AMERICAN ITEMS.
[Reuters Telegrams.]
SEIZURE OF LIQUOR. NEW YORK, October 13. The largest liquor seizure in the history of prohibition enforcement on the Pacific Coast, has been effected b.v the Government officers to-day, when they captured the British steamer Quadra, which is privately owned by a Vancouver company. According to the Sail I*’ran cisco officers, the l.Hiadrn was the mother ship of a huge rum fleet. She was captured six miles oil the coast, when in the act of transferring liquor to smaller vessels. One of those was seized a few hours earlier and it had liquor aboard valued at I'-1000. ABCTIO TBAGKDY. OTTAWA. October 13. The Government learns that the frozen bodies of lour members of StefI'anssoiTs Knrluk expedition have been found at Herald Island, near Wrangel Island.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1924, Page 2
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