TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1918, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[•PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.! MAN FOUND DEAD. DUNEDIN, Sept. 24. George Read, labourer, agent fifty- ' live years, residing at Milburn, was found dead outside his house this inorn 1 ing under circumstances suggesting suicide. j A CORPS PRAISED. j ' NELSON This Day. | Major Sleeman, Director of Military Trainifig, at the conclusion of U< Barracks at Nelson college said the Colleges No 1 platoon was the best-frill-ed platoon he had seen in New Zealand. He also commented very •’avow- : ably on the work of the College artillery section. : OTAGO PROTEST. DUNEDIN, This Uav. The Otago Branch of tile A.S.lt. has passed a resolution condemning Mr 1 Mock’s action in contesting the Wellington Centrral, ns an Independent La- , hour candidate and calling upon him to 1 resign has position as general-secretary o/ tiie Society. ! A PECULIAR CASE. DANXEVIRKE, This Day. A somewhat unusual case was heard ■ before Air Dyer 3.M., in which Sydj ney AT. Alead was charged with wil- | fully deceiving the Government StatuI tician respecting the number of his J children. Alead first gave the number !as 3 and subsequently four. Investigai tioiis elicited the .fact that he had three ; legitimate and one illegitimate child. ; The last, named, the defendant alleged had been taken by his wife, to ho brought up as a twin brother of her ! last horn child, both legitimate and j illegitimate having arrived about the ! same time. Defendant, however, was not supporting his wife and three legI itimnte children, but was living with ' another woman. He has now bem put ! into Class A of the Second Division. | Hi- contended lie acted in all good 1 faith, being of the opinion that the illegitimate had been legally adopted. I-Ie was lined £lO 0 r two months, the Magistrate informing the defendant that lie was living like a beast.

KILLED BY MOTOR-CAR. HAMILTON, September 25. Adam Fort, a middle-aged watchmaker and jeweller, was knocked down hv a motor-car yesterday. His skull was fractured and lie died at the hospital last night ■

• A FATAL ACCIDENT. DUNEDIN, September 25. Eileen Julia Downie, 14 years of ago whose parents reside «t- Alelbournc Street, South Dunedin, wa s fatally injured in Findlay’s Blouse and S-virt Factory this afternoon. She was tound with her hair wound round a macuine other than the one at which she was working. Her scalp wa s torn off and her neck dislocated. Death occurred on the way to the hospital. SELF INFLICTED. , DUNEDIN, September 25. At an inquest on the body of George Read who was found dead at Milburn yesterday, the evidence indicated that deceased had placed some gelignite under his arm, the explosion causing .atal injuries. A verdict wa s returned Hat death was due to injuries self-inflicted while deceased was in an unsound state of mind. GALLIPOLI SKETCHES.

WELLINGTON, September 25. Sapper Moore-Jones some time ago offered the New Zealand Government h,is series of Gallipoli sketches for £IOOO, the artist to have the right to publish reproductions, hut the Government decided not to buy them. The question of purchase by the Government has been raised again, but too price asked now is £ISOO. It is understood that an offer lias been madi from a private source to subscribe but. the cost of the pictures. The Government has not come to a decision on tins later proposal.

BIGAMISTS .SENTENCED

WELLINGTON, September 26. \t the Supreme Uourt Ernest TTon- ' r ; Mt-Kay, for bigamy, at Christchurch, was sentenced to reformative treatment for a period not exceeding two vears, Ernest William Groves also for bigamy also received three years r<f(f-illative treatment. Frederick James Blandford Bennett, theft of moni oV received two years reformative> » lament. Philip Trevor Liddy, forgei > mi cl uttering in connection with thS wrongful use of -a soldiers’ railway ‘ ticket was sentenced to probation foi twelve months.