TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[ in' TKI.KCIt.M’II I'KK I'HKSS ASSOCIATION ] TH AM HS KANO CONTKST. THAMKS, Oct. 0. Tin* lin ml Contest Inis opened with eight i>nmls and about two hundred ><>loists. Kuphonium solo: J. Lowe (Now Plymouth). Jill; K. Beasley (Auckland Uegimontal). P*J; l*’. A. Clarke (Whakataiie) I>2. lost Hymn: New Plyihoutli ')(), Dauuevirko Si), Hamilton 88. Pass trombone: A Hanh»y I New Plymouth), Si): S. Buchanan (.Hamilton). So; J. Bobinson (lluruki), 81b AN APPKAI. AU.OWKD. AI’CIvLAXI), October d. ,! udgo Hordman allowed the appeal by the Inspector against tlie decision of Mr Cutten S.M., in dismissing a -ase agaijmiL AYidtV Buchanan, a hakcr, charged with selling short weight bread. Defendant bad stated when selling the bread lint it was not under 111: 1 lozs and might lie two pounds, which the Magistrate accepted as a com pliancc with the Act but Justice Herdman held that the purchaser was entitled tii know tin* true weight of the loaf supplied, and should not he >eft in any doubt. The case was referred back to the Magistrate. M INKB’S I)K \TH. DrXKDIN. October «i. James (K Bon ike. one of the miners buried by a fall of coal in Ivaitungata mine on Tuesday succumbed this inorn!mg to his injuries. Deceased was a .single man, aged 01, and was buried* for sixteen hours before being exlrij rated. A Still lOCS CHAIIOti. • TIM API'. Oct. r>. Charles Auty, aged Id, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’* Court to indecent assault on a girl of three years and was commit .ted to l lie Supreme Court for sentence. A snoiDK. BKKKTOX, Oct. d. Prank Wills, aged tl, married, eomj mitted suieide liv hanging to-day. He had boon ill for a long time and was much depressed.