AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRAINS HELD UP. NEW YORK, August 13. Passengers by some trains were held up in the desert, but some were not. Passengers at desert stations became so ill from the terrible heat that the train crews in several instances relented and hrougjht the train into cooler coastal regions.

AN ESTATE. NEW YORK, August 13. Percy Grainger through a conceit fr manager, announced that an erroneous impression was circulated concerning his mother’s estate. My mother, he says, never had any fortune, and the property she left amounted to 3,121 dol- '• lars.

MAGNATES WANT FIGHT. WASHINGTON, Aug 14. The Railway Executive’s Committee have left the'capital, after having rejected President Harding’s proposal for a settlement of the strike. They declare they are now prepared for a fight to a finish. They say they do not expect any further Government effort to arrange a compromise. The Railwaymen’s Labour organisations will confer this morning, and the Four Big Brotherhood will continue their mediation efforts.

THE ADRIATIC EXPLOSION. J~ (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August'l3. A White Star Official, after investigation, states he is unable to 'discover the cause of the explosion In the Adriatic, which docked orl Sunday. It is believed to be caused by spontaneous combustion. The hero of the disaster is James C. Corrigan, the second "engineer, who entered the burning hunker, in face of almost certain death and dragged out the body of Corrigan who is dying in the hospital here. The passengers contributed seven thousand dollars for the families of the victims and memorialised Capt. David, praising the coolness of the entire crew.

DYNAMITE BOMB. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 13. Twenty women and children were hurt on an excursion train at Weehawkeu, New Jersey, when a dynamite bomb alleged to be thrown by strikers, exploded on the track. —- PARIES TO MEET. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 14. Anthracite operators in Pennsylvania district and striking miners agreed to meet on Wednesday to discuss a settlement.

PRESIDENT’S INTENTION. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 14, Following the rejection of his settlement plan, it is learned Mr Harding means to let the railway strikers fight it out, so long as the railways are able s to maintain a service approaching nor-N. mal. Government will not interfere.' Jf.but should transportation collapse, the President will ask Congress to sanction a Federal seizure of roads.