TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1917, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

[PUR CRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.]

FIREMAN DROWNED.

WELLINGTON, This Day

A shift’s fireman, William Boyle was drowned in the harbour last night. He/ approached the barrier to Glasgow Wharf, while apparently uildor the influence of liquor and walked right to the outer end, and stepped into the harbour. Constable Plaverdv who noticed the man’s action threw a.lifeline to the fireman who made no effort to grasp it. The 'constable then dived into the water and swam to the man, and brought him to the piles, whence the man now unconscious was hauled up to the wharf. A doctor wa's summoned, but efforts at resuscitation were unavailing.

ADULTERATED -MILK

TAUMARANUT, Nov. 13tli

' The Magistrate to-day fined F. Lincoln, milk vendor, £lO for selling milk 14 per cent, below the test, and W. E. ->iile s £IOO for a similar offence, the milk being 25 per cent., below. This was Miles’s fourth conviction.

SWINDLING THE BOOK-MAKER

WELLINGTON, Nov. 13

The bearing of the case in which Fraser, Fitzgerald, and McWilliams are charged with attempting to defraud certain bookmakers, was continued to-day. The Crown case wa s eoneluded, and the defence opened. Fraser gave evidence claiming that the telegrams were not irregular. He did not hear the result of the race till about noon. The reason he did not- tell Fitzgerald the name of the horse was because the dividend might he reduced. He hacked San Sebastian purely on his own judgment.

Fitzgerald [ a;lso gave evidence. Ho was not convinced that there was anything wrong with the telegram. 11 anything was wrong with them, lie was not a party to it. The ease was further adjourned.

PLUCKY ACT REWARDED . , WELLINGTON, Nov. 13th. Sergt. Major Francis Holmes was presented to-night with the Royal Humane Society’s bronze medallion, and certificate, for jumping from a-fast niov ing train on June 26th to the rescue of Private Lake who had fajlen from the platform, he having his leg -severed by fclie wheels of the train. By rendering first aid promptly he saved Lake’s life.

EFFICIENCY BOARD

CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 13

Mr. Frostick, Canterbury Commissioner on the Efficiency Board, who returned from Wellington, states that' last meeting was the most successful it had so far accomplished. Good progress had been made though in what direction be was not, at liberty to say. Mr. Frostick remarked that the local committees were beginning to realise that the hoard was quite a non-poli-tical body. r