AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.J CHEAP FARES TO CANADA. OTTAWA. Dw. 15. Details of the new Empire Settlement Act oiler to agriculturists and house workers irom the Foiled iviugilom transportation to destinations in Canada at a lower rate than for a goncratien past, according to the Department of Immigration and '.'•lonisation. A comparison of the regular rates Irom the ports of the foiled Kingdom with the rates available to Empire settlement- passengers shows remarkable tediietions. The new rates are only about- line-quarter to about one-sixtit of the regular rates. The Immigration Department, in a statement, says: ‘dt will bring the ("’■si ol a passage to the immigrant within reach of practically all British -etllciof the classes sought, and will enable the Kmpiro settlement passenger to land in Canada without an overhead debt to be paid. HOME' FOR At iFD DESTROYED. NEW TURK. Dee. |.V A tire destroyed the Providence Catholic Home lor Aged Alco and Women at Ridgewood, in New Jersey. Twenty ol tile nun-, rescues! one hundred and seventy inmates. 'I be damage amounts to £l-1(1.(K)0. If FSSI AN AIISTREST. NKAYYORK, December 15.

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to the people of America against the Locarno Treaties is contained in a cablegram sent hy the Soviet Ambassador, M. Hakowsky. from Paris to the " Xew York Times." 'Hie message -av - : " 1 consider that only the lutlire will tell whether the Locarno Agreement has contrihulcd to the general peace. Our public opinion looks with great mistrust on every alliance, considering that every new grouping ot the nations disturbs the balance of power, and facilitates the eventuality of a conflict. The Locarno Pact, ill our interpretation, is. hy the objective developing of events, directed against the Russians. A pence, which is organised either against or without Russia, is an impossibility." HGGE CANARIAN’ HARVEST. OTTAWA. Dec. 1.1. The total value of the principal field crops of Canada is estimated hy the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at ■ 1,112.001 .(lOOdd. The total value of the wheat imp is estimated at Lffb(B3.ooo in execs- of ihe wheat crop oT 102!. SHIP IN TROUBLE. VICTORIA. (Brit. Col.) Dec. LI. The standard nil I anker, ’“11. T. Harper." hound to San Francisco from Sidney. \ustra!ia. is in trouble two t!i n-.ind miles from San Francisco. \ me—age states the vessel’s rudder was smashed in heavy weather.