TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1920, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

I PER PRESS ASSOC'iTION. COPYRIGHT.] A COLLISION, . ASHBURTON, June 7. Harry Flatman, while motor-cycling from Valetta. with a passenger in a sidechair, collided with a horse and trap at Wester-field on Saturday evening. Flatman was travelling in the centre of the road, and in endeavouring to clear the vehicle, the driver of which appeared to have lost his struck the trap broadside on. Tlio.cycle and sidecar were badly slashed, but neither Flatman nor the passenger was seriously injured. The driver of the vehicle drove on. .

FIREMAN CRUSHED. WELLINGTON, Ju,ne 7. William Fitzgibbon, a' fireman fell from the Glasgow Wharf early on Saturday night, and- some time later was found crushed between his ship, the Canadian’lmporter, and the wharf. He is believed to have'•been lying in that position for about three hours. When admitted to the hospital at about 11.30 p.m., Fitzgibbon was in a collapsed condition, and suffering frem shock, there was a big bruise about the base of the spine and it was found that he had sustained a fracture of the pelvis. *■' f. manslaughter. AUCKLAND, Jue o. . At the Supreme Court, Hona Herewini, ,a young Maori, found guiltyi'of manslaughter, arising put of the death of another native at Awanui, in. February, was sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment at Invercargill. ELECTROCUTED. DUNEDIN, June 6. I A boy named James Caskiej a teleI graph messenger, 15 years of age, living in Cumberland street, was electrocuted last night about 9 o’clock in the reserve known as the Triangle, in Lower High,street. Cnskie was swinging on one of the wire stays of the flagpole when, the high wind blew against it an elec-trio power jvire. This probably carried a current of about 1700 volts, and Caskie_ must have been killed instantaneously.

A fatal fall. INVERCARGILL, June 7; A young man named Herbert Tinker, a, recent arrival from Home, missed a step when descending a steep chaircase® and fell to the bottom, sustaining a fractured skull. He died without regaining consciousness. Deceased, who had four years” war service, has relatives iii Oamaru.

WAR SERVICE GRATUITY., WELLINGTON, This Day. Applications and payments for the War Service Gratuity have now practically ceased. It was officially stated yesterday that up till Saturday, last there had beep paid out in gratuities a total of £527,600, representing about 91,000 applications. There were over 100,000 men in* the Expeditionary Force but tins' in bided some thousands who wen; not entitled to the gratuity, and others who had returned to the Dominion and left again on active service. This reduced the number actually eh-

titled to payment to about 96,000. About 1000 of 5,000 who still had claim to gra.tiuity might represent men wild obtained their discharge in England, but of the actual number still to come to hand, the names and addresses of the remainder have been ascertained, and the dues would bo paid out to them when application was made. The Department is now occupied in payment of retrospective children’s allowances. The staff of the War Expenses Branch has been reduced since December from about 480 to 150.