TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

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AJANSDA \i GiiTER CHARGE. PALMERSTON N., Aug. 15. The manslaughter charge against \Varren Newth, arising out of the recent Sanson motor fatality resulting in three deaths, concluded yesterday. Addressing the J,ury, the Crown Prosecutor admitted that if his case depended entirely as to whether Eglinton had lights at the time d! Hip collision, it would fail. The evidence on that point was not “conclusive. Nevertheless, with ordinary care, accused should have seen the approaching car even if it was milighted. Thy ©videne of the eyewitness could not be acceppted as conclusive. After a. retirement of nearly two hours, the jury returned a verdict of “Not guilty.”

FIREMAN MISSING. AUCKLAND, August 14. A fireman on the steamer Karori named Robert o’"Brion, aged 40 years, a singl e man, disappeared during the trip from Westport. He was last' seen in his bunk at 11.15 p.m. on Saturday a,nd was reported missing f at 12.30 a.m. O’Brien signed on at Wellington in 1917. , N.Z. HOCKEY SHIELD. AUCKLAND, August 14. Tile match for the New Zealand Hockey Shield between Auckland holders) and Manawatu, resulted in a win for Auckland by five goals to nil. FATALITIES. DUNEDIN, This Day. Alexander Dobbie, clerk in the railway department, aged 56, was found in a dying condition in a cellar attached to his residence yesterday afternoon with a wound in the temple and f.i pen rifle lying beside him. „ Thomas Beale aged 16, a Dunedin lad, was killed at Carey’s Bay yosteidy by falling over an embankment on to the railway line.

SUGAR WORKERS’ STRIKE. AUCKLAND, August 14

The sugar workers in Chelsea came out on strike at mid-night. A new weekly rate is wanted. The minimum is now £3 14s and the Union wants £4 14s, i.e., a £1 increase per man all round and 6s retrospective payment from May.” The Union membership is 170. The engineers and fitters are still working.

TROTTING RE-UNION. CHRISTCHURCH, August 14

Speaking at the Trotting Re-union, Sir James Carroll expressed a desire to see the sport extending in the North Island. He would like to see it there as an adjunct of the Sport of Kings, and he thought that it would become so if the Bill before Parliament were put through providing te extra twenty oi so permits. He urged, however, that the South Island should give the North a chance. If the standard in the South Island could be extended to the North the time would come, when Maorilaucl would produce trotting that would prove an example even to the home ot trotting.—America.