AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

EXCHANGE RA'I ES ALTER

N !•: W YORK, Sept. 23. ‘i'im (mx ign exchange market is reacting peculiarly to the Fa” Eastern and l.'.ir-. can situation. Ibis has resulted in gains in Hongkong. Pekin and Shanghai exchange lates. A sharp reactimi took place in sterling, resulting in a two cent nverirght less, reaching llli cut - in £l. Bar silver has iva bed new heights above any since 1!>22. In-day's piie being 71) 3-1(1 cents j cr ounce, reprose.aLiug an average gain ;.f nearly three cents over any month in 11.23. A large pail of tl’.e silver ilemanl was credited to the Ear East, especially to Indian having.

European exchanges have followed the English reaction fairly generally. A Tit AC Itm. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, September 30. Owing to his allege l drunken habits, the wife of Frank lkirnhaul of Toronto left him to resume her profession of .school teacher. Mrs Barnhard was out walking with a friend. Muirhead and his wife, when Barnhard :''urged into them with a motor cr-. Mrs Barnhard was killed and Muirhead seriously injured. Barnhard drove away and has not been captured. AN ACTRESS’ FORTUNE. (Received thi- dav at 5.30 a.m.) NEW YORK. S'e | >t. 30. Latin Crabtree, an old time a-tress is dead. She left an estate in excess of four million dollars, mostly the result of Wall Street investments. After sitting aside nominal sums fur relatives, tile will provides hundreds of thousands for the (are of animals, needy actors and sc tresses, and discharged convicts: a'so Ho establishment of a lrn-'t for s’ek and maimed soldiers of the Croat War, and free bed and attendance lor the ? iek pisu .