TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1918, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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R EQUISITIONIN G PAYMENTS

WELLINGTON, July 10. The Imperial Supplies Department reports the following payments made under the Requisitioning schemes to date: Frozen meat. £27,343,383; Cheese £4,546,102; Butler £2,777,476; Scheolite £108,241; AYool £24,522,616; Sheepskins £929,931; Hides £704,577; Slipe Wool £2,784,950; Other business £l,189,971; Total £09,120,582. THE 3UGO-SLAVS. TAUALYRUNUI July 10. ill is reported ftfom Alatiere that the 43 Jugo-Slavs again struck work on the Stratford line, refusing the piecework system. The police isssued a native to the. men, under new regulations, giving them till noon on Thursday to decide. TELEGRAPH LINE INTERRUPTED. ON EAST COAST. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Telegraph Department is again dependent on tho West. Coast route foi communication with the North Island, a fault occurring yesterday on the East Coast line on the Cheviot route.

CHARGES DENIED

AUCKLAND, This Day. Major Gunson, replying to tho cabled statement by a Wimmern passenger, says it is absolutely incorrect, as regards the treatment of the survivors both in tho north and at Auckland. BURNT AT SEA. SAILING SHIP “INVERNESS.” AUCKLAND, This Day. The crow of the British sailing ship, Inverness, which was burned at sea, and abandoned on April 24th, have arrived hero by an island steamer. No lives were lost. The fire was caused by spontaneous combustion in the eoa’ loaded at a South African port. One of the boats’ crew were adrift for eight days. The survivors reached Papeete, and were cared for by the British Consul.