AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1928, Page 6

AMERICAN ITEMS.

STOCK EXCHANGE. united Press Association—By Electric, Telegraph—Copyright). NEW YORK. Nov. 14. Stock sales to-d • t<; ailed 5,-113,-090 shares. This i Lie third day in succession that the five million mark has been passed and the fourth time in history of the Exchange that tickers wore hopelessly behind the market. .Many issues were pushed into a new high level, hut the market generally was irregular. Cnitod States steel moved again to a new high level of 1.09 with one point increase. NIAGARA’S PASSENGERS. VANCOUVER. November 1 I. Huge batches of mail for the Antipodes delayed the sailing of the Niagara from noon till four. A big party of Australians returning from Europe are- aboard, including 11. R. Mackenzie, Chairman of Auckland Harbour Board. Part of the cargo is general for Australia and New Zealand. DEATH OF OBREGON. ATT EM PT TO KILL ASSAYIN'. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 13. An attempt lias been made on the life of Jose Tora.l, the assassin of General Ohregon, the President-elect. An army captain, a relative of Ohregon .mined access to Toral’s condemned cell and drew a revolver. He was disarmed. He returned borne and committed suicide. CYCLONE IN ARGENTINE. FORTY-ONE PEOPLE KILLED. BUENOS AIR ES. Nov. 13. Forty-one persons are reported to have been killed and 150 injured by a violent cyclone in the vicinity ol Villa Maria, in the province ol Cordoba.

PREFERF.XCE ON WHEAT

NO FXCOriIAOKAIENT FOR

CANADIANS

MONTH E Mi, Nov. ]3

Interviewed to-day, Sir Austen Chamberlain said: “The policy of the Conservative Party is that wherever there is a duty there should ho preference, and at the next elections, 1 am convinced, the party will certainly refrain from proposing any new duties on foods! nils. Ihe idea, theicfore, of any new preference on Canadian wheat must he abandoned, unless

and until a great change comes oyer our people, and unless a large section of another party is convinc'd that such a change is necessary. At the present moment it would he impossible to carry such a proposal.”