AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

SEAL HUNTERS. OTTAWA, March 19

It is reported from St. Johns (Newfoundland) that flie great annual seal hunt, which started a week ago, has ended in a partial disaster. The hunters killed one hundred thousand young seals in the icefields during the first three days of the season. • Half of these pelts were brought aboard ships, when a blizzard broke. The remainder were gathered in great heaps on the icefloes, awaiting haulage to the steamers. The force of the wind however, dispersed the ice pack, making it impossible for the hunters to recover the skins. The losses arc estimated at one hundred thousand sterling.

DE PINFIX) IN BRAZILIAN „ JUNGLE. RIO DE JANEIRO. March 19. A day and a night have passed since the Italian aviator, the Marchese do Pinedo left San Luis Cusreres, on a voyage northward across the Brazilian jungle, in continuation of his four continent flight, without any wold as to his whereabouts. llis silence is believed to be due to the fact that it is impossible to send any message from such a region. BIG TAX CUTS WASHINGTON, March 18. President Coolidge has announced that the next Congress will initiate a vast reduction in the taxes, the estimated total being in the vicinity of five, hundred million dollars, provided there is no reduction of the present unrivalled business prosperity.

The income tax returns for 192 G, paid mi March loth indicate that the total excess will he 15C3 million dollars. This is probably the largest excess in American history.

Of this total six hundred million dollars probably will lie used in the reduction’ of the national debt and ill a radical revision downward of the taxes, particularly in the case of corporations and individuals paving medium income surtaxes—list so-called “nuisance” taxes on nuomobiies, club dues, amusements etc. MEXICO’S STATE. NEW YORK, March 18. The New York Times has sent a special correspondent to Mexico to investigate the situation. The correspondent now telegraphs;—“Mexico is on the brink of a revolution, a revolution which may prove one of the bitterest and bloodiest in her ' turbulent history:”

The Observer expects the revolutionary movement, which is already a serious cue .to reach formidable proportions before long, because President Calles, through his Bolshevist leanings, has created many dilemmas, any one of which may result in his being deposed. namely—the religious represions, the petroleum controversies, and the agrarian crisis is due to the subdivision of large estates. Only the American embargo on the importation of. arms to Mexico (says the correspondent) prevents the spread of the present revolutionary movement, and the fact that Calles’s own army is well armed and fed and reasonably well equipped, but it is questionable how long he can now depend upon it.

AN AGREEMENT

OTTAWA, March 20

While an official announcement is unavailable it is understood the Canadian and Italian Governments have reached an agreement to co-operate in settling Italian families on Canadian farm lands, the terms including the granting or Canadian transportation interests the same privileges as are accorded Italian.