AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTH AI.IAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION KNOUMOI’S UPHEAVAL. IN BED OF PACIFIC.

XKW YORK. I <-I» ,1. Further !'t'|iorls in regard In vo.-ter-ilii.v’s earth disturbam i's strengthen the belief that one of the greatest upheavals lias occurred in the In d of the Pacino Ocean. Honolulu dispatch-.-- state Sligo has suffered the greatest damage. prohalily fifteen hundred thousand dollars worth of wharves and railway bridges having been destroyed. Several large liners suffered small damage. Pago-i'ago has reported that no shock was felt in Samoa. The United States Guam cable has I; en broken, hut it is not believed that Guam Island lias suliered. The Hawaiian seismographs have registered further shocks. It is estimated they arc many miles distant. SYDNEY iiKCOli !)S. SYDNEY. Eel; •">. The seismograph at Kiverview College has recorded the earthquake mentioned in yesterday’s American cables. It places the origin at the Aleutian Islands.

DEBTS TO U.S.A. NEW YOIUK, Eeb d. ( According to the “New I ork rimes’ "Washington correspondent. President Harding will confer to-morrow with, the leaders of the House and the Senate concerning the British debt legislation. Tho President will do everything in his power to avoid the addition of an amendment to the Bill providing for a soldiers’ bonus, hut, should tliis be done, it is expected an amendment will he killed in the Senate. ! President Harding has received reports that the opposition to the Guiding proposal is steadily decreasing. There will probably be less than 20 Senators against the measure. It is pointed out that the opposition will take the ground of there being too lenient terms, but that it will be un- • able to overcome the fact that, in view of the American Debt Commission's acceptation of these terms, it- is improbable that the British would accept more stringent conditions if he negotiations were re-opened.