AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1925, Page 4

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Australia &■ N.Z. Cable Association.]

CANADIAN* TREATY. OTTAWA, Juno 25. The Senate begins consideration of l lie Australian Treaty this morning. The debate is continuing. One amendment moved is that a reduction oil goods coming into Canada under the Treaty should not apply to goods oil which any bounty lias been paid by the Australian Government.

A lUSM SYNDICATE

BACK fc3D BY MILLIONS. NEW YORK. June 20. A message from Bangor. Maine, states it is revealed in the newspapers that a rum syndicate backed by millions, at the command of British and French financiers, lias been operating in the United States through socially and politically influential Americans. The schooner Cherie was recently seized off the coast with liquor aboard worth half a million. It. is learned that proof that the cargo was intended for the wealthy residents • of the Maine summer resorts and the names of the liquor owners are in the hands of tho officials. NOVA SCOTIA POLITICS. HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), June 20. The Government of Premier E. H. Armstrong has been defeated at the polls in the general election of Nova Scotia, by the Conservatives under the leadership of Mr K. N. Rhodes, thus ending forty-three years of Liberal rule in the province of Nova Scotia. The indications are that the Conservatives have won forty seats and the Liberals three seats in the House of forty-three members. Premier Armstrong was defeated in Ids own riding of Shelbourne.

AUSTRALIAN TREATY PASSED. OTTAWA, Juno 2l\ The Senate to-day gave the third jrend/ng O' (ke .Vuslralian I rente without amendment.