AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(USTRAUAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE BOLL WEEVIL. NEW YORK. October 27. Tie National Conference on tic bull weevil, at New Orleans, has ado, red a. programme lor intubating the post which, experts d-G ire, can he cot trolled by the intelligent application of arsenic. Governor I’arkei oi Louisa-,a, -tilted the use of sulphur is more advisable. Other speakers declined that 37 pelrent of the cot ton growing area, of the United Slates is already inivsted, and more than 30 per cent of the cotton is destroyed annually. The Federal Government was called upon to extend its aid, the pest, being declared a national evil, with th? possibilitios of dire consequences to the nation ns a whole. There are 833 experiment stations for the study of the weevil already established, and the C'oufc‘rt.Mic*‘ l*:i> oxprossod the intention to establish 5000 more stations during the year. W.S. DRY LAW. WASHINGTON. Oct. 2 The Denartment of Justice has issued a general warning that foreign ships bringing liquor into the port ol New York will he seized and renewed. Violations of the Supreme Court’s shin liquor ruling, of the 13th of April, have been reported, and the Departmental agents are investigating instances where foreign vessels, alter leaving New York, have opened bars outside the three mile limit , thus indicating that they carried liquor into port upon a trip from abroad. Mr .Mellon’s announcement of the 3rd of May, that only liquor will be seized, will no longer be enforced, the authorities being convinced that the lime has come for the seizure of the vessels. They cite the instance of the British forfeiture of the German ship Cleopatra last June for bringing liquor iulo British territorial waters concealed in her bunkers as being a precedent for drastic action. The adminstration are not altogether surprised to hear that Britain is willing to accept ihe principle of the 12mile limit within which vessels may be searched. Bending the receipt ot British plans, however, the authorities are unable to say whether the stipulations of ihe l'im--d 8-Talcs diaft treaty have been substantially accepted. RECORD TIDES'. NEW YORK. October 2(5. A Seat He liM-senge states the tides in the history of Western Alaska have been recorded. They are believed to be the afteimath of the Japanese c irUiquakv. Wharves and YYarehouscs were destroyed at Kodiak. Uyttk and Ghigiiik tinii were several feet above tile waterline. LORD BIRKENHEAD'S VIEW. iHfeeived this day at S a.m.) NEYY YORK, (let. 2(i. Lord Birkenhead, interviewed, expressed pleasure that Britain and the United States had taken the latest action in the Reparations situation. Ho added: ".None the less, my opinion is that it is a great mistake to found too much optimism thereon. France's acceptance is doubly conditional, and the fact remains that. the. French intend to continue the occupation until Germany begins to make payments. But, what will happen in Europe and Germany while expert inquiries are being made. ; The material which requires examina--tion by experts is inercdbly complex. The figures involved are immense and bristle with controversy. How long will the examination take? What will happen in the meantime, and is it not obvious that, with every month Germany's capacity to pay any reparations must decline and the rest of Germane dragging, the rest of Europe to ruin is constantly increased. The lumlamental situation, in my judgment, is not profoundly affected by the happenings -f the week-end.”

NEW YORK TIMES SUGGESTS LOAN. ’Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. 2(5. The “New York Times" Washington correspondent savs the State Department now hopes that out of the general economic conference, affecting all powers directly interested in the Reparations Question, will make a loan to Germany in which American hankers will participate. The success ol the proposed steps is expected, especially sittee the United States considers the Freiieh acceptance of the American plan quite satisfactory and not likelv to limit the effectiveness of the expert's activities. PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE. (Received tin’s day at 8 a.to.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 2(5. President (Yinlidge. in a letter read at a dinner to the former Premier, said the vist of Mr David Lloyd George to the United States has been a “piece of good fortune for both his country ami our own. and for tin- cause of international neeonl." HALF MAX—HALF MONKEY. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) BUENOS AIRES. On. 27. Professor (Timenti O’Neilli. director ot the Buenos Aires Zoological Gardens-, and a distingushed biologist, has declared that the extension of monkey gland operations will probably result in curious changes in human evolution in llm course of a few generations. The time will come when the substitution of the secretions of such inferior animals its monkeys will come to he more widely practised and so many monkey men produced that after a few generations the characteristics of the human species worth! show variations and the genius of satyrs might result.