AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter Telegrams.]

COOK AIEAIORTAL MOVEMENT. HONOLULU. June 19

Sir Joseph Carruthors, of New South YVales, has arrived in the Aorangi to present an Australian flag to the PanPacific Union from Air Bruce (Australian Premier) on .Monday, when Governor Farrington will be present. He intends to confer with various organisations concerning the Polynesian Conference, to be held here in 1928, on the 150th anniversary of Captain Cook’s discovery of the group. The proposal includes memorial celebrations, including the assembly of an international fleet in Kcalakenkua Bay, where Captain Cook was killed in the following year. Sir Joseph Carruthers expects to further the plan for the establishment of a National Park at the scene of Captain Cook’s death.

KUCHARI ST] C CONGR ESS. NEYV YORK. June 19

Chicago messages state that a wave of pilgrims from every nation in the world has swept into that city for the International Eucharistic Congress. Tlio railroad officials there declare that the crowds exceed anything that has ever before been experienced. It is estimated that two hundred thousand people have reached Chicago by motors, trains and steamboats, and another 350 thousand people are expected to-morrow. The formal ceremonies of the Congress open at mignight to-night, with tlie first Masses in the various churches, after which Masses will be held in every Church until noon to-morrow With Cardinals, Archbishops .and Bishops as celebrants. All tlio visiting Cardinals and High Church dignitaries will gather ill the Holy Name Cathedral. Chicago, tomorrow for the formal instillation of Cardinal Bonznno as the official Papal Legate for the Congress. OTTAWA. June 21. At Nanaimo. British Columbia, the British Soccer tourists defeated Upper Vancouver Island aggregation by 3 to nil on Saturday. It is the tenth victory.