TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

Per Press —</opyright j THE TRAM NATALITY. r c ROTORUA, Tin s Day, f The soldier killed by the train yester- v day has been identified-as Joseph Cart- j wright of Paparoa,North, Auckland. 1 THAMES JUBILEE, AUCKLAND August 8. The Jubilee of the first miner’s right was celebrated at tho Thames by a dedication service ana conver- . snzione at tho Town Hall this aiteinoon and a concert in the evening. HAWKE’S BAY PIONEER. -NAPIER This Day. I Obituary—George Prior Donnelly a Pioneer and sportsman aged seventy . years. He arrived in the Dominion in. 1863 and settled in Hawke’s Bay in 1867. He was a large land owner and prominent in local Government. | His last public act was the settlement of twenty-four returned soldiers on ono_ of bis estates at Ivaiwaka seventeen .miles north Napier. | ; The last surviving member of the fam ' ily is Mrs, Perry his only daughter, j THE DUNPHY CASE. i CHRISTCHURCH August 8. ! The hearing of the charges agains*. Wiliatn Dunphy was continued to-day ( but the case is still unfinished. Counsel will address the Court to-morrow.

BURNED TO DEATH. . MAORI WOMAN 100 YEARS OLD. GISBORNE, This Day. At Tplago, Leini Rangi, a Native woman, aged 100 years, was burned to death. She had been sleeping in a tent and was left with a candle burning. Next morning the charred remains of the tent were-found, the woman’s body lying just beyond the circle of fire. BRTG ADIER- GENERAL KILLED. WELLINGTON. This Day. News has been received that Brigad-ier-General Earl Johnston, eldest son of the Hon. O. J. Johnston, speaker of the Upper House, wa 3 hilled by a sniper in France,

medical esaminatioin OF SECOND DIVISION. WELLINGTON This Day Sir Jainos Allen replying to a press man’s questions as to whether any definite arrangements had been made for the early medical examination of the Second Division members said he had not yet received a reply from the Medical Association as to whether it can sup ply twenty doctors for tho purpose. Until he received this reply ho could make no announcement. FINED £IOO. AUCKLAND, This> Day. At the Police Court William Ryan, - bookmaker, was fined £IOO for betting on licensed premises. Mr. Fraser S.M. said where. a ; bookmaker had a reputation for honesty and square dealing, he did not believe in imposing imprisonment. Defendant, however, had got to the stage when he must expect to be fined the maximum every time he was eaught. DEATH OF CENTENARIAN. AUCKLAND, Tluy Day. Mrs Margaret Jackson has died m Auckland. She was 101 years and four months old.