TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18016, 7 March 1924, Page 8

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. World Power Conference. Mr L. BLrks will represent New Zealand at the World Power Conference to be held in England in July. Canterbury College. The new year at. Canterbury College opened yesterday, when there were a large number of now students enrolled. Methodist Conference. The report of yesterday's proceedings :it tho New Zealand Methodist Conference will be found on Page 14. Motoring Pages. Motoring items will be found on Pages 4, 5, and 6. Letters to the Editor. Letters to tho Editor will be found on Page 11. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Singapore. The "Daily Mail" understands that the Admiralty has decided not to proceed with the Singapore base. War Cemeteries. Sir Fabian Ware is particularly impressed with the work accomplish,ed on Gallipoli by the Imperial War Graves Commission. White Australia* Mr W. M. Hughes's first lecture in Canada was a spirited defence of tho White Australia policy. Bum-Banners. Twenty-one ships are lying 12 miles off the American coast with valuable liquor cargoes. Oil Scandals. The American enquiry has degenerated into a bitter party war. The Democrats are seeking to involve tho President. Wrong Diagnosis. A Boston surgeon claims that many faulty diagnoses are made in the United States by duly qualified medical mon, whose efficiency he calls into questionItems. A strike has brought all building to a standstill in Adelaide. It is reported that the Shah of Persia has been deposed. An Englishman recently took his first bath for 40 years—it killed him.