TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18150, 13 August 1924, Page 8

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. She Moratorium. The motion for the second reading of The Moratorium Bill was debated in the House of Representatives last night. Bacing and Trotting. Bacing and trotting items will be found on pages 12 and 13. Letters to the Editor. Letters to the Editor will be found on page 11. Drainage Works and Co-operative Contracts. A meeting of workers interested in undertaking co-cperative contracts i in connexion with the drainage exi fr-nsion scheme decided that tho : special conditions offered by the ' Drainage Board could not be seriously entertained. Willingness to I continue the discission, if the Board ! offered more liberal conditions, was | expressed. 1 Ex-Servicemen's Farewell to Governor- ! General. ' His Excellency the Governor-General f was entertained at a farewell smoke I concert last night by ex-servicemen j of H.M. Forces. I BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

! European Settlement. i Germany has signed a preliminary \ agreement' to put the Dawes plan I into execution, and France is ready I to withdraw her troops from the j Ruhr a year later. Allied curren- ! cies have jumped forward on the | . New York exchange. f Prince of Wales.

On his forthcoming visit to the United i States, the Prince of Wales will \ not travel incognito, but with hi.i j highest rank, as a mark of courtesy t to the American nation.

Battle of Jutland. ! Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, def endI ing the British tactics at Jutland. i says that Admiral of the Fleet Lord ; Jellicoe "made" the Fleet and was the inspiration of the Navy. ,

ZBUnigration. All accommodation on immigrant ships sailing from Britain for New Zealand has been booked up till the end of.October.

Sculling Bace. On the Brisbane River, Paddon retained the world's sculling championship, 4 beating Felton by; eight lengths.

Items. ' V • Hopes of the American world fliers ■ . beings able to finish their, journey • are dwindling. ■;■ ■■* ■•■ Since leaving Port Darwin, the • vesV sel with-the Douglas > Mawson -expedition aboard has, made- about a knot an hour in Smooth water. \_