AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1920, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(Reuter's Telegram.) GERMAN FEEIGHT?Efift. ' NEW YORK, Nov. 4. The steamer Sophia • Richmers, the first German freighter to American waters since the declaration of war has arrived at New York. AMERICAN POLITICS. (Received this day at 8 a.fn.) WASHINGTON,; Nov. 4. The view is expressed in diplomatic circles that the defeat of the League of Nations would have a profound effect on foreign chancellories and that one result would probably be. the removal of any doubt concerning the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. A referendum to legalise the sale'of light wines and beefr was carried throughout the state by small majority

PRICKLY PEAR ENEMIES. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORiK, Nov. 4. The Australian Press Association interviewed professor Johnston who stated after irivetigation in United States and Mexico he found the following prickly pear enemies, existed—A fungus named Gloesporium ;• insects including boring larvae or moths called militaria and to a less extent the boring beetle; also on two forms of wild cochinial whose activities are largely controlled by parasitic insects'. There is also a certain kind of plant bug whose attacks interfere with the growth of the prickly pear.