AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

tßnuTEtis Tklkurams.] U.S. LIQUOR. NEW YORK, October IS. A Boston telegram, says three steamers and sixteen schooners for a rum row are approximately eighteen miles east of the Boston Light. According to the officials, apparently the vessels are coming north at tho result of Coastguard activity in the neighbourhood of New York. CHINESE WIVES ENTER U.S.A. XUW YORK. October IS. In the United States District Court, at Boston the Judge ruled that tho Chinese wives of United States citizens have a right to enter the country, despite the new immigration law. A bride from China, brought over by a Chiiiese-Ainerican born merchant lias, accordingly been admitted. It is said this decision will effect thousands of such citizens. NEW YORK BUDGET. NEW YORK, October IS. New York City’s IP2) budget lias tenatively placed the expenditure at approximately four hundred million dollars the largest on record. This includes two millions for the police, giving the city one thousand additional police: two millions for street cleaning; a million and a half for increased salaries for the minor city officials. and one million for the Board of Child Welfare.