TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1917, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

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PRICE OF KEROSENE

WELLINGTON, eSptember 11

In the House to-day Mr. McCombs stated that he had received a telegram from a Wanganui trades unionist stating that kerosene in that town was 24s a case. Mr. McCombs asked the Prime Minister whether he would have this matter referred to the Board of Trade* for consideration and report.

Mr. Massey said he would refer the matter to the Board of Trade, but he thought he was justified in saying that the Government were making arrangements for the supply of kerosene for this country from America.

A FILM TO BE CALLED. IN

WELLINGTON, September 11

The Minister of Internal Affairs states that the photo Film Play, “The Taking of Stingaree,” which was mentioned in the course of a prosecution of juveniles in Auckland last week, was one of the plays which was on circuit when the censorship was established last year. Instructions have now* been given that the picture is to be called in at once.

A TRAGIC DEATH

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 12

Mrs. Jessie Johnstone, an elderly woman, died suddenly at Waltham on Tuesdav evening, under somewhat unusual circumstances.

Mrs. Johnstone lived with her son-in-law, Mr. P. J. Chapman, at 61, Shakespeare Road. About midnight, Miss Edith Chapman, Mr. Chapman’s sister, thought that she heard some person at a' window. She went to investigate with a lighted candle, and the light came in contact with the window curtain, which immediately was in a blaze. Some parts of the burning curtain lodged under the bed in the room and set fire to the bod clothes. The Fire Brigade attended, and the fire was soon extinguished. Mrs. Johnstone, who was fifty-five years of age, had been suffering from heart disease, and the excitement brought on an attack. Dr. Crooke had been attending her, and was sent for, but by the time ho arrived she had succumbed

At the inquest held yesterday afternoon by Mr. T. A. Bailey, District Coroner, after medical evidence had been given by Dr. Crooke, the Coroner returned a' verdict that death was duo to heart failure.

A MOTOR FATALITY. WELLINGTON, This Day. Gordon Challis, a boy of six, was killed by a motor car in Molosworth street last night while crossing the road. The motorist- is said to have done his beat to the child and crashed into a verandah, but the boy was picked up unconscoius and died later.