AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

it'STRAI.IAN AND N.Z. CAIU.I3 ASSOCIATION. AMER IC A’S RE PR ES ENT A TIV E. WASHINGTON. July 2. The State Department announces the resignation of Mr Roland Hoyden. American observer on the Reparations Commission, because lie desires to resume the practice of the law. During the Anglo-French reparations crisis in January, Mr Boyilcn condemned the Treaty of Versailles, and opposed the French st izitr,, of the Ruhr, billowing on the German default in the coal deliveries. He also had a plan for the settlement of the r ‘partitions question of which Mr Hughes never approved. HOLD-UP OF EMIGRANTS. NEW YORK. July 2 Sixteen hundred immigrants passed through Ellis Island Immigration Station on Sunday, and they were ]>crmit ted to land, while 10,000 other arrivals are held back, partly on shiphoard and partly on the iolaml, awaiting an inspection. The reports show that the quotas ot several of the smaller southern European countries are already exhausted. Consequently the excess, totalling- several thousand- of people, will he deported. Meanwhile -1000 more are expected to arrive in the next two days. Five hundred immigrants, of whom a large proportion are British, were * admitted to the United States at Detroit, via Canada.

Australia’s immigration quota for the new fiscal year is 279, of whom a maximum number of 50 may he admitted monthly.

New Zealand's quota is a O, or 10 monthly.

A YANKEE EXPEDIENT. NEW YORK. .Ttilv 2. Mr Edward Williamson, of Philadelphia. editor and benefactor, lias offered 100,000 dollars to the American devising the most practicable scheme under which the United States may cooperate with the other nation; to ochjovo world peace.