AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTItALI AN and n.z. CAItLE association. C.S. \. IMMiHUATION. MOVE KOI! 1! KDEC TIO.N. \\.\Nll INHTOX Xovembet ID. (Tiairman .loin.sou ol tin Hon>e Immigration Cmnmittre. diseu-sed immigration with I ’resident ( oolidoe and then snninmm-d till- eominittee to D.'iice ~ow immigration legislation on the basis of two per cent \eatly ol the nationals in the Cnited States in IBDII as compared with thee |e-r cent of the I'.HO ei-usus. This would reduce immigration to din thousand, instead of Sol! thousand riiiiiially. and would increase I*-n----1011. Celtic ami British immigrants while '-educing the Latins. ■\VOBI D I- I.iCHT. WASH INHTOX, November 1 0. It is announced Unit four army aviators, witii the approval of the Cnvcrnment. will make a world (light. beginnitijj next March. The Cnited States are now negotiating for the consent ol the foreign (Jovei nmeiits whose territories will be traversed. The aviators will jty from Washington l-o Alaska and the Asiatic Coast, 1 lienee to Europe and the Arctic legions. They it-turn to AYashineton. STKRLI.NH sthonukk. X'EAA VOHK, Nov. Mb Sterling, which ojtened at I dollars o(; cents rnpidlv showed the eject" favourable news, eiiielly that an Entente rupture has been averted, aim the Cl rose to I dollars !l!i cents when the day’s trading ended. LIQUOR All BESTS(.Received this day :it D.To a.m.) NIvW VOHK, November 'TO. l-hiladelnhin repou* v hat. is rousider-,-d record-breaking week-end of intoxicants under prohibition, lor this the third largest city of America shows three hundred arrests for disordeily conduct while under the influence of liquor. Two men died from the cfleets of poisonous li-pior and eight are lying near d-nth. while forty are slowly recovering. One old man arrested lor intoxication, committed suicide 111 bis cell. Mare than twenty nationalities were represented among those arrested, includin'' Chinaman and -bipancse. DEBTS TO C.S,A. SPEED)' SKTTLKM ENT WANTED. Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) AV ASH [NOTON. Nov. 21 • It is understood that when the Forcien Debt Commission meets next month. Senator Smoot will propose that a diplomatic meumraiida he sent to do 1t„r nations who have not yet arm,mod a settlement, urging the latter to u-o----.mtinto for finding arrangements. Ihe feeling exi-ts among various monmois of the Commission that the American lenience . which it was hoped would give an impetus to the quicker 0c0, ......10 rehabilitation of Europe, nos had a ™«- trurv ell'eet. The Fnited States, which at all Limes has insisted that the th >-> must uUimatdy he paid, will probably ilo < f roator pootl ’»y T K(n ' on a business basis.