AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

wAUBTRALIAV 4ND N.Z. CABI.E ASSOCIATION

AN ENGAGEMENT.

(Received This Day- at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 20.

Harold McCormick, the multimillionaire of Chicago, has announced the engagement of his sixteen year old daughter Mathilde (granddaughter of John I). Rockefeller) to Max User/ riding master of Zurich, Switzerland, who is 57 years old. Mathildfc recently returned from Switzerland and intimated she loved a poor horseman to her astounded society family. Conferences were held resulting in a formal approval of the engagement. It is understood the family consent is conditional on Oser coming to America to live, this being a concession to Rockefeller who boasted that no fortune hunting Europeans ever married into liis family.

AMERICAN POLITICS. (Received This Day at 1.80 P-m.) WASHINGTON, February 20. Air Harding replying to Mr Hitchcock’s resolution informed the Senate that no records were kept of conversation leading to the Four Power Pacific Treaty. Tho conversation was purely informal. Even if there were records the President would regard it as incompatible with public policy to reveal them. He reassured the Senate there was no secret understanding of any sort. The Foreign Relations Committee voted ten to one in favour of tho treaty with Japan. Regarding the Yap Pacific cables the House passed a resolution extending the three per cent restriction immigration law to June 30th., 1923. It now goes to the Senate.