AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. STRIKE TROUBLES. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 21. ’ Reports from all over the country indicate the railway service is gravely handicapped by failing equipment, the locomotives especially showing the need of repairs. Long distance trains are seriously delayed increasingly, and numerous local ones have been abandoned and the trucks used to transport mails and supplies in many instances. The coal strikes are seeming no nearer settlement. Several Pennsylvania mines have reopened under the American flag guarded by militia which was tired on by snipers. The homes of loyal workers were dynamited in a score ol instances. Longshoremen are threatening to strike when the British coal arrives.

A BIG FAILURE. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July ‘24. A sensation was caused in Wall St. through the failure of Allen Ry*n and Son, T. F. Ryan, multi-million-aires. Their liabilities are stated to be thirty-two million dollars, and assets less than a million.

COAL FROM AMSTERDAM. SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. It is learned that twenty vessels have been chartered to bring coal from Australia, one being the Hollywood chartered in Ralph Hfhds interests It is announced the steamer West Islip from Newcastle (N.S.W.) will bring six thousand tons.