AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] TOWN DESTROYED. NEW YORK, March 2. News from Newport, Arkansas, states that troops are patrolling the ruins of this small town to prevent looting, following on a million and a half dollar fire which, destroyed over two hundred homes and other buildings. CANADIAN POLITI CS. OTTAWA. .March 2. The long sought adjournment of the Commons until loth March will be accomplished oil Wednesday afternoon as the result of a motion of closure carried on Tuesday, by a majority of 13. The motion was introduced by tbe ActingGovernment leader, Air La Pointc, the Progressive Independents voting with the Government m support of the tion. - to Since the closure appeared in tho Canadian House thirteen years ago it has rarely been applied, and it has never before been used on the debate in the Address-in-Reply.

FRENCH ARCTIC EXPEDITION. NEW YORK, Alarcli 2. Secret “ mystery sleds ” are being built in France for a French naval expedition to the Arctic, according to a. statement bv a prominent engineer, just returned from abroad. He stales that Daniel Martens, a Norwegian explorer. invented the machine, which operates on the tractor principle. The pulling wheel is in front, and it is equipped with rubber vacuum discs. WILKI NS’ EXPEDITION. XEW YORK, Afarch 2. A telegram from Nenann, Alaska, states that the oil and gasoline for the Wilkins trans-Polar expedition will be transported by' airplane from hail banks to Point Harrow supply base on the Arctic Occam All attempts by snow motors to haul the supplies have failed.

F.M RARGO ON COUNTESS KAROLYI NEW YORK, Afarch 2.

“To set forth specific information why the Countess Ivarolyi of Hungary, was barred from the United States would he to devulgc international secrets,” so Assistant-District Attorney Bober declared to-day in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in reply to a motion made on behalf of the Countess Karolyi. The Court took the ease under consideration. CANADIAN POLITICS. OTTAWA, Afarch 2. The Address to the Throne was carried in the House of Commons by 111 to 102, the Government majority l>eiiig nine The House automatically adjourned till Afarch 15. In the interval the Government will prepare a Parliamentary programme.