AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

•NOIXVIOOSBV aiUYO *Z*N dMY NYflvu.i.snv STRIKE SETTLEMENT. NEW YORK, Sent. 15 The refusal by a number of ti c country’s biggest railways to agree to the settlement plan cabled on Sept I,‘Uli, makes uncertain the effectiveness of the separate agreements under which the strikers were to return to work next week. While the names of those companies which agreed to a settlement have not been published, it is understood from thirty to forty lines, including Chicago, North Western Chicago, Milwaukee and Si. Paul have completed arrangements allowing shopmen to return. Labour leaders have been secretly endeavouring to persuade other lilies to agree, but the latter declare they have enough new men to maintain their services and decline to leave the seniority question to any arbitration. WAR DEBTS. NEW YORK, Sept 15 I TJio “New York Herald’s” Washington .-'corespondent (reports: —Tho U.S.A. Treasury Department states that Britain wil begin the payments of the interest on its debt to the t inted States on the 15th of October, when the half-yearly interest of 125 million dollars lulls due.

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CHANGE. . NEW VOltK. Sept. 14. I Tho House of Debates of the l':I"s----(ojial Clmrch convened at 'Portland, Oregon, has passed a law of tho Church, omitting the word “Obey from the marriage: cermeony. * l « House of Bishops has already approved this measure, which becomes operative three years hence. This change is one of many alterations adopted for the prayer book. The basic argument for the omission of the word “obey was that this was the twentieth century, and that the. idea ot a wife obeying her husband had no place today.