AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

ICSTKALIAN AND N. 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PUSSYFOOT AGAIN. NEW YORK, Jan. 0. Returning from South East Africa. ■'Pussyfoot ’ Johnson greeted men with the statement: "I am not going to die lill the whole world is drv. Prohibition is making progress in England and South Atriea, and the Sultan of Zanzibar is an ardent prohibitionist.” He related how boob- A gaits gave him trouble in Port Elizabeth. -It was a wild night for trying to make a speech, hut I waited until the next night. One hundred Rhodes scholars and university students threw the brawlers out, and maintained or- -- dor." Mr Johnson added that hi* travels were beginning to take a physical toll. His left eve was weak, ami he was growing deaf, but ho would continue his propaganda as. Ik* whs able to talk. SHIP’S CREW ACQUITTED. NEW YORK. Jan. 9. The rury acquitted the crew of tio Zcohnnd mi the charge of inum-run-nitpr made on December 8. IMMIGRANTS FARES. OTTAWA, January Sn

The “Monrteal Star’s” Ottawa correspondent says: As a result of lengthy negotiations, the Ministry of Emigration ha- secured a 20 per cent preference tale for Atlantic passages for British emigrants settling in Canada, to !>• effective dining the 1924 season beginning on March 1. The steamship lines will give immigrants a fifteen dollar' rebate upon fvyventv-five dollars third-class passengers immediately upqp arrival. The officials believe fats step will assure a saving of fifteen hundred thousand dollars to the immigrants, who probably will number •one hundred thousand in 1924, compared with 62,493 during 1923. The rebate will be feetjvo for the Atlantic ports only.