AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

liberalism and piuniißiTiox. AN EDITOR’S PREDICTION. (Received this day at 9.J0 a.in.) Ori'AWA. Doc. IV. A telegram from Toronto says tlie* support of the cause of prohibition by Mr Lloyd George, .ami the Liberal I'atry may he the next move in British polities. This is the opinon of .Mr A. 15. Baxter, editor of the London “Express” who is en route to Vancouver to he married. .Mr Baxter is convinced that Mr Lloyd George has already taken the matter into consideration and predicts that prohibition will figure largely in the next appeal to the people by British Liberalism. more alcoholic dea ms. NEW YORK, Dee. 17. With the approach of the Xmas holidays and the" consequent restricted liquor supply, owing to the greater demand, New York has been visited by an epidemic of alcoholic poisoning. Ibe tenth victim since Sunday died to-day at the Belle Vue Hospital, bringing the month’s total of deaths up to twenty-six. Twenty other patients are threatened with loss of sight and eleven more are expected to die.