TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17409, 21 March 1922, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Local and General Mr' T>ajvid Jones will again contest the Kaiapoi seat in the Reform Party's interest. •The Council of Christian Congregations last night passed a strongly worded resolution concerning the speech of Dr. Liston, coadjutor Bishop of Auckland, on St. Patrick's night, concerning the Irish Treaty. , A brutal assault on an Acclimatisation Society's ranger is reported from Te Kuiti. Comprehensive reports on the working of the port were submitted at the annual meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board held yesterday. At Gisborne yesterday, Rutene Topi, was acquitted of the murder of a hawker named Paul Zambukka at the Mot-u river on November 4th. The snorts of coursing and the shoots ing of pigeon 3 from traps were condemned in an address given last night bv the Rev. W. Saunders, of Dunedin, to the Council of Christian Congregations. Foreign. Gandhi pleaded guiltv to a charge of sedition, and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. General Smuts has appealed to -the public to raise a great fund for the relief of distress on the Rand and has issued an earnest appeal to the employer** to err on tho side of generosity m re-emploving men. The Chamber of Mines has voted £20,000 to the relief fund. In a letter to Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, Field-Marshal Sir Henry AVilson, Unionist M.P. for North Down makes a violent attack on Mr LloydGeorge, whom he blames for the state of affairs existing in Ireland.. , There was a sanguinary week-end in flelfast with many outrages, 'resulting in six persons being killed and a score wounded. at Killarney, Mr de Valera "forecasted and pleaded for civil war" in Ireland. There have been many disloyal demonstration? in Cairo, but the native .-oldierv haive the situation in hand. Tt "s stated that 50,000,000 gold marks, almost the whole reserve of the fleichsbflnk'will he shipped 'O England as security in financing German purchases of foodstuffs and raw materials.