AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

U.S.A. TRADE. (Per Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). OTTAWA, July 5. Experts regard the revised Canadian trade figures for May as being alarming, and as showing, a big adverse balance with the United States. The Canadians imported from U.S.A. goods valued at eighty-nine and a half millions, and they sold to the United States forty-seven millions’ worth for the twelve months ending May 30th. The figures were equally alarming in 1928. Canada’s exports to U.S.A. that year were 471 million dollars, and her imports from U.S.A. nearly 739 million dollars, the adverse balance for the year being 2574 millions. In 1929 the Canadian exports to the United States were 508 and a quarter millions and the imports 895 millions, the adverse balance being nearly '387 millions, an increase in one year of 1291 millions.

ADMIRAL’S DEATH. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 6. Rear-Admiral Edward Eberle, a retired chief of Naval operations, has died, aged 64. Admiral Eberle’s death resulted from infection which developed over thirty years ago, when he was struck by the tiller of a small boat and his cve-glasses were driven into his right ear.