AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

ACSTIIAI.IAN AM) N.Z. ( Alll.E ASSOCIATION. PRIEST'S I'l-EA. nrn/rv of murder. NEW YOKE. April Hi. At Kalaniage.o, Father Dillon pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in ciniioetiou with the shooting of Father O'Neill, his assistant, on April 1:5. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour. WORLD PROBLEMS. U.S.-A. CON( KIEV. WASHINHTON. April Hi. President Harding, addressing the Cement ion of the Daughters of Ihe American jtevolnt inn. declared that the destiny of the race and the future of civilisation de| ended on finding an answer to the present world problems, ai d mi their sincere, generous, and Icomlininded acceptance of that answer; but until new paths were well tevcaled. they must hold secure those which they laid inherited. ‘We shall not find the answer which will he completely satisfactory to any state or race of people.” He said : ‘‘But it' wo pursue the quest optMi-mindodly, believe me we shall in the end discover nn advantage for the common welfare.’’ ( RKPU BLICAN KM H: HA NTS. NEW YORK. April Hi. Five hundred and fifty Irishmen am arriving by steerage on the Cartnauia. They are tlie possessors of British and Free State passports. Some were deda red by several of their number to be members of the Irish Republican Army who left Ireland because they were weary of the turmoil and fighting that leads nowhere. Several intimated that (hero was a lull in the fighting expected shorty, although they firmly declared that the irregulars had not given up the light against the I ice State.

DANCE CRAZE. NEW YORK, April Hi. Although Miss Magdalene Williams lias (lanced a new world's record ol (!■-> hours 53 minutes, without police interference. and although the Chicago health authorities declared time they would not interfere with anybody wishing to (lance themselves to death, me New York police have ordered three couples to leave a dance hall where thev were (laming against time. However, the dancers were undaunted, and then waltzed to a side-walk, and then up nn improvised ramp into a motor truck, equipped with u gramophone which discoursed the inspiration while the truck was ferried across the Liver Hudson 'to Fort Lee. m New' ' k ‘ l ' so >'; whose Mayor ordered them to leave tilt town. . • Meanwhile the dancers continue h.-u marathon upon the motor truck lootpending a search for a more hospitable to 'l'he public everywhere arc thoroughly aroused, and it is believed unlikely tint tlm authorities will tolerate •' continuance, hut the dance are adamant, declaring that the contestants will finish in gaol, if iieccssai.i. MILLIONAIRE GAOLED. CONVICTED FOR MURDER. NEW YORK, April IT. A telegram from Philadelphia s,,\s that Harry G. Brock, a luillmna.ire and society man. is the first motorist u America to he convicted on a m'lldii charge arising from an automobile a<ride,a. Brock pleaded K u.Ity to -m----der in the second degree. I <’ • ' tenced to ten years’ ....prison' >■ ■ SSV**Sl.*J2ir'«&.»«»»»** [ *,,i K l, rate o( >p«"l ' kro ">' ll U ‘“ ‘ streets.