TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1918, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[PER TRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] SALE OF STUD SHEEP. MASTER TON, Jan. 21. \' Record prices were obtained at the sale of W Perry’s Penrose Bomn6y and Lincoln stud rams and flock ewo held on the Mastciton Showgrouds to-day. In Romney rams, Quinton Donald, of Featherston, paid 290gns. for a oneshoar ram, - a record for Now Zealand. William Raynor, of Mas tom ton, bought a 0110-shear Romney ram at 280gns., u;hile Field of Gisborne gave 250gns., and R. M. Patterson, of Wakatipu, 201) gus for one-shear Romney rams. A SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, Jan. 25th.

The body of a mail, anchored to the bottom with an iron cog-wheel, was recovered from the harbour near Hobson Street. Wharf to-day by a diver. U is beleivod to be that of John Jones, aged 17. a former Harbour Board employee, who disappeared in November, while awaiting his trial on a charge of threatening behaviour. '

A FATAL ACCIDENT. PALMERSTON N. Jan. 25 A youth named Robertson was killed at the dairy factory at Glen Oroun tills morning. He became entangled in some shafting, and was carried up to the coiling, which he struck with considerable force, sustaining fatal in jurats. He had been employed at the factory for only tl'Voe days.

BOY DROWNED. DUNEDIN. Jan. 25,

Alan Alexander Campbell, aged HI, was drowned’ while bathing on the beach at Nugget Bay yesterday. Miss Quinn, who was bathing with the lad made heroic efforts to save lfim. Hie boy’s fatheris 1 -manager- of the National Bank at Core.

A PPOTNTME NT OF. TEACHERS DUNEDIN, Jan. 24. At the meeting of the Otago Education Board to-day, exception was taken to a resolution carried at the recent meeting of the Educational Institute in Wellington urging the selection and ap pointment of teachers by the Department in Wellington. Several speakers condemned departmental methods, and urged that the Boards and tho School Committees representing the parents, had a right to a voice in the appointment of teachers and of education. A resolution setting forth that any curtailment of the powers of hoards and committees in the appointment of teach ers would bo strongly resented, and to place the Board’s views before the Mill-