AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) CANADIAN TRADE. YAXCOCYER. Dec. 31. Epitomising the views ot all leaders of business lile, \ aneouver, would produce a prophecy that the New A ear should be in many respects the greatest in the history of British Columbia and Canada, The tremendous growth of foreign trade is foreseen particularly with Australia, New Zealand and Orient. The Harbour Board is preparing a big building programme to cope with the increasing demands. r.S. IAI Al IG RATION. XEAY YORK, Dec. 30. Immigration Commissioner Day reported that during the year six hundred stowaways had I ecu caught in ships entering New York, and had been deported; 1 00.007 aliens entered United States under the quota during the year and of these 120.('00 entered by Ellis Island. Germany sent her 51,000 quota of ’ immigrants Britain and Northern Ireland 34,0'70 and Irish Free State 25,067. Bay declared lour thousand aliens had been dei>orted, and ill forty per cent, of these cases the reason was deiicient mentality.

ACTRESS MURDERED XEAY YORK, Jan. 2. New York has another murder mystery. Alary Harrington, a vaudeville actress was found beaten to death and moiled of jewellery valued at thirty thousand sterling, in a handsomely lurnished up-town apartment. THE COMET. NEW A'ORK, December 31. Air Fiank Seagravc. formerly assistant at Harvard Observatory, speaking at Boston, expressed the opinion that the “.Skjellerup” may only be a return of the Divicu Comet of 1816. lie said the parabolic elements of its orbit irom "liiib its path across the heavens is computed for Januarv and February, 1928, indicate the three elements in which Skjellerup resembles Divii-o. Tlic-o are the perihelion distance nods ami inclinations. ’I be more observed position and later elements, namely the Mlipit ones, will decide whether the comets are the same