TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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SUPREME COURT

CHRISTCHURCH, August 25

Henry Matthews, convicted of assault on a boy were sentenced to fivo years imprisonment. David Courtney and Ivanhoc Price, convicted of robbery from the person were sentenced to two years and eightteen months respectively. OBITUARY. AUCKLAND, August 26. Obitiiary—William Lane editor of the “New Zealand Herald.” Mr. Lane 'was one of the best known journalists in Australasia. He was aged 56 and was born at Bristol England, AMERICAN NEWS. AUCKLAND, Aug. 27. . The general dislocation on the \ aneouver waterfront, was recently caused by a striko of wharf labourers. Tlie trouble began on July 30th, and after an anxious week, in which there were .instances of violence being used by strikers, tlie men went back to work on Aug. sth. That evening the activifcv of the port was fully resumed. A N leading officer of the I.WAV Frank Little, was taken from his lodginghouse at 3.30 a.m., by masked men, and hanged to a.railroad trestle on the outskirts of the city.

After searching the lodging-house, six men found Little, and carried him into a waiting automobile IT,is body was-discovered by tho police at eight o’clock A card on the body bore the figures 3-7-77, an old sign of the Vigilantes in Montana.

Montana messages indicate that tho lynching 1 was duo to the wrath of citizens at I.W.W operations in connection with the strike.

DUNEDIN CATHOLICS

DUNEDIN, Aug 27

At a crowded meeting at St. Joseph’s Hall last night, it was resolved That this mooting of Catholics of St Joseph’s Cathedral Parish on patriotic and religious grounds enter their most emphatic protest against any of their priests, religious teachers, and theological students being, called upon to render military service during the present lamentable war.

Tt was resolved to call upon tbo Government to so amend the Military Service Aet so ns to secure the exemptions asked for

ENLISTED UNDER. AGE.

PALMERSTON N., This Dny

A youth was charged at the Magu. trato’s Court this morning with giving his wrong age in order to enlist. was convicted, hut no fine was imposeu.

Major McDonnell said a number of similar cases has- cost the Government a lot of money through their parents asking for the Tclcase of their sons some of the young men having got as far as ‘England. No fine was asked for, but the Department wanted the present case to be a lesson to young men tempted to enlist under the miliary age. A FATAL FALL. Received this day at 2.36 p.m.,) PALMERSTON N., This Day. A young man named Liddicoat, married, had a fall from a baker’s cart at Otaki, railway station, his injuries having a fatal termination.