TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[llY TEL KG RA1 1 II —CEll PRESS ASSOCIATION. j HOTEL TRAGEDY. WELLINGTON, October 17. All iltquo.st was held to-day regarding the death of Edward Fitzgerald Gould. American Engineer, who was found dead outside tip. Empire Hotel at an early hour 011 Saturday morning. Deceased who was about. 38 years of ago, fell from a, window on the third floor of the hotel. Evidence was given that deceased was a man of regular habits, and on Friday night at 11 o'clock was in good health and perfectly sober. The window of the room was -open to its fullest extent. The blind which was drawn was torn and tile bottom crushed; probably caused through Leing ,-ilight hold of. The window sill was abort, two feet from" the floor. The bed had liccn «sed. A verdict of accidental death v.-s returned. The Coroner suggested that the licensee should have bars put across the window.

country clubs pkotfst. WKiUJXCTOX. Oct. 17. Delegates from the Country Racing Clubs* Association, waited on tin* I’rimc .Minister this morning to protect against the recommendation of the Racing Commttce. Mr Bruce. President, said that if the recommendation were adopted ns a whole, sixteen country clubs would be wiped out of existence. He suggested that the Minister of Intern'd Affairs should allocate the addition 1 country club permits, but that t'c fourth schedule which named the clubs from which the commission thought tote permits ‘should Be withdrawn, should he deleted. .Mr Massey said that the report must he presented to Parliament but. what Parliament would (hi with it be could not say. His own uninion was that the report would have a stormy ; passage hut By that lie did not mean it would not get thro'mh in mine form or another. I liquor. ix xo-lictxsf \rfa. MASTKIiTOX. October 17.

|yy i ooper licensee nt tm* t. must icq* Hotel, was convicted ami filed £lO and costs for failing to furnish the Court with a cony of an order for liquor to bo brought into the no-li'-euM* district of U istrrtnn. Mr Free S.M.. held it was a case of wilful m-gleet. On a second charge of sunnlying liquor without an order, accused was pnnuhted ynd lined L~ and costs. John B. dehns. a ta s i-driver. fur carjying liouo: without an erd *r. and aim being a cirrier in a r ••-lirevs,. d'striet. tor. having removed |ique t * frrm his vehicle except at the i-cdderne of the purchaser, was fined I'd on mu h char*/** A charge nf sly-./vog -filing again t him w;i< di-.mi • «>d A !M‘*l*>T< FO|» THi:FT eurmrm.v October i*.

In • . illicit ion with tin* arrest of two young natives, Wiremu Namana and Wircmn Xacra. on a charge of lu-cak-ing and entering a storeroom at Gladstone I Intel, and lemoving a quantity of beer, four further arrests have Been mad*', ft nppcaiC tlia.t a fortnight previously a similar offence was committed. Constables Millar and Colbiirne on Sunday arrested at (Jladstom*. Hangi Te.imunia. Kewiti Ilenii. Bern Pannpa. A fourth native who was implicated war arrested at Pap.wai. Tlu* four appeared :.t Court yesterday and remanded till Tlrirsdnv next. Xo bail was asked for THE TYPHOID OITBBFAIC. LEVIN. Oet. I*.. In a si,•Moment to-day. Dr Yalintine said every thing was sat isfnetory ill regard to the outbreak of typhoid among the natives at Muhunoa pah. There has been no more cases, and the hospital will he closed, the piticnt- going back to their homes, when* they are being attended by nurses daily. Stringent measures are being taken to prevent the spread of infection. and 1 did not anticipate any extension of t’e outbreak.

AUDIT OFFICE WARNING. WELLIN'(.'TON. (fit. II

The rapidly growing practice* of tiling the annual ''washing-up” Hill to validate violations of statutes bv local bodies is stuniglv criticised iu tic* Auditor-General's annual reporc. lie suggests that UMqiicsliiuiahly two years’ rigid enforcement of tin* la*, would have highly beneficial disciplinary elfect, reducing deputations and demands for condoning legislation to 111* minimum. To pursue the present course multiplies tln* evil annually. The present practice cunslit ul c-s one* of tl.e most baffling, disheartening impediments with which the* Audit Ollicc* lias to contend in its endeavour to secure observance of statutory obligations. Ii is submitted that sound, and, in the main, wise principles of law cannot he modified or liven iildcn year alter year to meet local demands without * undermining that respect, lor them which is essential to iln* maintenance of a proper standard ol conduc-t ol loeal body administration, or of any type ol statutory administration. Where* un-

due* haictship or unantieipated injury results from the application ni a general law relief is wat ranted, but not for the deliberately willul contraventions thereof, which certain astute local bodies now indulge in, relying upon escaping from the oonsequences thereof by a process which appears to be all the more* easily operated it the matter at issue* is of considerable magnit tide. DORGAN FI N'D CLOSED. TIM'ARIf, October 18. Tin* fund to assist- the* widow ami children of Constable llnrgan. murdereel at Tiinaru on August 2clh.. has now closed. The* Secretary (.7. Italic) states the* total amount including Government subsidy of L‘2oo amounts to £1,30-7 18s. The disposition of the fund will lie* derided at a meeting of subscribers.