AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.J POLAND DM IST TO U.S.A. WASHINGTON. May 21. Polish bonds, amounting to 175.-V.O thousand dollars have been delivered liv the Treasury, thus formally completing the funding of Poland's debt. am nine an enter prises. VANCOUVER, -May 21. The National Air Transport Incorporated has been organised at ( hicago. with a capital of ten million dollars. It is to operate a freight and an express service between New I ork and Chicago. Other similar lines are contemplated. TO IIHING WOULD PEACE. NKW YORK. May 23. M.r.s Carrie Chapman Cntt, Honorary President of the Women’s International Women Suffrage Alliance, asking for a message bv the delegates to the International Council of Women, said: •• World peace is largely a woman’s job. Kverv Australian and New Zealand woman with vision should he doing it." The Women's Convention ended with a luncheon in honour oi the foreign delegates, and Lord and Lady Aberdeen, on the Suburban estate of Mrs Frank Yinderlip. There were 151) guests. UK AT AY AV K IN AMKPICA. NKW YORK. May 23. TliVi I'niled States, from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Coast lias been sweltering under the first. 1925 heat wave. Numerous prustrat ions are reported, principally in the Middle West while two deaths have resulted at Nebraska. The temoeraturo reached ninetyfour degrees at Washington, which is the hottest at this date tor fifty-six years. The thermometer rose forty degrees in forty-four minutes m Milwaukee. There have been unusually lion vv rainstorms in Minnesota and North Dakota. The temperature leached eighty seven degrees in New Volk, which is the hottest since 1902. NKW YORK. May 23.

A curious phenomenon was observed at Rochester. New York. Shortly after daylight, a heavy elond obscured the sun, suddenly turning day into night. Simultaneously, the waters of Cake Ontario receded a distance of 49 to 100 feet, later returning far above the ordinary water line. Terrific winds in Minnesota uprooted trees, overturned buildings and freight ears, and wrecked communication facilities. Chicago and other localities report that all the seasonal heat records have boon broken. RANK MERGER. OTTAWA. May 22. Another big bank merger is announced by the act ing-M i Mister of Finance. Mr Robb, who states that the Royal Rank of Canada, with its headquarters at Montreal, has abxortsed the Union Bank of Canada, with its headquarters at Winnipeg. Both banks have branches in all the cities and towns of the Dominion.