TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1919, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

1 (CEB CRESS ASSOCIATION. —OOPYBIOFT. | ! WELLINGTON AVATERSIDERS. j WELLINGTON, Alarch 27. j Alatters in connection with the negotiations that are proceeding between 1 the Watersiders’ Federation and the Shipowners’ Federation on the subject of increased wages aiid better conditions were considered by a stop-work meeting of the Wellington AVaterside Workers’ Union to-day. i A report oil the subject was received from the Unions’ representatives. I The members present were unanimous in the opinion that tliere was an unnecessary delay in the arrajngementof a meeting between the Shipowners’ Federation and the Employees’ representatives.

FIRE AT HASTINGS

HASTINGS, Alarch 25,

: Tlfe Elms, a twelve-,roomed twoitoried residence owned and occupied by Joseph Truman, was reduced to ashes at 3 o’clock this morning. The building was thirty years old. The flames spread with alarming rapidity, barely affording time for Air Truman and his wife and two children, in their night, attire, to escape from an upstairs bed-room. The fire is supposed to have been started by sparks from the sitting-room grate. The furniture and other contents of the house were all destroyed. The insurances are: On the building, £IOOO in tlip New Zealand office, furniture and effects, £SOO in the Atlas office. The owner values the buildings at £2OOO and the furniture at £IOOO.

DEATH TO KEAS

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day

A Conference of station holders in the high country was held to-day, to discuss steps necessary to destroy Keas. The speakers agreed that the ravages of the birds were bcomihg increasingly serious. Instances were given, where sheep were killed as low as 790 feet above the sea level, and it is feared the birds might take possession of the whole country. The meeting resolved to ask the Government to declare Keas noxious birds, and give a grant of 5/- per head for killing then ; also that it should*be compulsory for Councils to employ men for killing the birds.

SHIPPING. DUNEDIN, This Day. Arrived.—At 9 a.m. Ngakuta from Newcastle.

. ALLEGED THEFT. MASTER TON, This Day. Reginald Joseph Devonshire, was committed for trial on a! charge of alleged theft of money amounting to £771, the property of the Bank of Australasia.