AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. SA LE OF POISONS. NEW YORK, March 7. Several of the Alid-Western State Legislatures have passed or are considering Bills characterising tlie sale of intoxicants which cause death as murder, and imposing murder nr manslaughter sentences upon ihi.se selling them. Oklahoma has already passed a law terming as murder the sale of swell things as wood alcohol. Ohio has passed a similar law. making it a crime in the second degree of murder. Kansas 11 ii< 1 Indiana have Bills pending, providing murder sentences. lowa has | assed a. law providing fi r punishment as for manslaughter. ' AMERICAN NEWS. WASHINGTON, March 10. The final contract for the British debt settlement- lias been drawn up at to-dav’s me ting of the American Debt Commission, and it- will be signed tomorrow. WASHINGTON, Alnrch 10. American Government officials are disposed to regard the TTnrvey-Bnlfour controversy as a personal one, since Colonel Harvey’s claim that the United States did imi attempt to hold Britain responsible for tlie loins granted other Allies has- been entirely in accord with the U.S.A. Secretary to the Treasury. Mr Ah lion's statement, regarding the Allied debts, as published last August.