TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1921, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

[BV TKMSOItAI’U I’ER PIIESS ASSOCIATION, SITREME COURT. AUCKLAND, Oct. .0. The following prisoners were sentenced at the Supreme Court to-day:— Samuel Stuart Hill, for the theft of £ll from his employers, Burns Philip and Co., two years reformative treatment: Loo Martin, for bigamy at Auckland, twelve months' in gaol; Leo Phillip Wadelield, for the theft of a registered letter and £2O at Opotiki, six months' hard labour; Charles Sibley, for breaking and entering and theft at Opotiki, twelve months’ probation; Theodore Ernest James, theft ufgoods valued at £llO from tile Kainpni Woollen Co., two years’ probation.

M’IUK DESERTING. IN YEHC’ARGILK. Oct. li. David Harris, who had been brought hack from Mol bon me, was sentenced to twelve months' reformative treatment far wife desertion. The secretary of tile Charitable Aid Board said that the accused had cost the Hoard £IOO. Cases of desertion wei'o increasing, and lie asked that an example should ho made. LORD JKLLIOOE’S OPINION. M'ELLLXGTOX. Oct. I Speaking at the .Municipal Association Conference. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellieoo referred to the question of unemployment. He knew that the problem was causing considerable anxietv throughout the Dominion, hut one could not forget that New Zealand was very happily placed in comparison with other portions of the Empire ami no doubt with other countries ol the world in that respect. That fact, however, was not likely to make anybody in New Zealand relax their efforts in trying to find the solution of the problem, because no one would he really hannv until every man who wanted to work in the Dominion was provided with employment. AN AIR FLIGHT. WELLINGTON, Oct. I The first Aurkland-M'ellington Right was accomplished to-day. when Mr Leo Walsh, managing director ot the Ne" Zealand Flying School. Auckland. Mi R. Johnson, works manager, ami Mr (; Rett, pilot', landed sal’eli on Hie harbour. Great inteiest was taken in the flight. As the machine came over the mountains it llew gra. efiilly to the harbour. Cheers weie given and the vi-itei- were congratulated on the sue,„..s at lending their journey. The i„a 'bine is a super-marine Hying boat of 2311 horse-power. It h’lt Auckland nt 7 o a.in. to-day. landed at Kawhia nt Sls a m for fuel, left Kawhai a’ s I.*, a.m.. arrived at Wanganui at 1 1 15 a m., left Wanganui at 1.1-i p.m. and arrived at Wellington at 3.S p.m. The total distance of 188 miles was covered in shr (imin. It is Hie ong.-I distance ever llown in New 'Amhind.

PASTORAL LEASES, WELLINGTON. October '<■ Tl, • Minister of Lands by the informal method of interject ion during a speech I,v Mr l.vsiiar. aiiimuiiocd to the House tiial the Government will introduce legislation dealing with pastoral lenses. Ih(suits had shown that although they had bee,, operating many years their production was declining. Tenants should have some encouragement to make improvements, by being given greater security. H„ n , l). ||. Guthrie: You will have full proposals this session. All'S l.ysliar: T am gUd to hear it. (1 localise I am aware of some of tiles' holdings which twenty years ago carried thirty thousand to forty thousand Hi,.,.., hut’ are now only carrying 0000 t„ -loot). It would he better to give these tenants the lauds almost for mu thin" so long as they actually earned ,„:t in,::re .'fincnts. K was not 'the rent which paid the Government hut the labour u hi.'ll Hie-C lands could v k|e and the income derived there from, MAIL SERVICED. an interesting experiment. M'ELLINGTON. October ft. Major (Hidden, president of the World's Board of Aeronautical Commissioner’s. has written to the Minister of Defence (Sir llenton Rhodes) advising him that two of tlm letters sent around the world westward by steamer for purposes of comparison with an air mad service, on via Japan. Ceylon and England, and the other via New Zealand and England, both arrived at X' " York at 1 n.m. on August 22m1. a coincidence that might not occur om-e in a, thousand times The letters sent eastward via New Zealand arrived in New York just seven days later, hut at time of writing (August 29th) the fourth letter eastward via Japan. Ceylon and England had not reached New York The four letters were all despatched from New York by their res- . peetive routes on May 10th. last. The two westward travelling letters occupied 101 days or 2.190 hours in transit. The delay in remailiug was about four days, thus making the actual transit time too days, or 2.100 hours. \ dirigible at an average speed of only 50 miles per hour would make the jotir- ! nov in less than 500 hours Hying night, I suit day anil an aeroplane would do it in the same time omitting night Hying j States Major (Hidden. The air route ' nroiand the world as planned by the World’s Board or Aoroiinuliesl Commissioners is 22.207 miles.