AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LATE PRESIDENT’S WILL. WASHINGTON, Aug 12. The will of the late President, Harding, which was made prior to his departure for Alaska, last June, and will be filed for probate at Marion, disposes of an estate estimated at 75,500 dollars. The chief beneficiary is Mrs Harding who already possesses a considerable estate of her own.
The principal item in the estate is a share in the proceeds of the recent sale of the “Marion Star,” but the late President was also interested in bank and industrial enterprises wherein he held stocks.
NEW IMMIGRATION LAW. (Received this dav at 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 15. The Secretary for Labour, Mr Davis, has returned from Europe. He has recommended a selective immigration law whereby Consuls will be given power to refuse visas to prospective immigrants who fail io pass an inspection abroad, and thus effectually refusing passages to undesirable aliens and obviating the congestion at American immigration detention stations. U.S.A. COALMINERS. WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. Following conferences between President Coolidge. Mr Hoover and the Coal Commission officials, tlie Federal Government has invited the coal minors\i»., and operators to meet in New York tomorrow to endeavour to efloet a new wage settlement, thus averting the threatened strike.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1923, Page 2
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210AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1923, Page 2
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