AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CABLE WORK. VANCOUVER. Feb. 23 Sir John Milhvard is sailing in tho Makura for New Zealand and Australia. He says the duplication of the Pacific cable is postponed, pending experiments on a new design.

AMERICAN POLITICS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 The Administration has surrendered to the Filibuster over the ship subsidy 1,111, agreeing to withdraw the measure In permit the consideration of other business. When the latter are disposed* of the ship hills fate will probably be definitely decided, either hy the' Senate defeating the motion to reinstate the bill as unfinished business, or bv sending it back to a committee.

13 BURNT TO DEATH. NEW YORK, Feb. 23 Thirteen persons were burned to death in a house fire in Kansas City.

UNITED STATES FEARS. NEW YORK, Feb. 24 The Hon Mr Hoover has informed the House of Representatives that the United States faces foreign monopolists’ control of rubber, nitrates, -salt, cocoa nut, oil and cocoa and he has asked for a $500,000 appropriation, which the House Committee has favorable reported on, to investigate the situation with a view to encouraging the production of these products, especially rubber, in the United States a possession. Experiments have been conducted in the Philippines and they disci,-,* that rubber can he raised there profitably on a large commercial scale.