AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1926, Page 3

A MERICAN CABLE NEWS.

:Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] EXTREAIK Cold).

SUFFERING IN C.S.A. AN!) CANADA.

'’Received this day at 8 20 a.m.; NKH - TURK, Jan. 29. The United States and Canada are shivering under a wave of extreme cold and terrific winds, which reached a velocity of 81 miles an hour. The suffering is increased in some localities, by the shortage of coal due to the strike. The police are sheltering the homeless. Only parts of the south escaped the zero weather. The following tempera lures were recorded:- At- Montreal, If degrees lelow zero; Winnipeg. 28 below; New Xorthville and Vermont. 1G below. Twenty deaths have already been imported, mostly from fires due to overheat, several from exposure, and one through the explosion of an overheated furnace. Argentina, meantime, is suffering from a heat wave. DRUG HABIT IX TLS.A. NKW YORK. Jan. 28. Senator Kennedy said that he had a Bill giving the New York city police authority to enforce a Fed-rul Narcotic Act in an effort to check the spread of the drug habit among \oiinu schoolboys and schoolgirls. Senator Kennedy said that he had made a close study of the narcotic evil, particularly among the young. It was amazing to see how it haul gripped tli o young people. The police records show that the majority of the highwaymen in New York were mere youths. Prohibition was first blamed for this, hut it later was found that the greater percentage of the girls arrested for i rime or violence v.ere ding addicts. ‘‘They commit crime," he said, “to get money to buy expensive narcotics.” CANADIAN POLITIC.' I. SITUATION OTTAWA, Jan. 28. The Hon. Sir Krncst Lapointe, a ting leader ol the Government, announced in the Canadian Douse ol Commons on Thursday that, to 'd' 1 ’ 't a reorganisation of the Government. adjournment of the House of ( ominous for six weeks would he asked for, following on the Address. AUSTRALIAN TRADE TRBATY. OTTAWA. Jan. 28.

Replying in the House of Commons, to criticism and charges thill the Australian Trade Treaty was injuring the Canadian dairy industry. Ah* J. A. Robb (Alini.xter of Finance) said that only six hundred thousand pounds of ],utter had came to Canada from Australia and New Zealand sime the treaty went into effect. During that period a greater quantity of butter 'had been shipped to England and returned to Camilla, because of a shortage in the Canadian market.