TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1917, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

*-> - O*- —— [l'Klt PKESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] IMPORTA NT NE W DISCOVER V. WELLINGTON, Sep. 21. Explaining the vote ot £.500 lor research appearing among the Dominion ■Laboratory estimates, tho Hon. G. AV. Russell stated Lhat.it was being placed rtt the disposal of the Dominion 1 analyst |)r .M'Lauriu. and similar officers, who had never had a chance of demonstrating what they could do. That, day he had seen a practical test iii the Dominion Laboratory of research carried out in connection with kauri gum that would be worth, in his opinion, hundreds of thousands of pounds to the people o! New Zealand. When it became public it would be seen that n verv great diseoverv had been made ol tremendous importance to the whole north of Auckland when 1 kauri jorestfl formerly existed, this had been due enlirelv to the work of Goveinmont officers. Half a million sterling would not he too much to spend on scientific research in New Zealand.

FOUND DFAD. NAPIER, Sep. 21. A Maori, aged about thirty-six, was found dead in a: house at Port Ahuriri this morning, hanging from the stairs by a neckerchief. The deceased war, believed to have conic from Opotiki, and was known locally as George. The appearance of the body suggests that he had been dead for three days, lie left a note saving be intended to take his life owing to ill-health.