TODAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17936, 3 December 1923, Page 8

TODAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Lake Coleridge Power Station Extension. Preparatory work at Lak© Coleridge in connexion with the extension of the power station (increasing the generating capacity to 27, (XX) k.',v.) is to be put in hand forthwith. Sanders Cup. Sanders Cup final races were held on Saturday at Lytteltoh, Auckland and Dunedin. l J 3ge 14. Letters to tho Editor. Letters to the Editor will be found ou page 11. FOREIGN. v. Election Struggle. The storm centre of the British political situation is developing in the north, where the vote of tne huge artisan population is expected to Bwaj tho balance. Even the experts are not now venturing to predict tho result. Germany. Dr. Marx has formed a Cabinet from members of the G&ntre Party, I>r. Stresemann accepting office. Tho Reichstag is to iheet iiiirtifiji;u,cly. France protests that the rumour regarding the f,loiv disarmament of Germany had no official origin. American Prohibition. An effort is likely to 'bo mad© to amend tho Volstead Act this session of Congress, by permitting tin- sale of beverages containing '2.76 per cent, of alcohol'—beverages which would, it is claimed, bo non-intoxicating. Tho move is coming from the supporters of Prohibition. Latin Union. " Italy .and Spain are negotiating for economic, diplomatic and strategical conventions, with a -view to achioving tho closer union of all Latin peoples. The Vatican has let it bo understood that the visit to Rome of the King of Spain is not to l>e interpreted as a surrender of his Holmess's dreams of recovering temporal power for the Papacy. Disastrous Floods. Floods on the middle course of the Nile have Bwept villages away and rendered hundreds of natives homeless. The Government of Egypt is sending succour. America's Foreign Policy. It is 100 years sinoe the Monro© Doctrine was enunciated before tho United States Congress. At the centenary celebrations, Mr C. E. Hughes claimed that America always has abided and abides-still by the principles there laid down. Items. British Columbia refuses enfranchisement to Hindus. The political branch of the non-co-operation movement achieved marked success in tho election for the Bengal Council. The next Australian Parliament is ta meet at Canberra.