TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1921, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

' JtV TKI.IiCKAI'II —i’Ett 1-HKSS ASSOCIATION FATALLY SCALDED. DENE-DIN, November 11. Herbert Wilson, a married man, aged thirty, died in hospital as the result of scalds received on Monday, when lie fell into a tub of boiling water at the by-products works, at Green Island.

SEP El lA X Nl' AT lON BOARD. WELLINGTON, November 10. Al the quarterly meeting of the Put* lie S'-rvieo Superannuation Boaid, .t unis slat,si that 17!) contributors had retired on ac-ount of age or length , 1 service, and had been grnntfd allowalters totalling MO. 100 per annum. Emir who were unfit had heen granted allow a,a-es totalling £10;! p.-r innum. In mil ,e,|m ill,- of l',-lii••in, ills :x ,-i u - ed com pi mil'll ion to the amount .ol l'-T.T.S-‘n iieeamo a liability in the -n lierauiiuatiiui filial. and a < riiv-jn>ilil-ing relief to i In- ( Wi-olida led I' mil.

LOAN I'OI.L CAIMG! D. WANG AN FI, Nnv.mb-r il. Y*-ry keen interest was tak-ii ‘awlayin the C-KbOtJI) loan proposiil to eoinplete til- installalion of a -1,-:.-a plant* for tramway,: and lighting. '1 ho loan was carried by 1100 votes to 11-U. About OHIO persons were eligible to rote. ELECT IUC WORKS. WELLINGTON. November 1.0. The City Council lias i-eeei'-.'d nine tenders, ineluding one from S, tz.erland a,ml one from Sweden, for 'ts new electric works involving the expenditure of some £400,000 subject '.*) the I Iw-ing raised. The tender of the Metropolitan Vickers Company. Manchester, has heen accepted I'm a -illO 1 ' kilowatt alternator and tondensing plant. Baheoek and \\ ilcoek s t-mh-i for boilers etc., was also accepted, but both |*'ires were not disc! 'Si-d.

l’F PONG A COAL MINI* CI.t'SF.D WELLINGTON. ,ov. 10. Telegraphic advice his be--n rei-eiv-ed hv Mr P. O’Rourke, sen.-,ary -,f the N«w- Zealand Miu-rs’ Federation that t-lm North Cats, coalmine at Puponga. Fan’well Spit, has closed down. Information as tw t-lie cause is not to hand. BISHOP NE-VILL’S FSTW'K DUNEDIN. Novemb-'r 10. The will of the late Bishop .Neville has heen filed for probate al ii-slcr til.j value of O-'IS.OOf;. Tin- trust res have j been directed' to pay to the Dunedin Diocesan Trust Board the sum of £IOOO ! which is to he invested and the hieoni■ | from it paid to the Chapter ut St j Paul's Cathi-dral. to lie expended at its | discretion towards the payment of the 'current yearly stipends of tile elergv j officiating at the Cathedral, i e -ownrds 1 the payment of the sti|-■ -rid • I addi - tional clergy nffieiat ing there, or to wards the other expenses or upkeep of the Cathedral. The sum of £IO n O is to i be paid to the Board as a further en- | (lowiueiit of Selwyn College, and a j similar amount is to he inv "nod and | applied as part of the general t lnir.-h 1 fund. MAIL TRAINS DELAYED. ; WELLINGTON. November 11. I The d-ra ilment of some w ag, ms i f a hallast train at Manakaii this morn ing caused three express trains to he delayed, hut no other serious result* followed. The replacement of the dc- | i oiled trucks was effected as mo. kly -is i pnssihle to clear tile line lor thrmi-.-h traffie. The Main Trunk express train I from Auckland, due normally at l.iu 1 p.m. was held up for two hours. i'hexpress to \ew Plymouth was al-'o held : up for two hours, and tile expn-ss t-i j Napier delayed for an hour and a half I ESCAPEE R F.( A PTC I! ED. DFNKDIN. Nov. I 3 Allan Mili-hell Aitehismi. who was seiili-m-ed in live years’ imprisoMineol lor a serious assault on a police CotiJ stahle, and escaped limn custody ml the : I»11 1 iost. was captured this mnining al t’ppcr .lunelimi, within four inih-s of tin- cily. Plunkett, a one-armed pri- ! smier. who a scaped with Ailibismi, is j still at huge. | .MURDER OF ZA.M IiI'KKA. OPOTIKI, Nov. PA j The inquest concerning the death ol - Paul Zulu Rukka has opened. Il was I adjourned mi the -ippliea 1 ion of the ! pobei- tin h w,m- k. Then- are no new di-velopiuellts. It is believed that more j than one mail is implicated in the i l ime. fatal LANDSLIDE. WANGANUI. Nov. 81. 1 Tin- police have lieen advised that 1 a landslide at the Govei-uineni relief 1 works at Rmuinap.-ioa, up the river, resulted in a workman named Thomas Dwyer, being killed, il lid another, \ | Rudd being badly injured.