TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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35'th’s MOBILISATION

WELLINGTON, October 16

The mobilisation of the 3'sth Reinforcements began to-day at Trentham and Featherston. A /arge body «i Canterbury men were the first infantry to' enter tho camps. Otagoans go to-morrow, and the Wellington and Auckland drafts on Thursday and Friday respectively.

YOUNG AND HOWELL’S APPEAL.

WELLINGTON, October 16

I Tb e appeal of W. T. Young tend J. } C. Howell against their recent convie- ) tion for inciting a seditious strike in connection with the coastal shipping trouble is fixed for hearing on Saturday next-. ALIENS ON SHIPS AND WHARVES WELLINGTON, October 16. Notice is given of the enforcement on the Wellington wharves of the war Regulations regarding employment of aliens on oversea, steamers as from Monday next, after which no alien of anv race, even if naturalised, will be employed. WATERED MILK. WELLINGTON, October 15. Bertha Walls, dairy farmer, was fined £25 for selling milk icontaining water. STEAMER. HELD UP. AUCKLAND, This Dav. Tin- steamer Awahou has been delayed since Iq o’clock last night, loin- ! deck hands having left after giving ! twenty-four hours’ notice, without giv- j ing a reason. So fa'r tho agents have been unable to fill their places. Tho Awahou is a vessel having only one seaman on the watch. PIGEON SHOOTING. TAUMAR-UNUI, October 16.

Tn the Magistrate’s Court Louis Meads, of Raetihi, was fined £ls and costs for shooting Native pigeons out of season ,in Tongariro National Park. Two half-castes for siimfilar offences were fined £lO and £5 respectively.

THE POST OFFICE COMMISSION

AUCKLAND, October 16

A large meeting held under the Huispices of alio Protestant Political Association to-night- passed a resolution protesting against the finding of the Past Office Commission in that it was against the weight of evidence, and that the evidence disclosed that the censorship on Box 942- was unwarrantable and that the censorship operated in the interests of the Roman Catholic Church. Tlie meeting also protested' against the refusal of Cabinet- to appoint a Supreme Court Judge to conduct the enquiry and demanded that the Government should immediately remove the censorship from Box 912. SUPPLY OF SHIPS. WELLINGTON October 14. Questioned regarding the shipping supply for 'overseas Mr. Massey states —“We cannot look far forward but tho shipping outlook between now and the middle of December is good. But for the fact that there still arc large quantities of meat- in store it. could he regarded as very good indeed. IMPERIAL GUNNER! MTSSTNO.

DUNEDTN, Oct. 15.—Samuel Croggan. an Imperial gunner on board, a steamer at- Port Chalmers, has been missing since 11 p.m. on Saturday. Tbe watch on an adjacent steamer heard a splash , about 11.30. Oreggan’s clothes were found on the vessel.

ENEMY ALIEN FIRMS

WELLINGTON, Oct- 15.—A Gazette j a Eixty-aordikiary contains additions -to 1 r l the list of firms and persons declared C enemies under the War Regulations, - also tho names of sonic removed froni ' the list. ■ ii.i— 1