, has resigned. In a letter to Mr Lloyd George he says he felt justified in publishing the Government of India's despatch urging a revision of the Treaty of Sevres. Mr Llovd George in a strong reply, says Mr Montagu's action was "totally incompatible with the collective repsonsibility of Cabinet to the Sovereign and Parliament?' and that "after what has occurred we cannot usofully co-operate in the same Cabinet." \ The dispute in the Union liner Maieno is still unsettled, and: there is Small hope of the ship leaving Sydney this week. ' v The Tokyo correspondent of the "Chicago Tribune" says tha,t when Mrs Sanger reaches Yokohama she will _be met by the police with a notification, that ene oan land on'y if she refrain* from speaking or .flistribntinjr leaflets on: the subject of birth control.