AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] CANADIAN TRADE. OTTAWA, May 5. Canadian exports for the fiscal year ended March 31st, totalled one billion three hundred and fifteen million an increase of two hundred and forty-six million dollars. Imports totalled nine hundred and twenty-seven million, an increase of one hundred and thirty million dollars. The net improvement of the favourable balance was cue hundred and fifteen million dollars. Exports to Australia increased from three millions to over filteen millions and imports went up from lour hundred thousand to three millions. Exports to New Zealand increased by half a million to a total of sixteen and a half million. DUMPING DUTY. OTTAWA, May (i. It is stated at the Customs Department, that whether or not the Australian canned fruits are liable to dumping duty in Canada, is not under investigation. COLLIERY DISASTER. VANCOUVER, May 7.

’.Messages from Pittsvillc, Pennsylvania, state four miners were killed through a gas explosion there to-dnv. Several others are entombed and a number were removed to the hospital badly injured.

WILKINS HAS A SMASH. (Received this dav at 1.5 p.m.l VANCOUVER, May 7. A message from Fairbanks, reports the aeroplane Alaskan of Wilkin’s expedition was attempting to take off for the flight to Point Barrow to-day when it was seriously damaged, the propeller being splintered and the wings torn to shreds, and the landing gear on the right side was reduced to a tangled wreck. VANCOUVER, May 6. The airship Alaskan was wrecked when landing. The gear buckled as the ship taxied over a. soggy field. Wilkins has announced ho will fiv in the Detroiter to Barrow.