TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1919, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

r PKii rar.ss association. — coptuight.] A CANDIDATE. HAWERA, Nov. 5. W. J. McNeill to-day announced that he was a candidate for Parliament as a sane Labourite. | COLD WEATHER . ! HAWERA, Nov. 4. ( Very stormy weather in the last few days, heavy hail showers with high winds. The cold may cause a set-bac 1 ' to the milk production. MILITARYDEFAULTEILS’ LIST WELLINGTON, Nov. 5. Appeals against the inclusion of their names in the Military Defaulters’ List were made at the Magistrate’s Court by Glen and Pollick, who claimed to he religious tfbjectors; William Hughes who admitted having deserted from camp, hut claimed to have been wrongly classified. Alexander Fraser, who protested against further punishment; William Henry, who stated he had broken dowp with lumbago while on lqavfi ,aiid later was afraid to report at canjp; Robert Gould, who claimed to have been wrongly imprisoned. All the appeals were dismissed.

A SAMOAN PROTEST. WELLINGTON, November 5. The Press Association has received the following message by wireless from signed “Crondace,-‘Chairman.” A large and representative public jneeting of British, Allied and neutral citizens here, unanimously passed, the following resolutions, which have been handed to the Administrator: (1) This meeting wishes to emphatically protests against the high-handed action of the authorities hi establishing probation in this territory by military proclamation. Wo claim that if prohibition is necessary here, the residents, are the right ones to decide the question, and should have been consulted, whereas to use the powerful machinery of jqijiarism (impartially obeyed during the war, Jjut now, twelve months after the war has ceased, intolerable) has raised intense indignation and distrust among us, and we urgently insist ttiat such a despotic and utterly uncalled for measure lie withdrawn immediately. (2) That a petition be signed and presented to tile Administrator with a request that he forward it to the proper authorities in New Zealand. (3) That a copy of the petition he ;forwfirded to the Colonial Ofiice, through the High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, Tlie message adds that th© petition jwhich is being eagerly signed, will foriynj’dnd by mail.

| WANGANUI ART EXHIBITION. WANGANUI, November 5. ' The Serjeants Gallery Loam Exliibi- ' tion hero has been so successful that it is t-o remain open another month. Over 10,000 have already visited it, and numerous s-l-n Kaye been effected. The Council intends to hold another Exhibition next year, to which contributikms .are being invited from art centres throughout the world.

» BOXING. , HASTINGS, Nov. o. .‘.‘Jimmy” Clabby of Sydney is nirivipg by the Niagara to meet Jack Hcpn- ' ey, of Gisborne, at Hastings on Novem- ' her 25th, ■ipiWiilH— nfiMtmr- wrinm-n rm