TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(PER ruuss ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT-1 SUGAR. WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr Astloy, representing the Colonial Sugar Company, is now in New Zealand to confer with the Government regarding the present position of sugar supplies and future sales of sugar to i New Zealand. It is very difficult to obtain reliable information as to the [shortage. It is certain a scarcity prevails in some localities, but not in others, and as the company claims to be turning out about the same bulk as usual, it is suggested that there is not really a seripus shortage over the whole Dominion. The purchase price is another matter. The Government has in recent years controlled the price and arranged with the company the price at which it would sell in quantity. The existing agreement shortly expires, and a new one must be made, which will be discussed between Mr Astley and Mr Massey, ns head of tlie Board of Trade. »>

SUGAR AGREEMENT. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Prime Minister announced today that the present agreement with the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company will not be terminated in March as intended, but will continue until the end of June, when more definite information as to the crop, now growing, wiii be available. Since November, tlie position in regard to supplies for New Zealand has improved so considerably that the , company anticipates that in all probability, eighteen months- supply for norinfcil requirements is now in sight.

DEMAND FOR COAL. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 20

The executive of tlie North Canterbury Coal Merchants Association forwarded a resolution to the Minister of Munitions stating that in view of the large stocks of hard coal held by the Government and the small proportion allotted to retailers for public distribution, all railway services, other than essentials should be cut off so as to enable tlie public to secure hard coal to mix with lignites. THE ISLANDS TRIP. WELLINGTON, Jan. 22. There are quite a number of applications for the islands trip, apart from members of Parliament. Some business men are keen to go, and are willing to pay a good price for a passage with tlie Parliamentarians. Messrs E. Kellett, J. Horn, and W. A. Veitch, M.P.’s, have signified their intention to join tlie Parliamentary party for Samoa. Messrs J. R. Hamilton, M.P., Awnrua, and A. Hamilton, M.P., Wallace, have accepted the invitation to proceed to Samoa next month. It is understood that tiie Hon A. F. Hawke, of Invercargill, will also be one of tlie party.

A SON CHARGED. BLENHEIM, January 26,

A young man, William Black, was arrested and charged at Blenheim with wounding bis father in the arm with a pea rifle. Tlie ease was remanded. The father is in the hospital, but lie’is not seriously injured, A FARMER DROWNED. HAWERA, This Day. Louis Herman, a farmer, when crossing Kapuni river on Saturday afternoon to help a neighbour io bring some cows across the ford, was washed off bis horse and drowned. Tlie body was recovered yesterckiy, about a mile from tlie place the accident occurred. Deceased, whose wife died two months ago, leaves five little children.

DIRTY CREAM CANS. DUNEDIN, This Day. George Haworth, a dairyman of Wiekliffo Bay, was fined £25 at the police court for supplying Waitaki Dairy Factory with cream out of filthy cans. Defendant pleaded that they by mistake had tipped the cream into cans usually used to hold the skimmed milk for the pigs. PEA RIFLE AGAIN. WELLINGTON, Jan. 26. A sad shooting fatality is reported from Ebdentown near Upper Hntt, qs> a result whereof a three-yeqr old child, Priscilla Southey, was shot dead with a pea rifle by a little playmate. Particulars are unavailable, but it appears a party of little olios were playing together and somehow got possession of 'the firearm, with the result chronicled.

ARRIVING TROOPSHIPS. WELLINGTON, J.an. 26The troopship Bremen from England, via Hobart, is expected to. arrive, at Wellington on Wednesday, aqd the Ruapehu at Auckland on Thursday--. FELL OFF TRAIN. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 26. Albert Patterson, aged 16, when returning to Lyttelton on Saturday evening, fell from the train in the tunnel about 160 yards from the Lyttelton end. He had a miraculous escape of being cut to pieces, being found h.Y ** ganger while making an inspection of 'the tunnel on Sunday morning, having ]uiii for twelve hours in an uncon. scions state alongside the line over which many trains had passed after he fell. Patterson was removed to tho casualty ward at Lyttelton and was found to he suffering Loin a deep wound i in the forehead and two others in the ! base of the skull. His condition is w I garded as serious. WORK RESUMED,

; GREY MOUTH, This Day, Work was resomed to-day in No 3 State Mine. The trouble was between the miners aiid truckers. No representations wove made to the manager. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. GREYMOUTH, This Da.y- ---’ A young man Archibald O’Con not, charged with concerned in window smashing oji the occasion, of the Howard Elliott meeting on the 20th Oct. last, was committed for trial. Bad was allowed. Accused pleaded not guilty, and reserved his delence. 'lbis is the third committal lor a similar offence. FINED £•>, PALMERSTON N-, Tb.w Day. At the. Magistrate's Court, Mr Stout, S.M., inflicted the full penalty of £5 against- KeV. Moses Ayrton, the Labour

candidate at the general elections, for mutilating a paper in the Public Library on December 4th. Defendant was seen to take a clipping from the “ Grey River Argus,” and the Borough Council took proceedings. THE HUNTLY MINERS. AUCKLAND, u This Day. Mr Arbuckie, in reply to the MineOwners’ suggestion that the Miners’ Federation should act on the Huntly resolution says the dispute is in the hands of tlie Alliance of Labour, to which body all communications must go. The Secretary of the Alliance was not prepared to make a statement.