AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association

NATIONAL HIGHWAY

(Received this day at 11.25 a.nt.)

WASHINGTON. November 19.

The Secretary for Agriculture (Mr Jardino) has inaugurated a national system of highways, comprising 75,8.81 miles of the country’s best roads. 'lbis is the first national highway system when the United States has adopted and established. There are 1-15 routes, touching every State in the l nion. Hie total mileage is only a fraction of 2M:;G thousands of miles of roads of till kinds in the United States but is it. selection of the best laid down foundation for welding others into the system later. A co-ordination ol routes has been made in response to a nation-wide demand hv motorists, whose increasing numbers found an increasing difficulty in touring the country over roads marked chaotically. Ihe achievement constitutes the must ambitious attempt at a national system since Napoleon laid out the still existing network o! routes national in France.

PAN-PACIFIC UNION. SAN FRANCISCO, November 10. David Starr Jordan, a noted American educator, lias arrived from Hawaii. He states the Paii-Paeifie Union would establish a bureau financed practically bv the Governments bordering on the Paeilie and partly hv private donations, to study everything eotiueeted therewith, from insects to jingopests. END OF GREAT CRUISE. (Received this clay at 11.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 111. The U.S. Flagship Seattle has arrived lit llmoklyn Navy Yard, thus terminating one of the longest I raining cruises in the history of the Navy, these manoeuvres having begun last January, and reaching a climax in the Australia and New Zealand tour. Admiral Coontz commenting on the Australian and New Zealand reception, said it was ” Amazing, amazing, nmazng." Admiral Coontz. after a brief slay in New York will proceed to Washington relative to the assumption nf shore duly. The Seattle will remain here, probably for two months, after which she will proceed to the winter manoeuvres, with Admiral Robison as Commander-in-Cliief. FLIGHT POSTPONED. RUENOS AIRES. November lb. A telegram from Tiiciiman states as the plane was tillable to cross the Andes. Guillermo and llilleoat, the army aviators have postponed their Rneiios Aires to New York flight.