AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

lUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION

TENNIS QUARREL SETTLED. NEW YORK, Jan. 27 Tlu> quarrel between Tilden and the Tennis Tournament Committee has been amicably settled and the American Olympic team sails on the 4Hi of June. AFTER TEN YEARS. NEW YORK, Jan. 27 Ten years ago William Sage killed James McNair in Pennsylvania. He escaped and began a new life in California. Recently he paid a visit to his estranged wife who betrayed him. Sage was arrested, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. AI INK DISASTER. NEAV YORK, January 27. A telegram from Shanktown says that 17 bodies have been recovered from the Lancashire mine. The forty miners'entomhed are dead. AMERICAN OIL SCANDAL. WASHINGTON, January 27. With the oil lands lease investigation developing into the gravest scandal in history of American politics an announcement- by President Coolidge that he will form a legal committee front the Republican and Democratic parties who will take over the Senate CunniitTMe’s evidence, anil begin the prosecution of all persons concerned in any malfeasance reveals the existence of an unusual situation.

Evidence developed before the Senate Committee now involves the former Secretary of tho lutiior A. 13. Fall,' with Messrs Deliby. Daugherty, and Theodore Roosevelt, who is Assistant Scent ary of the Navy.

President Cuulidge hints that serious conniption exists, and the testimony gnen by Fall conflicts v.iili that from others, especially concerning certain largo loans granted by various individuals. who obtained oil land louses.

The Democrats are openly gleeful over the situation and it is widely assumed that the scandal spells death for tlie Republican aspirations at the coming Presidential election.