TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS

O'.ESS ASSOCIATION , COPYHIuUI.i SAD DROWNING FATALITY. TE KUITI, March 10. A drowning accident, involving the loss of three lives, took place this afternoon. A young child of Mrs Ernie Thoms, of Mangaohoe, met with an accident when going to school, and Airs Thoms got the eldest boy to drive a car containing herself, the injured child and a baby, to Te Kuiti, for medical attention. Crossing a small creek, which is generally dry, the water flooded the engine. The boy went for help, and on liis return the car and its occupants had disappeared.. The body of Airs Thoms has been recovered, but the bodies of the two children are still missing. AIAN CUTS HIS THROAT. CHRISTCHURCH, March .10 Tom AlcKinley cut his throat with a razor at Dartfield to-day. He was a married man, his wife residing at Wellington. It is understood he has a brother at Gore. A WANGANUI PROJECT. WANGANUI, Alarch 10. At a meeting to-day, largely attended by representatives of farmers, financiers and business men, it was unanimously resolved to form a Woollen Mill Company in Wanganui, with a normal capital of £200,000, in £1 shares, and an initial subscription of £IOO,OOO. Several prospective applications for large blocks of shares were reported, and the unanimous concensus of opinion was that early flotation is assured. A strong board of provisional directors was appointed.

RAILWAY CROSSING ACCIDENT

TIMARU, Alarch 10.

As the second express north was entering Temuka Station, a six-horse team, with an empty wagon, just leaving a store, after unloading, essayed to cross Denmark Street Crossing, though the warning bells were ringing. A second six-liorse team was following closely. It is supposed that the noise of the two teams prevented the driver from hearing the bells. The enginedriver, had not time to pull up to save a collision. The engine crashed into the leaders, and carried one of them nearly to the platform. Two horses were killed outright, and a third hatt to be shot, while a fourth was seriously injured. The team belonged to W. H. Thornley, and the driver, Mr E. Tarrant. The three horses were valued at £IOO.

OFFICIAL INQUIRY. DUNEDIN, March 10. An inquiry into the case of Donald Mclntosh, a returned soldier, alleging unsatisfactory treatment, was concluded to-day, save for the taking of evi. dence at Wellington of the Commissioner of Pensions to disprove the soldier's allegation that a pension was not granted until the inquiry was authorised. TROTTING ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, Alarch 10. At a meeting of the Board of the New Zealand Trotting 'Association, the programme for t|he Forbury Winter Meeting was approved, but the Club’s attention was drawn to the proximity ;of date to that of the Ashburton Alecting. It was decided to congrabu-. late the Taranaki Trotting Club "n the success of its inaugural meeting, and support its claim for a totalisaior permit. In connection with the disqualification of W. Brown by the Tirnaru Trotting Club, for obviously “pulling” Theseus, and his subsequent appeal, it was decided to ask for a full report; also whether the sentence imposed was sufficent for such an offence. The Board decided to accept' as satisfactory the explanation of the owner, R. J. St° ne > and his trainer, W. Warren, regarding the scratching of Gleaming at- the Forbury Alecting. SUDDEN DEATH. GORE, Alarch 10. A well-known citizen, Mr James Holland, senr., 63 years of age, a contractor, and formerly a publican, and .in early settler, died there yesterday afternoon suddenly from heart failure.

RAILWAYMAN’S PROTEST. WELLINGTON, March 10

The Wellington .Railway Officers’ Institute, after considering the published decision of Justice Stringer upon the railway officers’ claims, refuses to accept the proffered bonus of £ls. The Institute describes the offer as, “a direct insult to the railway officers.” Direction is also made to- the offer of £7 10s a year to the single officers. “Nothing but the original claims will be accepted,” says the Institute. INVERCARGILL, March 10 At a meeting of the Invercargill branch of the A.S.R.S., to-night, general disatisfaction was expressed with the Wages Board’s decision regarding the bonus, and its failure to reco nmend an alteration in working hours and conditions. A vote of all the members of the branch will he taken on the subject.