AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

CLOUD BURST DAMAGE. NEW YORK. Feb. 16,

Following a cloud burst through California five to eight feet of water flooded soino districts. Motor traffic through the country is at a standstill. Six hundred people were driven from their homes at Santamoniea. Steamers are on route from San Francisco for San Pedro with perish'ablo freight which the railways lare not able to handle for a week. The swollen Sail Diego river was dammed by the Santefe railway bridge, which the Government was preparing to dynamite to prevent the valley below lteing engulfed. Twenty-five hundred ure borneless at Longbeach.

CANADA’S BUDGET. (Deceived this day at 10.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, Feb. 17. “Four years ago when I presented my first budget, Canada was still sufferng from the effect of post-war depression. To-day, all traces of that depression have disappeared,” said Mr Robb (Finance Minister) in the Commons to-day, in introducing the Budet of 1927-28. Declaring his aim had been to lighten the burden on every taxpayer rather than afford relief to special groups in province sections of the country, lie announced that taxation reductions were estimated at twenty-seven million dollars. • The Government policy had been to promote trade relations with other countries particularly the Empire. He estimated the favourable trade bal•ance of the present fiscal year approximately at 250 million dollars. FOG TN AMERICA. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 18. An unusually dense fog covered the northeastern coast of the United States from northern New Jersey to Boston. Shipping in New York harbour is disrupted, the fog being too thick. Observers at Ambrose lighthouse are unable to see even the silhouettes of four ocean liners which are due. It is presumed they have dropped anchors in the outskirts. Many river vessels have anchored and New York ferries are either greatly delayed or not operating, including that to the Statue of Liberty. A ferry boat operating between Brooklyn anil New York had its sides wiped bv a barge, causing intense excitement among three hundred passengers, but there were no injuries. Another ferry boat was swept up the river by the tide and narrowly averted encashing into a sea wall.

FLOOD DAMAGE. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 17. With at least twenty-four dead and property damage expected to total several millions, as the result of unprecedented rains and snowstorms in California. Utah. Neveda and Arizona, since the beginning of the week, the forecast to-day was continued rains. Floods forced five thousand residents in Southern California cities to flee from their homes. The damage to bridges alone in Los Angeles is a million dollars. Communication with San Diego is completely severed, except by sea and radio. The wind toppled hundreds of oil dcrieks in Taft' district. The death list from snow slips near Fresno has reached thirteen.