TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[by telegraph—per press association] TAIMMIU COAL MINK AFIRE. AUCKLAND, October 3 ■A Huntly telegram states fire oe mured in Taupiri coal mine at Rotowaro on Sunday morning. It is reported to be still burning strongly. Tim mine is closed for work. Water is being pumped into it from the swamps, APPEAL COURT DECISION. WELLINGTON, October 3. The Full Court delivered judgment this morning in the ease of M heeler versus Cooper and others (Mar Pensions Board) heard on July 19th. Jhe facts were that the husband of Mrs Wheeler was in receipt of a war pension because of partial incapacity. The Board refused an application on the grounds that the husband was not incapacitated from work. Plaintiff contended the Board was bound to grant seine pension and a]qilied to the Court for a mandamus to hear the applic itiun anil grant some pension. ll was held by Court in its judgment that tin- Pensions Board had not refused to exercise its .jurisdiction hut him in the exercise of its jurisdiction refused to grant pension. The Court moreover, was not satisfied that the decision of the Board was erroneous. The Board was not compelled to grant a nominal pension if it thought the application without merit. The Court therefore dismissed tile application. Costs were allowed the defendant Board, on the lowest scale. HON. A. M. MYERS RESIGNS. AUCKLAND. Oct. 3. lion. A. M. Myers lias forwarded his resignation to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, owing to his doctor's advice. The effects sustained by a recent fall from a tram ear renders ibis course necessary, and because for personal reasons lie must live in l.nndim ai the end of next voar. OBITUARY. CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 3. Obituary. Mrs Ellen Sherlock, aged 83. She arrived in New Zealand by the barque Gertrude in 1840. Her first husband was Edward Jermingliam Wakefield, a soil of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and her second, the late Charles Sherlock, a well-known Canterbury journalist. FOUND DEAD. THAMES. Oct. 3. The body of Charles Squires. 08 years, a reient arrival from Camilla, was found on Tarnru Beach this morning. Letters indicated the intention to suicide. A LAD WENT ASAILING. THAMES, Oct. 3. George Brooks, aged fourteen, employed on a farm at llnurnki Plain, disappeared last M'ednescl.-iy. lie apparently walked to Coromandel, v here lie lionided a big launch and put to sea. Tim engine was useless, so lie hoisted a sail. The police wen- informed and set I lit. and the buy was oiertakeii, sailing Miei i il' tuwaids Anikin lid. having nearly I Hissed the Gull. lie bad eaten only a lew biscuits ill five days.