TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

j [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] . A FATAL KICK. INVERCARGILL, Dec. 17. Albert Woods, ten years of age, while endeavouring to head off horses from the road to a paddock at Myross, was kicked in tho region of the heart, and died twenty minute s afterwards. A SUTCIDE. WELLINGTON. Dee. 17. Corporal Percy S TTobhs, in charge of tho post office at Papawai Camp, was founj~ dead in the office on Saturday, with a pea rifle between his knees and a bullet wound in .the forehead. ITo was twenty years of age. SUNDAY TRADING. WELLINGTON. Dee. 17. Mr. S. E. McCarthy, S. M.. delivered judgment to-day in the cases in which proprietors of marble bars were charged with Sunday trading. His Worship said the majority of the Sunday customers wore residents of Wellington, and shops eould not lawfully be kept open to satisfy the whims and caprices of those who eould supply themselves. A fine of £1 was imposed in each case.

BRANCH RAILWAY OPENED. WELLINGTON, This Day. A branch railway between Okahunc and Raetihi was opened yesterday by the Premier, the formal ceremony at Ohakune being witnessed by a large crowd of people. A crowded train loft Ohakune for Raetihi, where the Ministerial party were warmly welcomed. Mr. Massey congratulated the settlers on the completion of-'the line which will lay the development of the timber industry and the opening up of a' laygo area of fine pastoral and agricultural country. ROUGH AVEATUER. GISBORNE This Day. Tn consequenec of the south-easterly storm, the AraKura, which left Napier on Monday night, lias not yet landed her passengers, but is expected to do so to-night as also will the Monowai. The Araliura sheltered in Tolga Bay last night. The seas damaged the Tolcomarn Bay wharf.