TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18148, 11 August 1924, Page 8

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

- LOCAL AND GENERAL. Fats of the Ripple. There sire evidences uu-.i- live Ilipplo foundered or was wreekc-d, north of Cane' Palliser on Thur:;dry .uiorning. Football. Pisnedir! wns tho fesne of the principal football 'inatch.es on Saturday, when Canterbury played Otago at Dunedin and the English League *,o3iii met Nw Zealand in the Third Test. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Empire. Canada is ready to appoint delegates j • fo a conference in London in October io find a basis for future , discussions on the 'foreign policy of the Empire. J Jetland Battle. Answering von Behcet, Lord Jellicoe denies that there Was fl&y hesitation in commencing action st JutJ:md. She Davis On p. In the Davis Cup ties, Australia defeated Mexico, and Japan, triumphed over Canada. Fewer Marriages. j The marriageo in Great Britain ior the first quarter of 1924 were 12,572 fewer than in the corresponding quarter of last year. The Atom. Jn an address at Toronto, Sir Ernest Rutherford said the key to science was hidden in the arrangement of the minute core of the atom. Science Congress. At the meeting of the British. Association for the Advancement of Science, some valuable discoveries made during the year were announced. World Flight. There is a possibility of the warships guarding the line of the American world-fliers being <\Vithdrawn.