TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17809, 7 July 1923, Page 14

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Special Articles. r The following special "rtWes £« be bv A. H .Grinling; and " ,Virelo=, News," by "Eiectra." Bailway Disaster. The North Island Main Trunk -.•:;• press collided with a big bould'.-r. three carriages being tc cooped, fifteen passengers wore kiile-l anu 30 injured. Imperial Conference, Thfl rebate on the Imperial Conference was continued in the House of Iteprcsentatives last night. Letters to the Editor. Letters to the Editor will be found on page 10. FOREIGN.

Pressure on France. It is believed that M. Poincare will send a written reply to Britain during the week-end. The British Premier's declaration regarding the Allied debts to is regarded as a hardening of tho British attitude on the questions of reparation and war debts. Irish Ti69 State, Mr T. M. Healy, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, said the new order had been definitely established, and Ireland to-day was as tranquil as Britain. Bank Bate. Tho Bank of England rate of discount has been increased to 4 per cent. British Dockers' Strike. There are now fully 40,000 dockers on sf,-ike in Britain, of whom half are iif London. The Union has ordered tho men to return to work by Monday. Divorce Court Beporta. Giving evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, tho King's Proctor said the publication of the reports of divorce cases acted as a deterrent. A great deal of the information on which he acted came from the newspapers. Prayer Book Revision, The House of Laymen when considering . the reviftion of the Ft ayor Book considered a number of proposed alterations in the marriage vows of women, which wore all defeated or withdrawn. Plague In Sydney. A young man died from plague in Sydney.