AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NECESSITY TO PAY. NEW YOKE, .Tune 27 President Harding in a speech at Suit Luke City, said there was but one way for the community finally to get buck on its feet. That was to go seriously about paying its debts and reducing expenses. That was what the world must face. The settlement of the British debt had been acclaimed uli over the world ns one ot the most notable and successful fiscal accomplishments ever recorded. \o event since the armistice had done so much to restore, world confidence and stabilisajJr" tion. WORLD AIR KOLTE. - WASH INOTOX, June 20 • Following the publication of the details of the British world flight, Mr Weeks has aufiiorised tin army preliminarily survey fur a similar route lor army fliers who will traverse Alaska, Japan, China, and Australasia, returning' via the. Atlantic,

CAXADIA X EBE Cl 'IONS. OTTAWA, .J line 20 The elections have resulted in the defeat of Premier Drurv, and five other members of the Cabinet. Mr Hay, the Leader of the Liberal Thirty, has also lost liis seat to a Conservative. On the prohibition question the Conservatives took a neutral stand, while the Farmers' Party emphatically supported prohibition. It is anticipated that Mr Howard I'erguson will Ik* the Premier in the new Conservative Ministry. CAXADfAX DECISION’. OTTAWA. June 20 A resolution empowering the (lovernrnent to prohibit the export of pulpwood from Canada lias been passed bv the House of Commons. Hon Mr Lithling 'Minister of Forests) stated that he could not give* the details of ulrit the new regulations would be. FLOODS IX ERLGLAY. (Received this day at 0.2." n.m.) BLENDS AIRES, June 20 The levels of the Lruguay and Panama. rivers are rising and are thirty or forty Jeet almve normal level and the flooded hanks for hundreds of miles i drove thousands of refugees to the * higher ground where food is scarce tiecause of the interrupted railway traffic. Several Argent ianian villages and neighbouring farm lands are completely inundated.

L.S.A. HEAT WAN E ENDS. (Received trii.s dav at 9.2.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 27 The .subsidence after five days of the heat wave in the eastern Lnited States was marked by electric storms, tornadoes and gales of cyclonic power. Killing scores and injuring hundreds in its sweep westward over the Lnited States from the Mississippi river. A downpour washed away the crops in some localities, hut elsewhere revived the growth. THE WET 1 SSL If. OTTAWA, June 27. A Toronto telegram states the final returns for Ontario election give the Conservatives 77, out of a tola] of 101 seats. 'Hie result, is regarded as a victory for the anti-prohibitionists who have been long opposed to the .stringency of the dry enforcement practised by the Farmers party while in power. The wets were not strung enough to win a victory themselves, and threw their support to the Conservations. Howard Ferguson (the new Premier) is pledged to continue the enforcement of the existing prohibition laws, but it is believed be will grant a. plebiscite in Ontario, similar to Manitoba, which tiie Wets won.