TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEI¥I‘\ BV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. TELEGRAPHIC MODIEICATIONS. WELLINGTON, March 10 The Postmaster-General has agreed to certain modifications of the tariff for press messages recently announced, in order to prevent the charge of short messages which are counted separately, ex< ceding the public rate. Is will he diargcd for the first fifty words and Is (id for 51 to 100, and thereat tells (id per 100 or a fraction thereof. Messages for morning papers from offices reopening after 5 p.m. now limited to three hundred words will bo increased to six hundred. With regard to the request for prompt despatch of press telegrams between 1 and 3 p.m.. the Minister said they are all ready given precedence Dotween those hours, and specific instances of delay should be brought under the Department’s notice. In other respects the tariff remains ;is already announced. The above alterations will come into force on March Kith. RESUMPTION AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, March 10. Dunedin watersiders resumed v ok ut 8 a.m. to-day. CHARGE OF THEFT. PALMERSTON NORTH, March 10 \t the Police Court Harry Levy Wollaiid was charged with theft, at A wnpuui, on Feb. 19tli of woollen goods valued nt'£3Bo!> .the property of Mackay. Logan and Caldwell. On the application of the police the accused was remanded for a week. The articles comprise the contents of two or three eases of goods, stolen from A wapuni ‘ siding whither they were removed, owing to (be congestion of the local rail" ay yards. RAILWAY COMAI[SSION. PALMERSTON NORTH. March 1« The Railway Commission set up to consider railway facilities at Palmerston North and any deviation between Paekakariki and Alarton, sat yesterday and to-dnv bearing evidence for and against the Department’s proposed deviation at Palmerston North. AV A TER SI DL WORK RESUMED A I CELAND, March 10. At one o’clock to-day conditions oil the waterfront- returned to normal. Fourteen vessels berthed at the wharves and twelve remained at anchor, avritjn<r IjerthiifTt*. Thu Rarawii resumes runniug from Onehutiga to New Plymouth to-morrow. ; The gas supply is again complete talisman GOLD MINE. ' AUCKF/VNI), March 10. The annual meeting of the Talismai Gold Mining t oy., resolved t ■ go n.t( vo'.'.mtary liquidation. It was stain the mine prospects and other condita in did not justify a continuance ( opera t ions. I A FAMILY adrift. ! a LUCKY ESCAPE. ; WAJROA, March K>. Neville of Portland Island left fo: Wairoa, in a motor launch, accompan jed bv three children. The engine broki down’ a,ml they drifted for two day: without Pood or water. They then do termined to land from the craft nea Waikokopu. The eldest girl swan j,shore through the breakers and th others were thrown out, but escaped Tin- launch was smashed.