TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1919, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

! j ' l*lilt IMIKSS- ASSOCIATION. —COrVDIGHT.j AUCKLAND CItIMJLISrAI/ SESSIONS. AUCKLAND, September 8. At the Supreme Court, Arthur Kennedy, charged with carnal knowledge of a ten-year old child, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour. AYitu Slade, on a charge of indecent assault at Whangaroa was sentenced to four years’ reformative treatment

j WELFARE LEAGUE. j AUCKLAND, September 8. ! A public meeting was held in the ; Town Hall by the Welfare League tonight, when an address was delivered by Mr C. P. Skerrctt, K.C., of Wellington, Dominion president of the League. Among the large audience was a large representation of and Mr Skerref t was subjected to considerable heckling from this section. The speaker outlined the aims of the League and criticised the. Labour leaders. He was recorded a vote of thanks.

PLENTY OF RAILWAY COAL. CHRfISTGHURCH, Sept. 0. It is stated that the Railawy Department has now good supplies of coal on hand at ail the depots in Canterbury. It is stated also that big quantities are arriving constantly. At the present time, indeed, it is stated that the amiunt of coal on hand here is probably in excess of what it is in normal times.

MILITARY TRAINING. WANGANUI, September 8. A meeting of the Wanganui Council of Churches liehl to-nigbt resolved: “That this meeting recognises the sincerity and honesty of purpose of the Defence Minister in his new proposals L;i the military training of youths of eighteen years of age in camp for four months, hut we consider that the proposal will not be in the best interests of the young men of the Dominion, morally and economically. We therefore trust that cither the system of training in vogue before the war, or some other system will bo adopted as the defence system of our Dominion.” DEATH AT SEA. AUCKLAND, September 8. While on the voyage from New York to Auckland, and four days before reaching port, a seaman on the steamer Austral Plain fell from aloft and died of injuries received. 110 was buried nr sea. .

MOTOR CYCLE FATALITY. I[A WFiUA, September 8. A young married man, John Fullers, blacksmith, of Frederick street, Wellington, while motor-cycling from Wellington to TTawera on August 28th., mot with an accident near Unworn, and subsequently was admitted to the hospital, where he died. He leaves a widow and five children. At the inquest a verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony, which showed that Fullers succumbed to a scalp wound.