AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN ANT) N.Z. CAItI.E ASSOCIATION. ANOTHER DROIT (Received lids day at S a.m.) N LAY YORK. June bib The pound sterling lias again dropped to 1.37. Wall Street regards the eau-e to the heavy buying by the Briti-h ol Cnited States Liberty Ronds and the resultant transfer of a large amount of sterling.

SHIPS RIVALRY

I.AKGF HATCH OF 1 ALU It: 1! A NTS

ißeceived this day at S n.m.) NKW YORK. June 3‘A.

Twen tv-live ships huicn with fifteen thousand Knnoenu immigrants v. ill liegin discharging their passengers at midnight. endeavniirng to lill the duly ipiota of the new fiscal year. Meanwhile two thousand more seek an entry via tin Canadian border, having travelled i hither to avoid the congestion at the Atlantic ports. The Government officials face an insoluble congestion problem, sine I .' Lllis Island's utmost accommodation is A..TO!), thus adding to the coulusion. Coder the immigration Law twenty per cent, of each country's ipiota will l.c admitted during emit of the lito successive months for which reason each ships is eager to e.ustrip her rivals. The Mbps are jockeying for positions in the harbour.