TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[by TEBEGItAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] BURGLARS SENTENCED. AUCKLAND, Aug. 26. Two young men, Reynolds Blythe, ‘ and .Jack Hanley, guilty of an extensive scries of burglaries, involving the theft of money and goods totalling £129 were sentenced by Justice Adams to three years’ reformative treatment. BUTTER PRICE RISE PREDICTED. / WELLINGTON, Aug. 26. On Wednesday next, the prico fixing agreement respecting butter expires. Thereafter the factories will have a free market. A well informed expert expressed the opinion to-day that butter would rise twopence pet' lb. He also predicts a season of high production, saying it will partly be due to the mildness of the winter. WOMAN GAOLED WELINGTOX, August 26 \t the Police Court Mrs Rill Beckett was charged with ill treating and assaulting her adopted child. Dolly Hill Reckott. Th P evidence disclosed that th ( > child was insufficiently fed and clothed. A school teacher discovered j bruises on her forehead, arms, and j legs, indicating the child had been severely thrashed. To the police accus'd admitted beating the child. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate imposed a sentence of three weeks’ imn'isonment. SUPREME COURT. CHRISTCHURCH, August 26. At the Supreme Court Thomas byms. mate on a. coastal steamer, i«s i warded £92 damages against Joseph Aright, a Chiropaetor. in respoct of tllorred malpractice. Plaintiff was a<l--ised ill 1919 that he was suffering Fromi cancel. - , fearing the knife (insulted a chiropractor, who told him go to a surgeon. Plaintiff then saw [(■fondant, who said he could cure him. I'he treatment did him no good, and da intiff then consulted a surgeon and vas operated on with success. The defence was a denial that the daintiff made known the nature of his ■omplaint. Defendant ultimately susiccted that cancer was the cause of die trouble. And then advised him to •onsult a. surgeon. He denied he had ruaranteed a cure. 'IVII. SERVICE RETRENCHMENT. WELLINGTON. August 26. It. was stated to-day that the first >ateh of Public Service retrenchmce mtices have already been sent out to hose concerned. The men in question, it is averred, ■re not temporary Civil Servants, but icrmancnt men. They are not all sin;]o men. nor are they men who have ’erved their 40 years and are eligible o retire on pension. The step is very keenly felt in Pubic Service cb'clos. ALICE PARKINSON RE LEASED. \velltxgtox. August o. The Sepretiawy of the .Minister of Justice states that it has Im'cii deckled 1 ;,o release Alice Parkinson. She was wntenced to life imprisonment for mandaughter at Napier. The Prisons Hoard considered her fuse in February, under the legislation passed by Parliament at Inst session but decided to defer a decision until they had an opportunity of going further into the ease. The Board then resolved recommend the Governor-General rolaaae Miss Parkinson oil probationary <w>tiditions.| The recommendation was approved by the Governor-General. CANCER RESEARCH. WELLINGTON, Aug. 27 It lias been suggested latterly that New Zealand ought to undertake some research into the causes of cancer and not merely await the results of researches in other countries. The .Minister of Health referred this suggestion to the bead of the Health Department for repoit, as to whether research was being undertaken in New Zealand, and if not whether research was desirable. Dr Valintine in reply, states no special research is being undertaken in New Zealand. He points out the increased prevalence of cancer is world wide, and not confined to New Zealand. The Department is fully alive to the seriousness of the matter and is keepj ing in close touch with the Imperial i Cancer Eiind Committee in London and | w'itk other research organisations. I Special research in New Zealand does j not seem practicable, the community not I being large enough to provide till' ■ clinical material, thorough re- ! search and cannot give facilities for ! the close co-operation of experts in lariini'- branches of research. Advancement . in treatment is being watched oare- , fully.

A FATAL FALL. FFILLING, This Day, A young man, A. J. Sounder, while employed on a building at Feilding frei'/.iiig works, feTl from the roof to the ground for tv, feet. His neck was broken and lie died immediately. He !>•- longed to Wanganui.