AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] HOLIDAY KTRIK 10 MIXERS TKIIM’IXO TO EUROPE. (Received this dav at 8 a.mA XKW YOLK. August 31. Never was a great strike inaugurated with so little public anxiety as tile coal strike. Xo dramatic differences mark the argument between the men and the employers and the country is filled with unprecedented supplies. It is estimated there are eight million tons. Everywhere there is a disposition to record the strike as a sort of holiday with a settlement in a fortnight or three weeks. The newspapers feature stories of miners leaving on Kuropean trips, the first holiday in several vears. taking L'lflOO to C 2090 with them. ALL FIELDS I DLL. XKW YORK. Sept. 2. All mines in the Anthracite field are idle to-day. The strike is one hundred per cent effective. There are no disorders. TRADES UNIONISM. DECLINING. OTTAWA. An east .‘it. At the Canadian Trades and Labour Congress annual meeting it was reported the membership was 105,090 which shows a steady decline from the highwater mark of ]"3,000 in 1922. T-lAWADAX FLIGHT. SAX FRAXCISCO. Apr. 31. There was- favourable weather, including ten to twenty mile winds, from the northeast forecasted for the (light to Honolulu. Two of the planes left at 2.-12 p.m. to-day. The Navy planes Xo. 1 and Xo. 3 reported that they were in communication with the first desf rover, two hundred miles at sea. at .3.3 this afternoon. FORCE!) TO DESCENT). (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) SAX FRANCISCO. September 1. Lieut. Allen Snood.v’s seaplane (Xo. 3i was forced to alight on the ocean three hundred miles from here on account of engine trouble. The plana rode the waves for six hours before the destroyer William. .Jones arrived U> take ii in tow. Repairs were made and the voyage was continued. Meantime Commander .John Rodger's flagship (number one plane) was proeeedi lie smoothly, sending cheerful messages. The convoys were last reported between eight hundred and one thousand miles out. Trade winds behind are expected to help it make up the hour and a half it is behind school! I e. Another account states the Navy Department at Washington was advised by Lieut. Sunodv that the plane will he unable lo make repairs at sea and continue flight to Hawaii and is • being towed to San Francisco by the j destroyer Wililnm .Jones. Commander Rodgers reported that 1 he has not had any trouble and be estimated that he is nearing the destroyer Doyin which is one thousand miles from San Francisco. For the first 890 1 miles lie averaged approximately 83 f land miles per hour, which was 59 nautical miles behind schedule. AX AIR FLY. SAX FRAXCISCO. Sept. I. 1 P.N. G. 1 passed the destroyer 1 Rene fourteen hundred miles out at : 10.47 a.m., and was given a compass * hearing. Xotliing had previously been heard from the plane since 0.19 a.m. ' f A SAD TRAGEDY. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) t XKW YORK. September I. 1 Th visit of an unnamed llriiish olli- * cor to America in the rule of an Enoch I Arden was followed by a double* frag- !1 edy. Sadia Reiner, a Helgian girl. 1 married the Englishman in 1919 and ' six months later she read the name ni I her husband in the casualty list. He- I lieving him to lie dead she emigrated ' to America with her baby daughter I and became a nurse in the home of Walter Fitzpatrick, a wealthy maiuiI'netureK She married her employer two years ago. Recently her first husband appeared and like Arden, departed again, hut her second husband's f suspicion’s had been aroused. She re- | niained dressed in a beautiful gown of 1 yellow silk. Sadia died in a gas-lillcd I room, leaving a note asking the police I to refrain from notifying her husband | who was holidaying. ( Fitzpatrick read the news ol his wife’s death in a newspaper. He returned to his room in his hotel and shot himself dead. FROHIMTIOX ENFORCEMENT. (Received this dav at 12 noon). WASHINGTON, September 2. That the future of prohibition tie- ( pends upon the success or failure of the new system of the Federal enforcement inaugurated to-day is the belief here. The Government is now in i readiness to make a supreme effort to make prohibition a reality. Every available agency possible to contribute to successful enforcement lias been placed at the disposal of the AssistantSecretary of the Treasury. Mr Andrews, the new dry leader. The system of forty-eight State directorships, which have been used during the past live years has been superseded by 91 district administrations. DROP IX AUSTRALIAN RONDS NEW YORK. September 2. Lacking support, the syndicate which limited the Australian loan, dissolved oil Monday, and the bonds heretofore selling around the offered price of 991, broke two points on the Exchange on Tuesday.