TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

y j 5 LI. :•! U’G ;•;.it I‘HI.SS A.SSOCIA’II«IN | KOl'N’D DROWNED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 30. A body found in the harbour lias been identified as that of Samuel Jackson (’inning, an ex-schoolmaster, aged <>'-?, will, had broil missing since August Uth •V PATHETIC FATALITY. AI'Cin,AND. Sept. 1. The schooner Cecilia Sudden. en route from Newcastle to Peru with eeal. arrived in port to-day. The boatswain. Mcrvyn IJoyd. aged 21, whose mother resides at AYuihi, fell from aloft? a distance ot 70 feet, on Friday, hie,living his arm and both legs, and receiving Other injuries. The schooner was then 500 miles east of Cape Maria, and the captain decided to make for Auckland. However. Lloyd died 15 minutes before the doctor boarded the vessel. .IESTICE 11 El! DM AN MARRIED. CHRISTCHI'RCH, Sept. 1. At St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church yesterday. Mr Justice Tlerdmnn wns married to Mrs Alice Elizabeth Drown, of Aikman’s Road, Merivale, Christchurch. the Rev. John Paterson officiating. Mr Justice Fiord man left to-day for the W<jst Coast to take Die Supreme Court sitting there. retiring. WELLINGTON. This !>»>’■ Amongst the Postal Officers anI due to retire at the end of | the montli is Mr A. H. Stuart, l’ostmaster at Hokitika. I AUSTRALIAN EH (’IT. AECKLAND. An;;. " The shipment of fruit which arrive, from Svdnev hv the Mahono on Men dav was one of the largest ever sen here from Australia. There were ncaIv six thousand eases, principally dnrins and oranges, besides pineapples passion fruit, lemons, lnquats, nr bananas. The fruit was m good eon ditiuii The bananas were trom Queens land, being Die first Australian banana brought to the Auckland market, T prices realised for Diem are umlerstoo have lieon very satisfactory.

ROUND IN HAP BOUT!. AUCKLAND, Sept. 2. Tin- <|vad body of a man was found j„ the harbour unrecognisable. hoc letters and a railway pass in the P°c;-' ~s lead to the coni lesion that it is o| \. E. Skilton, a well-known soliciter, who has been missing sine,. August 30th.