TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

• IJ-KB CHHSS ASSOCIATION. COCYHIHI'T. i j KIGOMA ARRIVES. WELLINGTON, This Day. The troopship Kigoma arrived at noon, and berths at 2.30 p.m. AN INFANT DROWNED. INVERCARGILL. This Day. The infant son of William Plunkett, of South Hillend, aged 17 months, wandered from the house, and was found floating in a sheep-dip, life being extinct.

BURNT TO DEATH. INVERCARGILL. This Day. Duncan James Matliieson, a returnled soldier, assistant at the Birchwood dairy factory, was burnt to death in his hut on Sunday morning. The origin ! of the fire is unknown. RAILWAY ENQUIRY BOARD. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Railway Service Enquiry Board met to-day, AIV Justice Stringer presiding. It dealt with method' of procedure. It was deeided to sit again next Monday to consider the claims of the Second Division, other than those of the running branch.

A HOLD-UP. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A motorist driving towards the city os Saturday night, with his wife, observed a man with a. shot-gun holding up three other persons on the road. Ihe motorist was allowed to pass after a parley, and made a dash for the Addington police station where he picked up SJergt. Stewart and a Constable. When the party arrived at the scene, the hold-up was still in progress. The constable presented an automatic revolver at the man with the gun and Sergt. Stewart dashed in and grappled him? .A terrific struggle ensued, but the man was finally overpowered and handcuffed. His name was Albert Edward Nichol, aged 40. He was charged at the Magistrate’s Court this morning with pointing a loaded shot-gun at William Hann with intent to do grievous bodily harm and remanded. Hann is a brother-in-law of Nichol. It is understood a family a dispute caused the trouble. One of the party held up was Hann’s wife, a sister of Nichol. DEATH FROM BURNS.

TAUMARUNUNI, This Day

Rita Goodsir, aged twenty-two, daughter of A. J- Goodsir, a farmer, met. with an accident, on Saturday night which ended fatally. She returned from a holiday at Hamilton .on Saturday, and attended the pictures, and as her parents are living a few miles out she went to stay with fiiends in town. At eleven o’clock, the family were in bed, and the first they heard was the girl rushing into their bedroom in flames, and screaming®. She then ran to the tap in the kitchen. Her friends followed, and extinguished the flames hut the girl was badly burnt from the waist to the nook. She was admitted to the hospital at midnight hut died early this morning. Deceased stated she was cleaning her gloves with benzine near a lighted, candle.