AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Australian Press Assn.—United Service BANDIT RAID. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 27. Advices from Louisville (Kentucky) state that machine gun bandits turned a stream of lead upon twenty-two gamblers in a fishing camp casino. They wounded four players and escaped with £4OOO. firing from a motor car as they fled. TRADE AGREEMENT. I HAVANA, Aug. 27. Insistent rumours state that Canada proposes to retire its diplomatic representative in Cuba, because of differences arising out of Cuba’s refusal to endorse proposed concessions for Canadian interests under the projected commercial treaty.

OTTAWA. Aug. 27. There is no confirmation of the Havana rumours that Canada is dissatisfied with the progress of the negotiations for a renewal of the trade agreement. MINER MIGRANTS IN CANADA. VANCOUVER, Aug. 27. “British miner-harvesters in Canada have a fighting chance to succeed, and the old country is thankful for the opportunity presented them,” so Mr -Ramsay MacDonald told a delegation of Labour supporters on Sunday. Referring to the political setback of Labour in the British Columbia elections, he said that closer contact should be established between the Labour Party in Canada and that in the Motherland.

AUSTRALIA FETED. NEW YORK, August 2(5. A message from Poston istates that thousands of men, women and children to-day visited the cruiser Australia. The officers attended the Trinity Church in the morning and lunched at the Brookline Country Club. Admiral Hyde and his staff went to Deverly Farm as guests of the British Summer Embassy. They will he received at a dinner tonight W Rear-Admiral Andrews. Adm<ral Hyde omitted the scheduled visit .o the Mayor’s office. Mayor Niehcils was absent, and asked ac-ting-Maye-” Green to extend hospitality of the «_*y to the visitors in his stead.

A representative of Admiral Hyde answered Mr Green’s question of the Australian Admiral’s apparent indifference, by stating that the Australia had been so delayed by fog that Admiral Hyde was unable to follow the expected programme.

U.S.A. DEFICIT. • FORECASTED FOR. CURRENT YEAR WASHINGTON. August 27. rhe Director of the Rudget. Mr Lord, has submitted that, in his estimation the U.S.A. Treasury would • suffer a deficit of 94,279,340 dollars in ■1929. This deficit is the first one that | definitely has been forecasted since the war. It is due to increased governmental expenditures, and decreased tax | collections. The variance in this estimate from those made earlier is due to increased plans for the activities eff the government bureaux, and lower receipts than expected from most of the incoming sources. Increases are shown in the general expenditure, also a postal deficiency. The expenses of the Shipping Board, the Government Life Insurance Fund, the Alien Property Fund have fallen. The customs and internal revenue receipts have decreased considerably.