AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1921, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(BY TELEGRAPH—PER TRESS ASSOCIATION] AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WOOL SLUMP. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. Mr F. J. Hagenbarth, President of the National Wool Growers’ Association, told a Senate committee, which is studying the Tariff Emergency Bill, that tbe American wool men were being faced with ruin from foreign competitors. He urged the immediate enactment of a protective tariff to prevent the dumping of foreign wool in the United States. Mr Hagenbarth said that Uruguay wool sold at Boston for 20 cents per pound, while Western American wool only realised nine to fourteen cents, which was less than the cost of production. He declared tjiaa the American growers were liquidating their breeding herds in order to meet expenses.

NAVAL BUILDING. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 6. It is understood Mr Harding is seriously considering the advisability of calling a conference of the powers to consider disarmament, or a limitation of armaments. Mr - Daniels appearing before the House Naval Affairs Committee promised to obtain the best information regarding the attitude of Britain and Japan, towards a discontinuance of their naval building programmes. The committee is meantime holding off mailing a report to the House of Representatives on the pending naval Appropriations Bill. It is understood Chairman Butler will shortly confer with Mr Harding and urge the advisability of taking speedy action respecting disarmament. THE COLOR LINE.

(Received This Day at 10.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 0. A' message from Harlington, Texas, reports a committee of citizens met two Japanese families who arrived to take up land in Rio Grande Yallev, purclia red through a Japanese agent in ' alifornia, and pointed out their presence was not desired, and asked them to leave forthwith. A similar incident occurred earlier in the week. The Japanese departed unprotesting. ' A Sacramento telegram states an act forbidding alien ownership of land and a resolution asking the United States Senate not to make a treaty with Japan weakening the existing anti-Japan-ese law, lias been introduced in California legislature. These measures are the results of reports of a pending Ja-panese-American treaty, which contemplates the naturalisation of Japanese residents in United States.

- AN OBJECTION. (Received This Day at 10.40 a.m.) • NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Congressman Britten has introduced a joint resolution in which Congress declares, its willingness to commit the economic and political dependence of United States to fitters of international ureatv materially limiting naval armaments, thereby 'involving America’s freedom of action for: now iridiseinable. AUSTRALIAN EGGS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 7. Four freight car loads of Australian eggs arrived at Chicago. The entire shipment was sold at fiftynine to sixty cents per dozen, six cents under the wholesale price of local eggs. Tests showed only six eggs bad in 150 dozen. It is announced the venture was so successful that cither shipments will be brought, and the local e gg market is disconcerted. N.Z. LAMB. X (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 7. Hagenbarth, supplementing his testimony to the Senate Committee cabled on sixth, said frozen mutton importations from New Zealand produced a disastrous effect upon America sheepraisers. He declared three million dressed lambs were imported from v —v Zealand since the spring, wliercc ’ a !- lion and three quarters were now in cold storage.