TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Association. — Copyright ' TWO MEN FOUND DEAD. GISBORNE, July 23. Tho police have boon advised front the coast that two men.. Olaf Anderson and Harry Bradley, have been found dead in the bush at Wairongomai Station, about ten milesfrom Tuparoa. Constable Cooper baa gone out to investigate. It is understood that the men had a quarrel last week, and both have died from gunshot wounds. No other details are available. / A MAORI MISSING. GISBORNE, July 23. A MAori named Ratewira Paerua, \ has been missing from Tuparoa since June 15th. Search parties are scour- I ing the district. The man s horse has been found saddled, but the stirrup leathers- are missingpostponed a month. WELLINGTON, July 83. . Owing to the Government Statistician being deluged with applications for certificates of enrolments and notioes by Second Division reservists of change in their condition, it has been decided not to hold the tenth ballot this week, ns originally intended, but to postpone it for four weeks, when a double ballot will bo taken to fill the vacancies in the 34th nnd 3oth Rein- > fooements. j The alteration will make M o difference in the mobilisation and the regular despatch of reinforcements from the Dominion. j a generousTift. WELLINGTON, July 22. On Saturday Messrs Bing, Harris and Co., received advice from Mr. Wolf : Harris to pay out on his behalf the 1 sum of £IOOO for the' relief of soldiers I dependents in New Zealand. Tho money I will be equally distributed between the i four centres. Mr. Harris has made two 1 contributions previously of a like amount for the purpose named. SLY GROG FINES. DUNEDIN, July 24. Jessie Moir, a boardinghouse keeper at Palmerston South, was fined £SO for sly-grog selling. George Wilson, for delivering liquor, having a reasonable ground to suspect it was intended for consumption, was fined £2O. The Magistrate said systematic siygrog selling hpd beep indulged in.