AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

• ÜBTtULIAN AND N.Z- CAULS ASSOCIATION HELD CP BY .MEXICAN BANDITS. MEXICO CITY, April Id. A report from Chihuahua states that five hand its ambushed and Jired upon an automobile containing an Australian named W. Cooper, an Englishman named Joseph Reynolds, and their wives, near llie village of Francisco Combos. Reynolds was slightly wounded. An other bullet grue/.d .Mrs Cooper’s lace. The party was then held up for ransom, which the elmlFeur was sent, to collect. AY lion the chali'eur failed to return, the bandits sent Reynolds after a ransom holding the others overnight. The entire party were released at dawn, on the arrival of Federal troops, which arc now pursuing the bandits.

FIXE CHURCH DESTROYED. (Received fins day at 10.2 d a.in.) NEW YORE, April 111. The Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, cue of the finest in America, has heen destroyed by fire. The damage amounts to Cloo,ooo. BANKS’ ARMED GUARDS. NEW YORK, April Ifi. Steel cages have been installed in the hanks in Kansas City to enclose armed guards who will attempt to protect the hanks against recurring holdups. So bold have the robbers become that 500 rifles and sawu-ofF shut .guns have heen distributed among bank officials and clerks in neighbouring stores for use in an emergency. SASKATCHEWAN GOES WET. NEW YORK, April Hi. The State of Saskatchewan, which has been, dry since Hilo, is now wet. The sale of liquor has heen resumed this time from the Government stores on a system similar to that <>l British Columbia'. In the latter province the Government stores sell harder liquors, while one hundred and forty new beer halls are scattered through the country and these are operated by private licensees.