TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1919, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

,PK« PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT. I EFFECT OF GO SLOW POLICY. WELLINGTON, Ooober 7. Another statement supplied to Mr Massey by the New Zealand* Coal Mine Owners Association, shows .that the shortage in output from tho mines consequent on the go slow policy, for the week just ended is as follows: Taupiri, 1760 tons. Westport, 1600 ton 6. Westport-Stockton, 1030 tons. Blackball 803 tons. Hikurangi 692 tons i Pukemiro, 646 tons Paparoa, 303 tons. Waipa, 275 tons. Nightcaps 242 tons N.Z. Coal and Oil Company, 102. Total, 7460 tons. In addition, the reduction at the State mines is estimated at 1000 tons.

RETURNED SOLDIERS ASSOCIATION.

AUCKLAND, This Day.

-At a meeting of the Auckland R.S.A. Mr J. Lee moved a motion of no-con-fidence in the executive on the ground that support of political action was disrupting the Association throughout New Zealand. After a stormy discussion Lee’s motion was lost on tlie voices.

A motion was carried endorsing the action of the Auckland Association provincial committee in the stand taken against headquarters.

LABOUR CANDIDATE. DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr W. S. Maslin, a farmer, is the selected Liberal candidate for Clutha. BUTCHER’S SUGGESTION. DUNEDIN, This Day.. James Wright, one of Dunedin's : butchers made a speech at Burnside yards advocating that butchers get permits from Government to buy stock from freezing works and thus help to meet the cost of living. First class wether mutton could he bought at the works for 30/- per 601 b. carcase. ANTI-SHOUTING LAW. THAMES, October 3. David Kemp, barman at the Exchange Hotel, was fined £5 and costs £8 for a breach of the anti-shouting ■ law*. The licensee it was shown, had exercised all precautions, and the information against him was dismissed. Two returned soldiers for four years , said they had heard of anti-shouting in a vague way in England, but thought it was a dead letter. They were convicted and discharged! i SOLDIERS DECORATED. AUCKLAND, This Day. I 'The Governor-General at Government House this morning, held an investiture of' Aucklanders, decorated for services during the war.

! A CHURCH MATTER. 1 CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. 1 A sitting of the Bishops Court was held to-day, in connection with the St ' Michael ritualism charges. Rev. E. E. JPerry, 'Vicar ijn a signed appear— Perry, vicar, in a signed declaration submitted .to tbe Judgment of the Court of Appeal and acknowledged lie was in ! error. He declared that he would in ; the future conform to the Book of Com- ■ mon Prayer.

j Bishop Julius said 'Rev. Perry had withdrawn the statements of doctrine, complained of, and condemned and having retracted, there came an end to the . matter of an error in the doctrine. In regard to the errors in practice, Rev. Perry had undertaken to conform to the desire of the Church. He had admonished Rev. Perry, and with bis promise and declaration, was content. He declared the matter to he at an end. j TAINUI ENQUIRY.

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The inquest on the Tainui victims was resumed to-day. Frederick John Needham, manager of coastal shipping of the New Zealand Refrigerating Coy., gave evidence that it was part of his duty to see the vessel was kept in proper repair. Tlie last inspection was made on the occasion of the annual overhaul in March. Witness detailed the construction of tlie vessel.

Continuing, Needham said he did not know at the time of the survey that the amended regulations were in fodee, requiring a certificate of fitness of a vessel to carry petroleum. The Tainui had carried 30,000 cases benzine since March 1917.

A TWO-UP SCHOOL,

DUNEDIN, October 3,

At the Police Court to-day seven men were convicted of playing “two-up” on a recent Sunday. Two. men who bad been, previously convicted were fined £5, and five others £3 each.

THEFT OF MAIL BAG

WELLINGTON, October 2.

A married men, Wilfred Fry, a member of the draft which returned by the Cordoba troopship, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court to the theft of a mail bag and contents while tlio vessel was four hours’ steam from Wellington Heads. 'Hie bag and its contents were thrown overboard. Fry was committed to l the Supreme Court for sentence. FOUND DEAD. AUCKLAND, October 2. Rowland Bell, aged thirty-nine, who bad been arrested for drunkenness, died in the police station cell, presumably from consumption ir heart disease.

A FATAL FALL.

DUNEDIN, October 2,

James Parker, thirty-five years of ago a single man; fell from a haystack at Tuapeka Mouth last week, and a fork which he was holding inflicted a wound in is groin. Paarker died in the 1 Dunedin Hospital to-day. ANOTHER FALL. DUNEDIN, October 2. Alexander Murray, sixty-eight years of ago, of Port Chalmers, died in the Dunedin Hospital from a fractured skull, which, it is understood, was tho | result of a fall from a vehicle.