TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYH/flt'T.l SOLDIERS MEMORIAL. NELSON, February 6. The City,Council having refused permission to erect a war memorial at the top of the Zig-Zag in the botanical reserve, the committee which had the

matter in hand decided to ask the Re- . turned Soldiers’ Association for an expression of opinion, i This Association, accordingly met, and after discussion, held a- .ballot, which resulted in favour of a proposal to place a piece of statuary at the base of the church isteps. One of the speakers strongly denounced the public ..apathy in tile matter of a local war memorial. i WELLINGTON CRIMINAL SES--1 SIONS. WELLINGTON, February 5. At* the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice ‘Edwards sentenced Fred Snianue! Simms to a term of reformative 1 treatment not- exceeding five years on a charge of having obtained a motor car, valued at £4lO from W. 11. N. Amos, by means of false pretences. Accused, who had served at Gallipoli and | was invalided home' in 1915, gave Amos a promisorv note for £4JO, payable at the Union Rank at Palmerston North, but it was returned marked “no account.” He had . represented to.* Amos that he had £BOO in the bank. RAID ON GAMING HOUSE. WELLINGTON, February o'. , Charges resulting from a recent raid in Singer’s avenue on an alleged betting establishment were heard in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Denis Dris-

coll and Reginald McKwan were fined £SO each for keeping a common gaming house. A conviction was also entered ( against Driscoll for. issuing a doiiible- ; card without an imprint, and he was j lined £2O. Other charges against McEwan and three men Kreyl, Fernandez and Hokansen, were dismissed. . HYDRO-ELECTRIC! POWER, PALMERSTON N., Feb. 4. Mr J. A. Nash (member for Palmerston), who takes a keen interest in the ' Mangahao hydro-electric scheme, has just returned from a trip to the works. aHe stated that the main road from Shannon, which winds up the hill to file . site of the main dam, was being rapidly . completed. Most of the corners had j been taken off, and practically the whole surface had been laid in broken metal. On completion it should prove an excel--lent road for motoring. The work on the'road to the headworks was also making satisfactory progress, asd the two miles should be completed in about a month. Sixty to seventy men were now employed. The sawmill plant had arrived and was now being installed in a fine belt or rimu bush set apart for timber for the works. ‘ PEA RIFLE AGAIN.

DARGAVILLE, Feb. 4. Jack Green and Alf Jenkins, of Oranoa, aged 15 and 10 years! respectively, were yesterday cleaning out a pea rifle, and endeavouring to extraet n jammed bullet. Tliq gun . went off, the bullet passing through Green’s leg and lode in -- in Jenkins’s knee. Dr Burton sent both lads to the Northern Wairoa Hospital.

DROWNING FATALITY. INVERCARGILL, This Day

William J. Plunkett, aged 47, a well known farmer, was drowned in Oreti river on Sunday while bathing. A companion endeavoured to effect his rescue, but was dragged under the water. When the body was recovered life was extinct. A month ago a child of the deceased was drowned in a slteep dip. | CHEESE FACTORY OPENED. | WESTPORT, Feh. 7. The official, opening of the first cheese factory in this district took place at Birchfield to-day, when there was a large and representative gathering of citizens and farmers, over which Mr Mclntyre (County Chairman presided. Speeches were made by the Mayor of Westport (Mr Leaver), the Chairman of the Harbour Board (Mr Slee), the President of the Farmers’ Union (Mr Brunning), and other representative men. The speeches were of a congratulatory nature ,and expressing the hope that this industry would be a steadily expanding,one, as increasing attention is being given to farming. 1 £IOO RABBIT FINE, j NAPIER, This Day. At the Magistrate’s Court, Robert Anderson was fined £IOO for failing to destroy rabbits on his property. ‘ CORONER’S VERDICT, i DUNEDIN, Tips Day. On January 20th, the body of a newlv born infant was found with a sack

round it, on second beach St. Clair, and with a piece of linen tied tightly round its neck. The inquest was adjourned and resumed to-day. The Coroner returned a verdet that the cause of deatli was asphyxia and that deceased was wilfully murdered by some person or persons unknown,