AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

NEW ZEALANDER’S DIVORCE,

LEGALITY QUESTIONED

United P r es& Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright}.

NEW YORK, July 26

Jones was married to the co-respon-dent Hannah Jones at Chicago to-day. In view of the If act that there is a possibility of the case being taken to the Supreme Court,' it is considered that Jones might find himself a bigamist if that court should reverse the previous decision.

A previous cable stated that at Reno Lloyd Jones, of Sydney, and formerly of New Zealand, was granted a divorce, behind locked doors, by Judge Bartlett. The plea of the wife (a New Zealander) for separate maintenance, was refused. The Judge rejected the evidence that the wife presented of “ another woman.”

NAVAL AGREEMENT

NEW YORK, July 26

Speaking at Portland, Maine, Senator Frederick Hale, Chairman of the Senate Committee of Naval Affairs, declared that he believed the MacDon-ald-Hoover naval agrement to be void until the Senate ratifies it. . Senator Hale said Hoover’s postponement of the cruiser building programme must have the Senate’s approval.

KILAUEA ACTIVE

COLUMNS OF FIRE

HONOLULU, July 26

At Hilo, the volacno Kilauea which began eruption at 6.30 on Thursday morning, is becoming increasingly active. Four craters are emitting .flames; two of them shooting columns of fire two hundred ifeet high.