TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18135, 26 July 1924, Page 12

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENE&AL. Jkaka Coleridge Duplication Scbams. A "Press" reporter who paid a visit of inspection yesterday to Lake Coleridge ascertained that satisfactory progress is being made with the work of duplicating the present hydro-electricity scheme. School Football. JThe annual matehes between the first and second fifteens of Waitafei and Christchurch Boys' High Schools were played yesterday at Lancaster . Park. In the senior game the Christchurch team was successful t by 12 points to 3, and the junior game was won by Waitaki by 19 points to 9. —Page 15. yjsit of Light Cruiser Squadron. Tho final meeting of the General Committee set up in connexion with the visit of the Light Cruiser Squadron has approved of the audited balance-sheet. —Page 4. Hie Dominion's Education System. Arrangements have been completed for the conference on education promoted by the W.E.A, and the Canterbury section of the N.Z.EX, which is to open on August 2nd. letters to the Editor. Letters to the Editor will be found on Page 13. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Jfeval Eevisw, The King will review the ships of the Grand Fleet at Spithead today. One hundred and ninety»six . warships are assembled, in lines 10 miles long. Xxlfh Winteter. TIIO pcaition and standing of the, Irish Minister to be appointed to Washington is made clear in a message published this morning. Aspire Wireless. Canada has already arranged for the erection of an Eastern and a Western station as Jinks in the Empire wireless ehain. floods to India. The most disastrous floods in the history of India are reported from' the south. There have been heavy losses of life and property. I#nden Conference. It is agreed that at the moment the Conference has reached a deadlock, but British and Ifreneb opinion i alike is hopefuL ! Boxing. Tunney beat Carpentier cm a technical knock-out, retaining American light-heavy title. Xteofc An Empire commercial travellers' conference is meeting in London. fhe remains of a dinosaur have been 1 discovered ia India.