TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[pee press association.—copyright.] INFANT’S BODY FOUND. , NAPIER, Nov. 7. The body of a newly-born infant was L und in an out-house at Mceanee yes- 1 tevdAy. An inquest was opened at ! Napier afternoon and adjourned till Tuesday. found DROWNED. GISBORNE, Nov. 0. Arthur Barron, aged 37, was found drowned in a creek at O’Rorkes station, Tolaga Bay. WATERFRONT POSITION. - GISBORNE, Nov. 9. ' The Shipowners Committee met this morning to jeonsider the waterfront position and decided to issue an ultimatum to the men, that;work on the Fairburn must be resumed and the matter referred to the Disputes Committee ac- | cording to the terms of the award,' . I otherwise no labour would ho engaged, j KIRKWOOD MAKES A RECORD. WANGANUI, November 8. At the Wanganui links on Saturday, playing in a gale of wind. Kirkwood went the round in .70, a record. He jnissed three .short (putts, otherwise lie would have scored 67. Since Arthur Duncan’s 72 in 1911, the links have been lengthened and bunkered and are now four strokes harder. RABBIT SKINS. DUNEDIN, 'Ndvembejr 7. j A cablegram received on Saturday morning by a, leading New Zealand firm, (dated London, November 4tli., states j that “Rnbbitskin prospects are decid- ; edly unfavourable. For the next auc- : Lion there are available 3500 bales. A j decline of 20 or 30 per cent is anticipated in consequence of bad trade and a ! poor demand.” BENZINE ON FIRE, TE KUITI, November 8. A fire fjraught with dangerous possii ibilities, occurred on a goods train which j left Te Kuiti for Taumarunui at 5 a.m. I to-day. Some three miles from To ! Kuiti a spark from the engine ignited ! a consignment of 300 cases of benzine, consigned to Abraham and Williams Ltd., and Mr R. Winger, Taumarunui, and valued at £6OO. The patent fire extinguished on the train proved useless, and the train was shunted hack to. Te Kuiti, where the fire brigade coped with the outbreak.