AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE MINERS’ THREAT. OTTAWA, July 4. Sydney (Nova Scotia) reports that ciidit thousand minors have struck in" sympathy with the -striking steel workers, thus making ten thousand strikers in the Capo Bretton district. The owners have been given a iow hours to remove the horses from the i-ual pits when the pumpmen are levying. The miners threaten to remain idle until the six hundred Federal troops and the provincial police are removed. The warship Wistaria has arrived in the harbour. There has been spasmodic rioting, hut so lar there has been nothing scrums. A NEW INVENTION. NEAT YORK. July -L The Pittsburg papers are devoting much spate to a demonstration of a new principle of mechanical power invented by Geo. Smith Morrison, of Australia. Severe tests were applied at the Carnegie Institute ot Icchnologt before scientists and practical mechanics, who express amazement at the machines, possibilities. Brictly it is a cogloss gear bv which a five horse-potv-ci motor drives one cud of the shaflat seventeen thousand revolutions a minute while the other end turns only at live revolutions per hour developing power which actually lifted twelve toils.