TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17938, 5 December 1923, Page 8

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Price of Wheat. A conference between whcat.grower3 and flourmillers failed to arrive At a decision regarding the price of the coming harvest's wheat. The conference is to rjpume in two or three days. Details will be found •n our commercial page—page 10. Local Body Olorka and Arbitration Court Award. The Coutfc of Arbitration, in a judgment delivered by Mr Justice Frazer, has decided that the Court has no jurisdiction to make an award covering thf, clerical staffs 6f the Christehurch City Council and other local bodies in and about Christehurch. Letters to the Editor. Letters to the Editor will be found on page 9. FOREIGN. Consumption Cure. New Zealand is proposing to finance Dr. Spahlinger, of Geneva, in the preparation of hig anti-tubercular serum. The cost for one year will be £36,000. A public appeal is being made for £56,000 —half the amount necessary to secure for tho Dominion a practical monopoly of the output of serum until the tnd of 1926. Tho Election. In teres*; in the political situation, in XSritain is deepening. While theatres and picture shows are comparativrly empty, thousands stand in queues in the rain to hear popular potiticans speak. "The Times" pui.iishes an estimate of probable party strength i;i the new House, giving the Conservatives an absolute majority. Colliery Accident. Seven are dead and 36 injured as the result of a coal-mining disaster near Sheffield. Twenty tubs, loaded with men, were being drawn up a steep incline when the rope snappod. items. In the Scottish licensing poll, Edinburgh stays "wet." The Greeks are calling to Venizelos to come back home and help them set |hoir house in order. Marconi says that his new system of directional wireless requires only a fraction of the energy hitherto used.