TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1921, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] OUTCOME OF STRIKE. AUCKLAND, February 28. As an outcome of the vvatersiders’ dispute, the Auckland wool sales have been postponed till March 21st. I A number of drivers have Ijoen thrown out of work as a result of the operation of notices given a week ago. Gas Company men to-day received a week’s notice. The manager stated today that if the dispute is not settled within a week some of the furnaces would probably have to he lot down, in which ease it would he some time before the normal gas supply could he , given, such period being any time up j to a month according to the degree ' the retorts had become cold. 1 I | WATERFRjONT CRISIS. 1 AVELLINGTON, February 28. 1 Work on the waterfront is generally at a complete standstill No further developments are reported. The steamers working to-day were the Hororata, which is loading the Nelson fruit for London and tli<. ferry steamers. The men are not working any overtime on the ferry steamers. The permanent hands are being kept in employment. GROWTH OF UNEMPLOYMENT.

WELLINGTON, February 28

On the waterfront the position is unchanged. Owing to the serious Hnrlage of coal several manufacturing i< -i,crriis will have to close down this we n A city brick kiln is closing drum to-morrow. This will throw forty tie n out of work. The employers’ notice to the drivers will expire to-morrow, when 60 per c-ent of the men engaged in wharf “-i-’k will be dismissed.

A large number of storemen la ve been put off. It is feared that B'e Waterside Federation’s reply to Sa'ur--1 day’s conference will not be avadiide till the end of the week. THE CARPFNTF.R’S TROUBLE. WELLINGTON, March 1. The Secretary of the Carpenters’ Union says about seventy men have left their jobs since Friday, as a result of the employers decision to limit the wage to 2/9 per hour He says nonunionists are applying and some members have accepted the reduced wage, but there are comparatively few An int'resting development is the decision oi Unionists to engage under tlie guild system in the business of building or altering houses, believing they can compete successfully with the present ennt factors. PRODUCE FREIGHTS. TIMAIU\ February 28. Tip, Executive of the South Cantor bury Farmers' Union, by a resolution, protested against the proposed increase in the freight rates on frozen iimat and requested its president (Air J. Ilitchener, AT. P.) to forward a protest to the proper quarter. D was stated that the buyers have reduced he buying limits in view of the proposed increase in the freight. PRICE OF MEAT. FARMERS’ UNION RESOLUTION WANGANUI. Feb. 28. The serious slump in the price uJ meat was referred to by Air AY. J. Poison, (Wellington), provincial president of the Farmers’ Union at a meeting of the Fordell branch of the Farmers Union this evening, when it was resolved that the Government he asked to confer with the Freezing Companies of New Zealand with a view to some nrraugment being made by which the price of meat shall he held up in N.Z. until the whole-of the Imperial meat shall have been shipped and the congestion at the English end removed.

THE TIM ABU MURDERER. EXAMINED BY SPECIALISTS. CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 28. Dr Frank Hay, Inspector-General of mental hospitals, and Dr Gray llassel, formerly superintendent of Porirua , Mental Hospital, and recognised as one | of the Dominion’s foremost “alienists, i have examined Matthews, the I imam , murderer. Although the report of these doctors will he required as soon as possible in view of tlie approach of the time at which, failing intervention by Cabinet, Matthews will lie hanged; it does not follow that this examination was a final FARMER’S TRAGIC END. GORED BY A BULL. DUNEDIN, Feb. 28. Allan Kano, a well-known.farmer, residing at Luggnte, met liis end in a tragic manner on Saturday morning. He went out to a paddock to. bring in the cows to milk, when lie was attacked bv a bull and gored to death. From a distance Mrs Kane, saw her husband being tossed up on the animals horns, hut before she could reach bun scarcely a, hone in his body was left unbroken. Deceased was 34, married, with three young children. His father resides m Dunedin.