TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1920, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

/1 ■•• It rIIF.SS ASSOC erioN.— COPYRIGHT.; PRICE OF GOLD. WELLINGTON, May 17. Tlie High Commissioer cables !•. m London, under date 13th inst, as follows:—The official price of gold'to-day is £5 7s 6d per ounce for shipment to India and South Africa.

VICTORIAN WHEAT. DUNEDIN, May 17. Two large consignments of Victorian wheat have reached New Zealand. Tlie steamer Kainpoi, which arrived at Bluff this afternoon from Geelong, brougnt 32,000 hags for discharge at the southern port, while the steamer Orari arrived at. Auckland yesterday afternoon with over 10,000 bags of wheat from Melbourne. OLYMPIC GAMES. WELLNGTON, May 18.

The Olympic Council mep to-night. It was reported that passages tad been hooked oh the Euripides, from Australia, for Miss Walrond, Messrs Wilson, Davidson and Hndfield, the four athletes who will represent New Zealand at the Olympic Games at Antwerp." The Euripides is duo to leave Australia about June ;llth. The question/of including Lindsay in the team has been definitely dropped', advice having been received that ho will not be available. The question of finance was discussed at some length by the Council, it being reported that sufficient funds had not yet been subscribed to send the .team abroad. Some two or 'hree hundred pounds had yet to be raised, ini the Council resolved to wait until advices had been received from certain centres before approaching the Government as a' last resort for assistance. Practically the whole of the money raised so far has been subscribed in Wellington and Auckland. DEATH OF WELL-TvNOWN SOLICITOR. CHRISTCHURCH, May 18. The death occurred to-day of Mr William B. Cowlinshaw, solicitor, at cue age of 54. He finished his education at Oxford, and qualified for the law, being admitted to the Inner Temple. He was for some years in the local legal firm of Garrick, Cowlinshaw, and Fisher. lie leaves a widow, two -ms and two daughters.

FATAL FIRE AT WAIIII. . CHILD BURNT TO DEATH. WAIHI, May 16. A fire resulting in the loss of iife occurred last night just after 10 o’clock at the residence of Mr Thomas Barker. At the time of the outbreak Mrs Barker attending a sick neighbour, while her husband and Gis two elder children were in the township, the four younger children having gone to bed. The oldest of these, James, 12 years of age, was awakened by smoke and fire, and he succeeded in getting his two little brothers out through a bedroom window, after which he attempted to reach his little sister, Iris, between two and three years old, win was in the front bedroom and whom he heard crying out. Ho vas however, forced back by the flames in the passage way, and although he lost 'hb time in raising the alarm, the little one had been burned to death iiefore assistance could be found. The local firo brigade turned out promptly, but owing to a- collision of the- firo engine with a straying cow, were late in reachinn- the scene, having had to abandon the engine and requisition .1 private motor car.