AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

lUBTIULUN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PLAGUE FEARED. W ASH INGTON. December .*ll. Ilie Health Department has invoked a iigid health inspection programme, applicable to ships reaching any American port from New Orleans, San Bcd- ") and Oakland, as a precaution against the spread of bubonic plague infection in those cities. NEW YEAH CASUALTY LT.ST. NEW’ YORK. January I. While the celebration of the New Year throughout America was attended liv fewer casualties among the celebrants than in the previous year, nevertheless the toll of deaths and injuries on the present occasion is considerable. Two men wore killed and two men and two women wounded by stray bullets from pistols used ns noise-makers during watch night observance in Chicago. One man was shot by the Txu Klnx Klan during New Year celebrations at Niles. Ohio. Three persons wore shot in Detroit, while Boston reports that several were injured during the celebrations. Three persons were stabbed in Xov; York, while two died of poison liquor, and forty-five are ill as the result of drinking deleterious intoxicants.