TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1919, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

1 I { PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYEIfiT'T. | ! { FINED £2O. j j WANGANUI, March 25. j | At the Magistrate’s Court, J. T. ' Ross, the owner of a river launch, was r fined £2O for allowing the launch to ply for hire, without being in charge of a certificated master or engineer.

AUCKLAND CUTTER JANET. AUCKLAND, March 22. News received by the Talune confirms the report of the wreck of the Auckland cutter Janet, which it is believed struck a reef between Vavau and Kcppeles. The cutter was in charge of Captain Mann, who had a crow of four natives. The passengers were: —Messrs Harris and Cliird, Gallagher and child Johnson, also one native. It- is believ. cd that all perished.

.MOTOR CYCLE FATALITY. CHRISTCHURCH, Marsh 25. At Kaikcura this evening, Harry Ames was-killed by a motor cycle and side car outfit overturning while rounding a' bad bend in the road, on which was a lot of loose shingle. His companion, Harold Jones, well known in the cycle trade, is in the hospital in an unconscious condition.

RETURNED SOLDIERS, CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The executive of the Returned Soldiers Association have expressed approval of the principal of dispensing with the matriculation tes't for returned soldiers, who are desirous of sitting for certain academic distinctions apd urged the Now Zealand University to follow the lead of the English Universities to dispense with, or modify this test for returned soldiers desirous of sitting for these distinctions.

THE TROOPSHIP A JANA. AUCKLAND. March 25. Tlie transport Ajana, with draft No. 224, of returned soldiers, arrived early this morning. She is now undergoing 24 hours’ quarantine, It is expected that the vessel will berth at $.30 o'clock to-morrow morning, A special train, leaving at 4.5 p.m., will convey the men for Wellington and the South Island.

AJANA’S TROOPS LAND. THEIR HEALTH GOOD. AUCKLAND, This Day. Tim A ja lie's troops landed this morning. They are mostly B. Class men, that is, men not quite fit. for active service. They included two hundred who had never been in action. All were walking cases. Corporal Hartnett disappeared on March 19th. The health of flic troops was good, except for an iptcrmitfeut outbreak of mumps. Caijs were made at Norfolk in Virginia, and at Pitcairn Island.

OBITUARY; DUNEDIN, March 25. Dr J. R.. Don, for the past ten years Inspector of vSchools In Otago and formerly rector of the Waitaki Boys' High School at Oanmiu, died last night, aged 58 years. LAKE COLERIDGE POWER. TIM AR U, March 24. . Ministers and the Public Works Department several times promised Mr J Craigie M.P., and the Tiniaru Borough Council, that electric power from Lake Coleridge will be supplied to South Canterbury after the war. The Council to-night received a letter from the Department, indicating that nothing could he undertaken in this direction. No contract had been entered into at present, as it was ini. possible to say when material would be available or to estimate the cost of material and labour when they were available,

The Council resolved to leave no stone unturned to keep the Department to its promises.