AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION
v AMERICAN HOUSES CONFER. WASHINGTON, June, 16. The House and Senate conferred on the Naval Bill but broke up in complete disagreement, later withdrawing from the Conference. RAILWAY DISASTER. WASHINGTON, June 16. Four were killed and uiirty-five inured when three coaches of the Chicago North Western train plunged through a, bridge into the creek, near Crawford, Nebraska. _ FREIGHT REDUCTIONS. NEW YORK, June 16. To stimulate cargo movements from the Pacific Coast ports to Australia, the General Steamship Corporation, Oceanic Steamship Co., Canadian Government Marine and Canadian Australian line have agreed to sweeping freight rate reductions, to become effective immediately. Tlie tariff »' regard to canned salmon is reduced from twenty-five to twenty dollars per ton ; portable houses from eighteen to fifteen dollars per ton; wallboard lie same. The lumber rate remains twenty dollars per thousand feet. rates apply to Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, and Melbourne.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1921, Page 3
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150AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1921, Page 3
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