TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17937, 4 December 1923, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Now Penny Stamp. Tiir Council of tho Canterbury Chamber of Commerce last night carried a resolution asking the Government immediately to withdraw the new uenny universal postage stamp, on the ground that its design constituted a very poor advertisement both to the Government and the Dominion. letters to the Editor. Letters to the Editor will bo found oil pago 13. Garden Notes. f-rmi.-p. Xot.cs will bo found on pai:e 10. FOREIGN. Australian Tragedies. Arrests have been made, and charges of murder brought, in respect of two Au: trulhui tragedies, in which I.nth a ii ,i r. -Mid a woman were l\j; j 111 i i;iri!' throat.9 Ctlt. A United Front. For t hf> h.>; in ten months tjie ii'■ ji:! i:11 i<!ns I 'ciaiinssion iias come 10 ti i:n;.iiii;.■ <us lier'.sion, and J.'aris nfi'ii ui i s rejoice that tho En--11 !,!!■' is again one. Tho hopo is ex preyed that. An: erica may yot join iii ti.o setting up of the export committees. British Fdection. Tho final drive has begun, and the (■aiap'iign is being styled tho most st re,-!lions iii modern times. The •vomen'h vote seems an unknown I'm:!or, and both Liberals and Con--ervatives are paying earnest i-oiii'L at the feet of the fair elector. There v.-aa a disorderly scone and some rather disloyal talk at a Communists' Sunday meeting at Hattcrsea. Mr Ma.ssey, The I,'riino Minister is among his own folk in Ulster. Everywhere he is being toasted and cheered as a groat Imperialist. Belfast students, masquerading as "Maoris," installed Mr Massey a3 "Big Chief." 710 spent Sunday <imid scenes of his boyhood. Tho Deadly Motor. in the United States last year over 11,000 persons wore killed in motor accidents, French Anarchy. Paris has been stirred by the strango death of tho son of a prominent nationalist. Tho boy had joined tho anarchists, but tho father suspects that thoy wero rosponsiblo for hie sou's death. Items. Tho King of Spain ppeaks of war. A charge of manslaughter of their son has been brought against two English parents of the sect of "Peculiar People." Six hundred are mijsing as a result of the bursting of an Italian dam. A Bndapest husband attempted to effect a solution of the eternal triangle —in tho case of his wife and her love.r —by a bomb. Of the three, only the lover escaped. Uermany is reported to bo negotiating for the purchase of territory in Dutch New Guinea.