NEWS BY MAIL.
* WHISKY QUEUES AFLOAT. NEW YORK, July 7. Since the United States went “dry" by Constitutional amendment, the liners to Cuba have been crowded as well as those to Europe. In every vessel the bar steward is overworked. One large British liner reported the other day that its bar receipts on one crossing were £I,OO0 —a record. Ships’ officers say that men who ten veiled “dry" before now take a drink while travellers who took a drink in the old days now take three or four” This they describe as the psychology of Prohibition." Long before the bar opens there is a. line waiting. Some passengers make the smoke room their headquarters during the voyage, lest they mins soemthing .
"WATERLESS MADRID. MADRID, July 3. For throe days Madrid has been practically without water ,a. subsidence having occurred in the roof of the tunnel of the Canal de Lozova, the city’s chief water supply. The tunnel is blocked at a point 10 miles from Madrid, 120 feet below the ground. Repairs will be difficult, but they are promised within a few days. Drinking water is being sold at lOd a glassful, and three-quarters of the city is without baths.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1920, Page 4
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