TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

JPER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT]. Wellington, Jan 22 The Imperial Supplies Department, which ia handling commandeered products, is paying out a million sterling per week at present. Christchurch, Jan 24

Mrs Annie Rosa of Gather Street, Spreydon, died suddenly at St Helen s Maternity Hospital. A verdict- of death due to eclampsia was returned. Auckland, Jan 22 Following an announcement by butchers to increase the retail prices of meat in Auckland, despite an intimation by the Board of Trade that the Government is prepared to give them the option of drawing supplies from the Imperial stores and would not sanction any increase in prices, tho president of the Board of Trade now announces that two retail shops under the control of the Government will be opened in Auokland to sell meat for cash without delivery at Id and 2d per lb below the ruling retail prices. The Board is now negotiating for shops and iu the meantime the option to butchers holds good.

Twelve Months for Sedition. Christchurch, Jan 24 E R. Williams, charged on remand with making a seditious speech, Baid be would oppose conscription as long as he had a tongue in his head. He was an internationalist and opposed to war. H 8 would always fight against it. Bailey, S,M. said the defence was clever, but bis speech cams under the regnlations and he would sentence Williams to twelve month?.

Storm Damage Around Gisborne Gisborne, Jan 24 The body of Edgar Arnold Lewis, eged 50, who was washed away in the flood at Tokomaru. Bay, was found yesterday. Wilkins’ wool scouring plant at Waima was completely washed away by the fliod ; also the approaches to the Mongahuhine bridge, recently restored after the previous floods. Waipiro Bay reports that 17 inches of rain fell in 24 hours of the storm.