AMERICAN ITEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEM.

•VSTRAMIN ANDN.S. CAUI.B AMOIIAIIC.N LYNCH LAW. NEW YORK, March 8. A fourth negro has now been lynched over the assault on a white girl .in South Texas. The girl died. The Texas Governor, Mr Nieff, has sent troops to the district, so as to assure order being maintained. Rumours are current that the negroes are banding together to take revenge for the lynching*. PRISON MUTINY. NEW YORK, May 9At Colombia, in South Carolina, lo prisoners were shot. Several were seriously injured. The shooting was we result of a mutiny in the State Penitentiary Chair Factory. The prisoners refused to enter the factory, claiming that they had been deprived of certain essential rights. Meanwhile, a number of prisoners who had been working on the second floor, set fire to the building. The fire hose was found to be cut. The prisoners attempted to charge the guards, who then opened fire on them. The city police and firemen were called ill. They subdued the prisoners They also extinguished the fire. They disclosed numerous weapons that were devised in the factory, and smuggled into the cells. LYNCH LAW. 1 NEW YORK, March 8

A fourth negro has now been lynched over the assault on a white girl in South Texas. The girl died. The Texas Governor, Mr Nieff, has sent troops to the district, so as to assure order being maintained. Rumours are current that the negroes are banding together to take revenge for the lynchings.

RESTRICTION OF ORIENTALS OTTAWA, May 9.

The House of Commons debate on the exclusion of Orientals from Canada resulted in an amendment to the resolution, to provide effective restrictions, instead of exclusion. Premier King said the Government were negotiating with Chin*, with a view to remedying the conditions by a system ef passports, Th§ niflfhtiroeiit wtt# mjopfeij,