TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

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BOY DROWNED. • BLENHEIM, This Day, The police received news this morning from Wairau Bay that a boy of 13, Victor Holmes, .was drowned from ai dinghy. The body has not. been recovered.

NOT GUILTY. HAMILTON, September 1. At the Supreme Court, John 0. Johnstone, charged with manslaughter arising out of a recent accident in which an Maria Turner, was knocked down-by motor car, driven by accused and died an hour later. The Jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

S.S. NILE.

kgHORE AT KARAMEA.

WESTPORT, August 31. Tii© Westport-Karamea trader, s.s. Nile, got ashore on the spit of Karamea river yesterday morning when^ working the port inward. . . She is ashore in a good position for refloating, provided there is no bad weather. Her cargo is hardwood for the Public Works Department. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. WELLINGTON, Aug. 31. Questions affecting the punishment of conscientious objectors were considered at the meeting of the Dominion executive of the N.Z.R.S.A. A letter was received “from general headquarters stating that 16 men were still undergoing imprisonment, and that there were 2QOO men for whose arrests warrants had been issued. The "meeting carried the following resolution : ‘ ‘That this executive of the N.Z.R.S.A. recognises that in the case of genuine conscientious objectors imprisonment is unnecessary, but affirms the principle that such persons have no plaim to civil rights for the period provided by the Statute; op the other jjand, fliis executive is firmly of opinion that all military defaulters who are not genuine conscientious objectors should be proceeded against (if not. already tried) and that they should serve their full term and Jose their civil rights for the period specified.”

WOOL PROPOSALS CRITICISED. ' MARTON, August 28. The Wellington provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union resolved: "That conference views with alarm the efforts being made to urge the Government to grant a meat trading license to Armours, and strongly urges the Govern'ment to do all in its power to keep combines such as meat trusts from operating in New Zealand”’ The Alteration of Time Bill was disproved of; also the export tax. It was resolved that, having in view the fact that on a conservative basis the world’s stocks'of wool at the end of the coming season "will'exceed the pre'-war annual' consumption, and in view' of the fact that Argentine wool has been sold hi London at prices ranging from 16§d., the executive is not satisfied that the proposal to hold over wool for twelve months assisted by a Government to growers, will give any adequate relief. It would point out that n)\y advance nnisj; ho baled qn a wyrentage of Lpndon parity. In adproducers will have to provide jong storage and interest; also growers yv-ill fipd fbemselves pext year with two years’ olips on bauds, apd jq possibly a worse position than at present. The executive believes that the advantages of more rapid and less expensive sea transit and the saving of exchange 'and storage, will induce American and Japanese buyers to patronise -the local sales in preference to the, English and urges the Government to ‘use every possible step to advertise the coming sales in both .countries and offer special .' facilities to buyers, and that the New Zeajand Gpverjjhiept ask'the impcri - G’oyerjprnepji tp offer credit to Continenfal manufacturers of repute who desire to purchase oup wools”

AFFRAY. Augupb 30. Further particulars of the stabbing affray which occurred at Pirinoa, aibout 2$ miles from Martinborough, pn Thursday night, bavp beep received by the pplige. 'lt appparsj thqt % Norwegian iiamec} Alexander Lundquist and another j|taT> were quarrelling and a third man p ivajf caistp named Mason Coulston, jiptempfed fo intervene. It is alleged tliat Lundquist then attacked QouLston tV pd stabbed him in the ribs with a knife. Coulston wng removed to the Greytown Hospital, and on Saturday afternoon his condition was reported to be critical. Lundquist was brought be fore the Court at Martinborough and was remanded in custody for eight days. The prisoner was subsequently brought to Wellington and is at present lodged j|j tjrg Terrace Gaol. •