TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1917, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

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QUESTION OK ALIENS

AUCKLAND, Nov. 12,

Tlie attitude of the Government regarding war service by aliens in the Dominion was referred to by the Minister of Defence who said that the Government would be very glad to do all it could to assist aliens to get to the front if they were naturalised.

Regarding those who were not naturalised, but loyal to-the Allies, the Government- would be glad to help them (b reach the front- and fight with their own people. The .Minister held a private conference on Saturday evening with the .’Jugo-Slavs, and matters discussed will he laid before the Cabinet.

| MEDICAL PROFESSION. | AUCKLAND, Nov. 12. ' Legislation was brought down last session affecting the relation of the medical profession and the war. TheHoii. G. W. Russell stated that the Public Health Department would have to make the best of tlie position possible for the supply of practitioners for the depleted districts. He thought that the balance was being maintained, and that the full number of men likely to be drawn from the medical profession had how been readied. The doctors returning would probably he equal during the remainder of the. war to the number taken from practice for military purposes.

SHOT HIMSEUF MAP,TON This Day. Walter Geo. Williams, single aged .'l4 a fiaxmill hand shot himself with a revolver on Saturday. v,e was removed to Palmerston Hospital where he died yesterday. He has relatives at Bulls and Wanganui.

ADVANCE IN RAILWAY FARES TVKLLJNGTOX, Nov. 12. A considerable advance in railway fares is stated to be probable shortly as a result of the railways being called upon to find from revenue the money required for payment of the war bonus to members of the service.

CHEATING- A BOOKMAKER. WELLINGTON, Nov. V>. The trial of Frederick Campbell Fraser, John Edward Fitzgerald, and 'John McWilliams on charges of attempting to obtain £975 from Henry Martindale and others, by false pretences, was commenced to-day. The evidence so far brought forward is merely on the lines that were heard in the town court case. It is not expected to finish before Wednesday.