AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

By Telegraph—Press Assu., Copyright. FARMING NEWS. OTTAWA, Feb. 14. Mr Edwards, Conservative, stated in the House that the Australian Treaty brought about a decrease in Canadian butter production. The ten million pounds imported from Australia and New Zealand in one year would develop five thousand Canadian mixed farms. Since the 'Treaty Canada’s effective exportable surplus of twenty-four million pounds had been replaced by an annual importation of ten million pounds. The farmers were beginning to feel the effect on the price of cheese. Mr Adshead, Labourite, said he had informed his rural constituents that if they could not compete with their Empire neighbours ten thousand miles away, they had better go out of business. The Canadian farmer was exporting more than the country was importing, because lie could get more money outside the Dominion. SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC. HONOLULU. Feb. 15. The steamship President Cleveland is expected here from the Far East to-morrow with eight dead aboard, due to an epidemic of smallpox and pneumonia raging among the passengers. Most of the deaths are in the steerage. PNEUMONIA DEATH ROLL. NEW YORK, Eeh. 1(5. A message from the steamer President C leveland (cabled on loth heb.) reports sixteen are now dead, mostly from pneumonia. SAX FRANCISCO. Feb. 1(5. Sixteen Filipinos died ot pneumonia aboard the steamer President Cleveland, arriving at Honolulu on Thursday from Manilla. There are fifteen other pnuemonia cases and one of smallpox among five hundred Fillipinos en route to work on Hawaaiin sugar fields. MEETING BY RADIO. NEW YORK, Feb. Id. American and British engineers meeting simultaneously at New York and London held a joint session by means of the radio telephone.