TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[llY TELEGRAPH —rFJt press absooiation] ; POUND DROWNED. | CHRISTCHURCH, September 4. The body of Hubert Parkin, owner |ol tlie Ilfracombe Private Hotel, Akaroa. was found in Akaroa Harbour on Saturday He had licen in ill health lately At tlie inquest the verdict was one of suicide while temporarily insane. Old) MAN SUFFOCATED ROTORUA. September 4. •Tames McTntyrc, 84, a retired builder lodgin', at Edinburgh House was found dead in bed at *8.15 this morning. Apparently he was suffocated by smoke. A servant smelt the smoke coming from his room, which was found full \ of smoke and the bedclothes afire and i smouldering. It was soon extinguished and no damage was done to the room. I The body was not burned, except a i small patch on the left arm. Deceased j bad a candle in the room and list'd to j smoke in bed. He was married. His I wife is supposed to be in Australia Mid j grmvn-iip children in New Zealand. FREEZING TRADES DISPUTE. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 3 ! An industrial dispute has been filed he!ween the New Zealand Refrigerating Co., Ltd., and the Canterbury EreC'-'.ing Works and Related Trades’ r.mployecs' Union, and lias been set down tor hear- . ing before the Council of Conciliation on the 28tli insi. Similar disputes have been inaugurated hy the employers throughout the Dominion, and hearings | before Councils- of Conciliation in the North Island have been fixed on dates ( prior to the hearing in Christchurch ; j riie hearing in Dunedin is to take place . oil the 20th inst. The assessors who will represent the Canterbury freezing.. Company are Sir Francis Boys and j Messrs D. J. Shun and E. G. Norman, j OBITUARY I HASTINGS. September 4. j By cable last night. Air T. Clarkson received the news of the death in Svdmy of his brother, Mr J. B. Clark-, son, after a prolonged and painful ill- 1 ness. Deceased was born ill Christ- . , hiiicli ill 1870. and ill her earlier years was well-known in cycle racing circles. A SUICIDE. ] DUNEDIN. Sept. 5. i Robert Gonrley, a. widower, a return- j soldier, suicided by throwing himrelf 1 into the w ater in tlie harbour. j A MOTOR ACCIDENT. WATAIATE, Sept. 5 Wjilut Snuirt. n youiijr man. a. biicklavit’s labuiiroi*, frat‘inn‘<l bis skull and ivcrivod injuries to kis c»yt» ns ibo result. of j*. motor somersntiltimr at 1 *25 n.m. on Sunday. Tho driver, Wibinni (lardin**, est-nped with slight injuries. It is supposed to have happened while driving at a, good speed, rounding n bend. The ear was right side up faeuig the opposite direction, when iu*si*tnnoo arrived. Smart's condition is serious. i Wl ATIOV SKHMCK msTPONKI). I WKU.IN’fiTOV. I \ n ae: ini mail service, hot ween Blenheim ami Christchurch would have cemme-need to-morrow umler normal conditions. Imt owinp; to the retrenchn cut policy of the Post Oflice, in common with other public departments, the inauguration of tliis necessary hut somew-hat expensive link with ail Isolated centre is postponed indefinitely.

ACCUSED COAfAfITS SUICIDE. FEILDIXO, Sept. I dames Jorgensen was to have appeared in the Court this morning on a charge of stealing a heifer. Early in the morning a note was sound in his gate at KiniholLm, stating that his body would he found ill a certain place. A search followed and the body was found with a rifle alongside. OREGON TIAIDER. DUNEDIN. Sept. 2 News has been received ol a lilrthor and pronounced fall in the prices of Oregon timber. Supplies in Duuediii are more than enough to meet the present demand, for in the absence ol big building eiiiistrm tum very little is going into use. It remains to he seen whether the lower prices which look likely will Stimulate consumption, but in the meantime holders ol big stocks of Oregon arc faced with the problem of disposing of quantities of timber houghi when the market was much higher than at present.