TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17813, 12 July 1923, Page 8

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. JJrajnfi,,''! Pol! To-day. ,„,I; r.-.l er.- o".i T-hu pio- -■ (•; Viureh Drainage fu'.',:,i •■- l*'" !jih a .-si we rage system .n - , ; r<-a r urroumling the pre !' . ■ i; i area, will be taken hours, 9 a.m. to 1 • thiriv-sis poiiing boot I--, . sewerage are:: -. ..j.-', j)"-!';ite.= 'ho City• Ad diiigt-on M? rfcet. e... ; ,t was a particular:" kc+r -m-.: v.-sterday f'-r fat. sheep, the avct-ri.-e being from 3s to 4s per :S':rA. Fat entile were easier by r.er head on an average. Tin-. *>!nriiid tor breeding ewes and i:oggets was keen. Price of Wheat. -\ conference of those interested in ;j, ( . farming industry yesterday , arried a motion that it was -1,, opinion that farmers conk! not f-" : induced to grow wheat at than fis per The r."-i»ort of tho Conference will be found on our commercial page. 4feat Producers' Board. .A conference of farmers and sheepowners yesterday carried a motion in favour of tho Meat Control Board being returned as at present instituted. FOREIGN. The Reparation Problem. I: is reported that the British Prime Minister in his coming statement, will leave the door open for France to range herself on tho side of Britain. The London correspondent of a Paris paper says Britain has abandoned the idea of further negotiations with Trance, and i:j now engaged in drawing up >i separate answer to Germany. Turkish Peace Agreement. Messages from Lausanne give the main points of the peace settlement, with Turkey. jfte Imperial Conference. In the Bouse of Commons the Prime Minister said ho did not intend prior to the Imperial Conforenca to state the policy of thß Government on tho matterß to be discussed. British Dockers' Strike. The dockers have resumed wotlc at tho lower rate of pay at Liverpool, Grimsby, and HulL The London men are still out. Japan and America. It is reported that a plan haa been propounded in Tokyo for a joint commission to investigate the question of Japanese in the United States. Abdication of a Rajah. The Maharajah of Nabha has abdicated. It is reported that if ho had not done so he would have been deposed.