TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

j [by TELUGKAriI—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. J PROFESSOR RESIGNS, j CHRISTCHURCH. October 19. i Air Scott, Professor of Engineering at Canterbury College has resigned owing to ill-health. AN ASSAULT CHARGE. WAIRO-V, October 19. At tho Magistrate’s Court this niorning a negro, William Huntly Spencer, was charged with assaulting Leonard Storey and causing actual bodily harm. The informants evdence went to show he accused Spencer of supplying his wife with fiipior, and told him to knock the game off. or meet trouble. Accused immediately knocked the informant down and rendered him uneti'iiscioiits. After cross examination tile Magistrate said he could hot semi the case to the Supreme Court. The charge was then reduced to common assault. The rase is proceeding.

A REPORT DENIED CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 19. The report that Professor Scott, of tho Canterbury College School of Engineering lias resigned, is incorrect. Ho only a))],lied for leave of absence. BA PITS'T CONFER KXCE, WANGANUI, Oct, 19. The Baptist Conference to-day appointed Mr J. .1. North, one of its New Zealand delegates, to a Pan-Baptist Congress at. Paris next year. Mr and Mrs Tunnielid'e were also requested to he delegates. Tho exceptive has instructed to arrange an evangelical mission to the West Coast. The Conference passed a resolution regretting the recent amendments made to the diVorco law, which increases the facilities for easy divorce. Tln> Conference is convinced these eailliot hut be a source of national weakness. The Conference urges the repeal of these divorce enactments. A resolution was curried commending the intercession of Divine aid and trust, for the Conference. The Conference, decided that Parliament. la, urged to give greater protection to girls. thus abolishing whal is known as “the reasonable to believe” clause. The Conference concluded to-night with a big meeting, addressed by the Revs. North mid Archer.

LAWYER IN TROUBLE. Auckland, net, 20. Justice Hcrdmnli. made an older, on the application by Auckland District Law Society, suspending Ktaitcis Tipping from practice, ponding the decision of the Court of Appeal on a motion to strike Tipping off the roll. A FATALITY. TaUMARUXUI. 1 id. '..‘(i. All ith i'oj.n! rosiilt** lm»rp<’!K‘(J yusti’nl;! \- ■'«! Hi mini, nine mil<>s from Tniimariiiitii. Reginald Lyons •aged foiirtcdii. was returning from school with Duke Shields, aged eleven when a tall of earth took place and both well • buried. Shields was got out alive hut Lyons was dead when extricated. AVIATION ACT CHARGE. ’ITMARU. Oct 20. In tlu> Magistrate’s Court to-day Phillip Kennedy Fowler, aviator, employed by tho New Zealand Aero Transport Coy. was charged with trick (lying at all altitude over the town so low that it was dangerous to the public. Another aviator in the same plane was also simlarlv charged hut is ill. and Kenior-Sorgt. Kuliev applied for a remand in both cases for a. fortnight, which was grained. It is tile first ease in N.Z. under the Aviation Act. BALLARAT RANI) CONTEST. DUNEDIN. Oct. 20. ! A private vahle advises tin' Knikorai Ruud was placed first in the septette. 1 and fourth in the quartette at the Ballarat competitions. In the solos Nelson took second prize for the baritone, Wheclim third for tenor horn and Wells