TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17488, 23 June 1922, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Drainage Bill. Mr Walter Hill, chairman of the Christchurch Drainage Board, ; ; full exposition of the new l>nnna.go Bill, and the intentions ol the Board in the matter of the esten6ions and the loan, before the General Committee of the Chnstchurcli Cuizens' and Ratepayers' Association. Slaughtermen's Strike. All the North Canterbwy freezing works were in operation yesterday, and labour ie offering in .1 satisfactory quantity. Shearing Rates. Die rates offered by \\w employers for shearing and shed work nest season •a-erc rejected yesterday by the Shearers' Union, who declined to state what their demands were. FOREIGN. Free State Elections. Of lIS members elected. 85 uvc proTreaty and 33 anti-Treaty. Palestine Mandate. In the House of Lords a motion by Lord Islington that the mandate over Palestine was not acceptable to Britain because 90 per cent, of The people in Palestine were nonZionists was carried. Russian Problem. it is reported that the Russian delegates to The Hague are preparing a statement of the economic situation in Russia, and a. list of the trade and trade concessions they sire prepared to offer to Western enterprise. American Coal Strike. After a figkc lasting four hours, a mine in Illinois which was being worked by non-union labour waa surrendered to a. large force of strikers who stormed the stockade. Chemical Warfare. Marshal Foch, in a preface to the French translation of Major* Lefebre's book on cliemical warfare, expresses the opinion that future wars will be largely decided by chemical strategy. Pan-Paciiic Scientific Congress. The Federal Cabinet has agreed to a proposal for the holding of the pan-Pacific Science Conference in Australia next year. Military Retrenchment. Under tho military • retrenchment scheme, the Commonwealth Government woollen mills at Geelong are to bo sold. Australian Public Services. A member of the Federal House of Representatives, referring to the over-growing army of Civil servants, there was one Government employee to every six of Australia's adult male population. ,