TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] AN INCENDIARIST THIEF. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 10. Lato last night a constable discovered that premises in Kelvin Street, had been entered, a large plate glass window having been broken. On investigation, h 0 found that a fire had been started in. the back room, somo cases sprinkled with kerosene being alight. He summoned the Fire Brigade, hut with the assistance of another constable ho extinguished the flames being the Fire Brigade, arrived. -An examination of the premises showed that goods to the value of a hoi it £4 were missing. After the Brigade had returned to the station, which is close by the scene of the burglary, two firemen saw a man passing with a bundle over his shoulder. They approached him, when lie feigned illness ,and begged for water. While one of the firemen was getting this, the man dealt the other a blow with a weapon of some sort, knocking him down, and escaped, leaving the hag. This morning, tho police arrested a man named John Douglas Stark, aged 2G, in connection with tho affair. Ho was brought before the Court and lemanded until Monday. About an hour before the Kelvin Street, affair, the window of a jewellers’ shop in Don Street, was broken, hut nothing was missing.

EMPLOYERS VIEW. WELLINGTON. November 10. The Wellington Drapers and- Clothiers met to-day to consider the wages bonus. A unanimous opinion was expressed that if the cost of “doing busiwere made still heavier, the new award “was bound to react on those it was intend to benefit.” No protests, it was said, had lie op made hitherto, hut the employers felt that “the top of the curve had now been reached.” A sub-committee was formed to provide data showing the effect the bonus would have upon the cost of living and lay such evidence before the Arbitration Court. GISBORNE WHARF DISPUTE. WELLINGTON, November 10. It is anticipated that the Gisborne trouble jyill be settled shortly. The men, it is understood, have been instructed by the headquarters of the the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Association to return to work, pending of the matters in dispute by the National Disputes Committee.