AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

iUSTIIALIAN AND N.Z. L’AIILIi ASSOCIATION. TUI-: DRV LAW. (Received this day at 10.2 d a.m.) NEW YORK Sept. 28. To test the validity of United Slates Hum treaty with Britain, for establishing a. twelve mile limit, a. suit has been entered hy Neptune Association (an organisation of American d >ek olli'ics) to reek r,n iiijuinfion reslrP.'iiing the Oun.'ird ( nifnn.v from bringing Ibpior within ITiil’.'d St • i-'s walei", an I the seizure of all li(|iior hroiiglit to ibis port, regardless of the treaty, which is declared to I e ;i violation of the Constitution ami also of the prohibition law. The Association also declines llml llie treaty has cimsed a heavy loss to American ideamsliip opeintions. r.s 1 'ir-.sci.gers avoid American dry boats preferring the British, while many Uttiled States vessels have changed t<> British registration.

IX Al A US. [Rkutkkh Tk i. kci nams . ] (Received this dn.v til 9.2 d tun.) W'ASIMXdTOX, Sept. 27. 1 iiili.-ntions that tl.c temperature of A I,'irs is low mid tin* atmosphere rare is announced h,v Carnegie Institute, as a result of 01. ervalion ol Calitornia Observatory (luring 11: .* re: cut approach ol the planet. The measurement. ol' the temperature and heat radiation was made with a vacuum thoriumenplc attached to the It.ilin. rellecling telescope. The measurements indicate the tiopicol region of Alars at noon is ten degrees above freezing and the mean lempornluio over tlie polar cap ninety-live ilegrese below zero. Fahrenheit. The average temoerature of the tropics is between Afartian sunrise ami i) o’clock and is ten degrees above ze;n. The maximum heat comes at noon.

A CLERO YAIAX'S I*'A Id,. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at 9.25 a.in.) NEW VOItK. Sep. 2s. Rev. Joseph Yates, of Oklahoma, in a farewell note to bis congregation, informed them that he had (doped with a fourteen year idib member of the choir, lie added that when a clergyman strayed from the straight and •narrow path, the publicity given him created more feeling, than il an average person strayed. Ames rei-ent-lv divorced his wife, naming another clergyman, Rev. Hertrani Miller, as corespondent. Miller committed suicide. In his note (d' farewell, Yales said lie also contemplated suicide, but did not wish to put an extra stain on the cloth, following so much publicity recently in the case ol Rev. Lawrence Might, of Mount Vcinon, 'lllinois, who fell in love with a member of his congregation. It is alleged Might poison--S'c.l his wife, and the lover poisoned her husband. Roth are now in the same gaol as the result of Might’s complete confession.

JEWEL ROBBERIES. {Received tins day at. 11.25 a.i11.) NEW YORK. Sept. 28. The tremendous loss sudered by American jewellers cabled on March 21th. and Oct. 29th. 11)23. continues apace. The Jewellers Security Alliance announced that during June. July and August 17” jewellers in New A orl; and vicnitv were robbed approximately of Cot) thousand dollars, and during the first eiglit months of 1924. the total reached 2.171,00!) comprising holdups and thirty-six safe burglaries. I lie Alliance stales the activities of criminals has become more persistent and daring. There has never been n time when this was truer. Ins is retlecUd in the large number of daylight ikpudatioiis. ami while arrests that are lie ing made are mostly young men, who are not identified with tlw civrimtl undorwnrh. The crime re." rt:s no' ertledcss show that jewellers w-o arc protected against robberies are studiously avoided.