TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1920, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

I suck rasas assoc l vtjon . —cory right, i WESTPORT’ TRAWLER WRECKED. CHRISTCHURCH Aug. 3. The trawler Trumpeter, which ;eli ■Lyttelton' on Monday night for Westport, put in at Kaikoua to shelter. This morning she got adrift from her moorings, becoming a total wreck. The Trumpter was recently ibid by Miller Bros, of Lyttelton, to Captain Jackson of Westport. The trawler was 39ft. over all, ketch-rigged and fitted with a 10 h.p. engine. Captain Stein was in charge of the vessel from Lyttelton to Westport. The trawler Alone, belonging to Derry fishermen of Ivaikoura, also dragged her moorings in the big sen at Ivaikoura to-day and was broken in half.

NEW HKA R MASTER APPOINTED WELLINGTON, August 3.

At a special meeting of the College Board of Governors to-day, Mr F. R. Cresswell M. A. was appointed Headmaster c.f 'Wellington College, in succession to Mr J. P. Firth and will take up his duties at the beginning of next year. Mr Cresswell, who wns selected from sixty-four applicants for the position is at present senior inspector of secondary schools in New Zealand and has his home in Christchurch. He is 51 years of age and is married.

THE MARRIAGE LAW. WANGANUI, August 3. Tlie Wanganui Divisional Executive of the P.P.A. passed tliie following resolution to-night:—“That this meeting of the Wanganui Divisional Executivo calls upon the Dominion Executive of the P.P.A., to give evidence before the Statute’s Revision Committee on the Marriage Amendment Act, and direct Council’s attention to the Pink Catechism, a text book approved by Archbishops and Bishops of New Zealand to be directed to be used in all dioceses, in which it is definitely stated that two Catholics or a Catholic and a /Protestant married by a Protestant Minister, or by a Civil Registrar, are not married at all.

SHIPPING SUPPLY. WELLINGTON, Aug 1. “We are getting New Zealand produce away very well,” stated the Prime Minister. “The supply of tonnage is well assured until November and the ships are of a larger type than formerly averaging 100,000 carcases in loading capacity, ft looks as if there will be a fair amount of space available for the coming season’s produce; for the shipping supply is the best we have had since the outbreak of the war.” INVERCARGILL, Aug 1 Mr Charles Biekerton, third son of Professor Biekerton, one time of /Canterbury College, died this morning, after a brief illness. Mr Biekerton, who was 44 years of age, was born and educated in Christchurch, and at an early age he attended the Christchurch School of Art. MOTOR. CYCLE FATALITY. CHRISTCHURCH, August ~i. \ motor-cycle fatality occurred at ITalswell, about five miles from Christchurch late this afternoon, but the cause is unknown. Hearing a crash tlie licensee of the H'alswcl Hotel stepped out into the road and found two men lying thereon with a motor cycle standing °ncarby. Both men were carried into the hotel and one, an elderly man believed to he W. W. Gibbs, of Le Boils Bay, died within a few minutes. The other who is supposed to be F. Williams also of Le Hons Bay. was later brought into Christchurch Hospital suffering from a fractured skull. , INVITATION WITHDRAWN. I TIMA&D, August 3. In view of the difficulty of obtaining accommodation, the Timaru Presbytery yesterday decided that it would lie unwise to repeat its invitation to the General Assembly for 1921 to meet at ' Timaru.

A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. I CHRISTCHURCH, August 3. j One of the cars plying between Christ- ; church and Akaroa go,t too near’ the edge of the road when passing another car near the hilltop this afternoon and dropped thirty feet. It turned f double somersault and was brougfit up against a fence. The four occupants escaped with bruises and fright. MOTOR FATALITY. - GISBORNE, Aug 4. . John Johansen, a station cook, was killed through a car skidding on a slippery road near Hangaroa. He jumped out of the car which rolled over three times down a bank, and vent over him. HYDRO ELECTRIC CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, Aug. 4 A conference of delegates of Hydio Electric Power Boards yesterday carried a motion to the effect that Govei nment should obtain all the money inquired for hydro electric development, Lundon (Dunedin) who moved the mo-, tion, said the idea was that Govern- ; ment could by borrowing for Boards in j general, get the money more economically than Boards could by borrow-, ing it individually. i Another remit was that Cambridge Power Board in conjunction preferably with other Boards, is desirous of purchasing Horahora from Government. The Minister said—you’ve got two chances of getting it, your own and “Buckley’s.” The remit was withdrawn.