TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 January 1914, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[I'ER i'itlSSS ASSOCIATION.] . ~» A SERIOUS MISTAKE. Auckland, This Day. ■ It was reported at a meeting of the Hospital Committee that on December 20th last a lad was admitted, who was suffering , from a virulent affection of the throat, and three nurses contracted the disease, which, in the case of Nurse Keyworth, 21 years of ago, terminated fatally. Another nurse is making a slow recovery, and the third is convalescent. The medical superintendent stated it was one of those unfortunate happenings, which arc bound to occur at times despite every reasonable precaution taken. VOLUNTARY CAMP. Feilding-, This Day. About -350 officers and noncommissioned officers of Wellington district arc in camp on tin Feildiug racecourse for ten days. Major Temperley is in charge, and a programme of hard work hatbeen arranged. Tho. camp is purely voluntary. MINERS RETURN. Auckland, Jan. .K->-After thirteen weeks the Huutl> strike is declared oit". A mass meeting f>l men, wut held to-day and a largo majority voted in favour of resumption. Over three hundred men. ap plied for work, and all must jon the now union.. COALWOIUvER'S DMATII. Wellington, Tin's Day. A man named Tnillonl Vnhv.v son, aged \\[, look jin cpilcplu-Jh

while working on a coal hulk. He was removed to the hospital, where ! he died four hours later. \ FIRES AND OFFENCES. : Invercargill, lliis Day. ! Bush fires have resulted in serious damage to various parts of i Southland. On Tuesday, Kil- I kelly Bros." sawmill, at Sparbush, including the plant and the men's huts was destroyed. Mclutyre's sawmill and shale work buildings at Orepuki also were destroyed, while two residences and other | buildings and crops suffered. j The damage will run into some j thousands of pounds sterling. J Uobert Somorville, chemist, on four charges under the Opium Aei, including , failing to make an entry of purchases of 51b 12ozs of I opium, and failing to take slock or the balance of his opium book, was lined £25 and costs. g— tatatimirJ ■ ■ umajjt