TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ALLEGED LIBEL CLAIM* BY AN EDITOR. (Recoived, This Day at 8.50. a.ip.) MASTERTON, July 17. - A wx-it claiming £luX) damages has been issued by Arthur H. Vile, editor of the “Wairarapa Age,” against the “Wairarnpa Daily Times,” for alleged libel contained in an article published by the latter on July 11th. Sir John Findlay K.C. is acting for plaintiff. . , AN OVERDUE VESSEL. DUNT2DIN, July 16. Some anxiety is being felt in shipping circles concerning the, whereabouts of one of the Union Company’s large cargo steamers. The vessel left a New Zealand port some months ago. She was due at her destination over a fortnight ago, and although efforts have been made to get into touch with the steamer by wireless, no tidings have been rooeived as to her possible whereabouts. Other steamers of tho .Union Company’s Floet have been instructed by wireless to keep a sharp look-out fori her. The steamer (the name of which j cannot bo mentioned) may possibly have met with an accident to her machinery. THE GAS STRIKERS.

GUILTY OF SEDITIOUS STRIKE. 11 WELLINGTON, July 18. to Giving judgment to-day in the case of 17 gas workers and; stokers charged with taking part in a seditious strike Mr. McCarthy S.M. found they were j liable under the War Regulations and convicted them but as the offence waa'j committed under a bona fide belief _ i that they were acting legally, the ends' e of justice would he best served by giving them one week to consider their *■ position. 1 FALURE TO ENROL. FINE OF £SO. DUNEDIN, July 18. Albert James Hern was charged in the Police Court this morning with failing to make an application for ©ne rolment in tho First Division. The defendant said' h© filled in the form and posted it in 1915 but received jio reply and last year he called at the Post Office, and filled in another form and posted it. The Magistrate said that the onus was on defendant to show that he had made application for enrolment. He had! taken no steps to find out what happened to his application or to see whether his name was on the First DivisionThe defendant was fined £SO. OIL SHIP BURNT. AUCKLASD, July . 16. The four-masted schooner Elaine May, loaded with kerosene and benzine, was destroyed by fire in Suva Harbour on June 2nd. ' The fire was caused by an explosion resulting from the Fijian watchman striking a match close to the hatch. The watchman jumped overboard and swam ashore. PATRIOTIC FUNDS. . • WELLINGTON, July 16. The Wellington branch of tho Women Teachers’ Association considered a resolution forwarded hv the Women’s National Council protesting against such methods as carnivals, art unions and all forms of voluntary taxation for raising money for the relief of soldiers and their dependents. The Council regarded such means as inadequate, objectionable, wasteful and unfair to tho j general public, who did not need to be ! bribed to do their duty. It also‘was to the soldiers themselves ancl their relatives, and the council considered properly graduated taxation .of wealth tho most equitable and suitable means of raising money for this object. The Women Taechers’ Association endorsed the resolution, and expressed tho opinion that-earnivals, art unions, etc., for raising money, had a very had influence upon children.