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Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1923, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAnLE ASSOCIATION. F.S.A. POLITICS. WASHINGTON, Dee. 9 President (onlidge will he a candidate for the Republican Party nomination tor tin* presidency in 1921. This is definitely announced by It is former campaign manager. Alt- .Tames Reynolds. F.S.A. F.vRAIFR.B. AYASIIINGTOX, Dec. 9. Air Wallace’s annual report stresses *■ tin* serious condition of the tanners of tie* Fnited States, who are faced with a twenty-live per cent increase in taxation in three years, and a rapidly disappearing foreign market. 'I hey would he made radically to alter their present methods oi procedure. Air Wallace declared that in fifteen wheat and maze growing States, eight and a half per cent of the farmers were compelled to surrender their properties through bankruptcy, while fifteen per cent were actually bankrupt, but were retaining their properties through the leniency of their creditors, the report stressed the necessity tor the diversification ot their crops by the wheat farmers, and he indicated that the wheat areas are now rapidly being decreased. He added that the producers of crops which are mainly consumed domestically have succeeded in re-adjusting themselves to the present conditions. He concluded that the tariff gave the farmers any necessary protection, blit the depreciated currencies have limited foreign purchases.

.MEXICAN RISING. AIE X ICO CITY, Dec. !). Jalapa, the capital of the State* of Vein Cruz, fell into the hands of the revolutionaries on Saturday. F.l Paso (Texas) rail communications with Mexico have been destroyed by bandits. It is understood that President obregoii’s sympathisers took possession of several cities, and declared martial law. It is rumoured that Do la Huerta •and all his supporters have been deprived of office. A AY IFF. AIFRDF.RFI). 'Received this day at 9.-15 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 10. Hay Tomkins, a wealthy Alilwatikeo manufacturer, confessed to the murder cf his wife. Detectives found the woman’s torso in a sack hidden amtjEgtiuns in a ravine. AVben confronted with the remains. Tomkins broke down and detailod how he choked his wife to death, cut off her head and hunted it in a furnace, carrying tin* remainder of the dismembered body in a motor ear to the ravine.