AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.) AMERICAN TRAIN SMASH. NEW YORK. June Hi. A telegram lrom llaekett's Town, New Jersey, states that at least sixteen persons were killed and scores injured when a passenger train was wrecked near there early this morning during an electrical storm. Tintracks were twisted by lightning and undermined by the rains. The passengers were mostly Aliens who intended to sail to-day lor Europe. They were asleep when the crash came and fought madly in the steam filled cars. NEW YORK. June 1(5. Advice from Hacketts (town) stales that twenty-nine are dead and sixtynine injured of whom a number may die. .PAN-PACIFIC ROTARY CONFERENCE. (Received this day at Hi.‘Jo a.m.) NEW YORK. June Hi. A message from Cleveland states the suggestion which is sj (insured by the Australian and New Zealand i luhs nt the Rotary International to-day that a pan-Piteifi:- Conference of Rotary (Tubs lie held at Honolulu in May, 1920. was approved. “DAMNABLE LIES." (Received tins day at L 0.25 a.m.) OTTAWA. June 17. Mr \V. T. R. Preston, whose report to the Government alleged Mini the North Atlantic Conference was a - bine whose operations was in restraint of Canadian trade, states that Peterson, whose body lelt lor England today, was killed by Hie “damnable and lying cablegrams sent to the directors of his company by the “’agents of xhijiping, combine." He expressed his Ive-li,-f that Peterson’s associates would go through witlr the contract which was nearing the final stages when the magnate’s death suspended further consideration. JAPS SEND DESTROYERS. TDK ID, June 10. Four destroyers departed from Sa.sclio to Shanghai. PRINCE IN TRANSVAAL. CAPETOWN, June Hi. From a biting cold on the high veldt, the Royal train conveying the Prince of Wales and suite plunged into the subtropical Eastern Transvaal. Ihe Prince received a splendid welcome at Barberton, which is now a thriving cotton centre. Then-sifter, the train stopped at Komatiptont on the Portuguese border and then proceeded to (only lion country. It will be out of telegraphic communication till Y cd-iH-sdav morning.

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