TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.— copyright.]

AN EXPRESS TRAIN SHOT AT

WELLINGTON, October 27.,

Two shot's were fired at the express from Auckland’, on lhuisday night when approaching Fnankton The driver thought a stone was thrown but a small hole perforated * n a £ lass showed that it was •*«■*»»* tn hidle. A passenger has his finger grazed by a bullet, a mark was also found in another carriage. An enquiry is being made, but the probable explanation is that it is thought to he the work of mischievous boys.

A DANNEVIRKE. REQUEST,

DANNEVIRKE, October 27

The Borough Council decided to ask the Boundary Commissioner to make Dannevirke the centre of the new Pahiatua electorate, seeing it had been tho centre of the electorate from which it was just severed for so many, years. Also that the name of the electorate he changed from Pahiatua to Dannevirke.

OBITUARY. AUCKLAND, October 27. Obituary—Mr. William Beelian ex M.L.L. from erysipelas, following poisoning caused by an insect bite.

BREACH OF war. regulation. GREYMOUTH, Tins Day. ] A young man named Pfaff was convicted a 11 *! fmed £5 under the War Regulations for issuing letters intend- * ing to interfere with the proper trad- ! ing of oversea vessels. 3 The letters were found in the posses- ® sion of two seamen who were arrested y and convicted of desertion. The notes were given as recommending the seamen to persons in the Reefton district for employment. The note stated that the seamen were r] leaving and ran away from a ship, a ship publicly stated to be “black,” and connected with the Australian strike. J * The Defence started there was no t> ' intention of doing a wrongful act, but that the letters were given in good 10 faith. That the seamen had been 'legitimately discharged.

In the ease of Palmer who was Eoniencod to one month. ■ for bearding an i oversea vessel by justices, was reheard. | Inspector Cruickshanks in submit! - 1 ing the charge said under the Regulations it must be heard by a Magisstrate, and the ease was reheard, and Mr. Hutchison S. M. reserved hi* decision on the la'w' point whether a second conviction can he given for the same offence.

A SUDDEN. DEATH. ( AUCKLAND, Oct. 29. Father (Michael Tootuey in charge of Ellerslie Parish Church, died suddenly in the street. He had a sudden heart seizure while walking rapidly uphill. A CENTURY OLD. WELLINGTON, Oct. 29. . Mrs John Vile, senr. aged 100 years who arrived in Wellington in the ship Oliver Lang in 185 G, died at Pahitua yesterday. (