TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

I lIV THI.HfiHAI’II- •* '■l'.r.SS ASSOCIATION I 1 ,- INANCIAI. DKIiATK. WKI.I.INCTO.N. N<>v. M. AI.OMI luilf n <l"zin more speakers ,*\|h*i■ is*(l in take port "I t |u > ■' •uiii:il Del,which will he rt'snmi'il i..-iii..miw. nml slionM «■'"> XN, '‘ K ne-dnv. Tin'll tin- Cnvcranmnl proposes 111 inilii III•• till' hues <>f 11l, ‘ V i "' ,M llill ,\ s a preliminnrv iimlertakiMf: a i-ninniilll'.' is pmcewlinn oil a revision of tin' linin'This will In' n Ihisv week for Mr : Dow Hie Stewart. Ministerof Customs, who Ims prepared nil details eonnoetod with ill.- revision, nml Ims diirino the hist ten ilnys keen inmimkiti'il with (leI, M Ini hois nml ruin in ii nie:i t ions relnfine to iilter.il ions desired hy vnrious seelioiis of m:iiiiil':ii'tiiriiiir interests. It is milir.ipnlnil tlinl si'ViTitl weeks will lie occupied ill the progress of passing I lie now 1 1 ilfs of duties. HOY ACrTIVF.NTAUtV SHOT. TK AWAMTTr, Nov. It. At. tlio (’oroiiiitl inquest on Owen Chnnles (tei'liiniii. need lit vein's who was iicci.lf'iitnlly shot on Saturday at I’nlermi’ni. the evhlenee pointeil to his I,;,vine si uni tile.] through into :i deep rnhliil liiiitow. mid used the gun hutfc to prevent his fulling. He wns shot thnniL'h the lirenst, dentil being instmitmiemis. SKI.F-DKXI Al. Al’l’KAli. WKI.I.fNCTOX. Xnv to. The Snlvntion Army's self deiiint nppenl Inis rnised elose mi fnO.OOO against £.-.7,01)0 hist year. The result is ronsiileri'd silt isfnetory under t lie eiiviimstmiees. Wellington division emitriImted £OllB. including llleidioiiil. £ I ,TOf): Nelson. £1.070: Wellington City 110. Aiieklnnd gave Cl2,fiHS: ('lulistelinreh. £7.800; Dunedin. £B.SIS Centrnl North Division £1:1.0118. includin'. Wanganui. £12:18 : New Plymouth. £1.001: (Jislinriie. fc 1.828; Mnsterion. L' 1.018.

I’orn.ATioN I'Tr.rnEs. WKI.I.TN'CTOX. Nm- m. I li< hi mid i liiifrrfilion (inures fur si\ monllis ended Sept. HOtli only di’d-loso n min of S:-!-.’. (iwinj! to n large iiiiinbnr of visitors wlio left, during tlmt norinil. Tlio iicliml figures, however ol I'ortnn in'llf residents arriving are 7.H0" aminst 1 ,o.‘ll leaving mid tliis shows nil not mil on in of (5.304. Forxii miowxKD. AfAHTOX. Nov. 1/5. Tliniinis Milos, flood eighty-one, n resident of Afitrton for. forty ypars, was foil ml drowned in n water TioTe tlih

ESCAPEE SENTENCED. DUNEDIN, Nov. 15. Allan Aiteheson, the escapee captured on Sunday was charged this morning with escaping from legal custody and was sentenced to an extra 12 months oil his 5 year sentence. YN APPOINTMENT. NELSON, Nov. 15. H j. Thornton, Secretary of Taranaki Board has been selected from 09 applicants for the position of Secretary of tbo Nelson Education Board. A FATALITY. NELSON. Nov. 15. A fatality occurerd on Wangamoa Rond. Erie Drew Close, single, 31 years of age, employed by ilie County C'kmucLl. was run over by a dray. A verdict of accidental death was returned. obituary. NET,SON. Nov. 15. Obituary.- Mrs Francis Edwards, relict of tbo late Henry Edwards, long eonneeted with the old firm of Selanders mull C'n. She arrived in llio ship T.i.u-d Auckland in February 1842, with her parents Mr and Mrs John Nixon. PAWNING WAR MEDALS. AUCKLAND, Nov. 10

A fair number nf.-mcdals won in the late war arc being offered to pawnbrokers in Auckland, but the latter will not advance money upon them. Enquiries made showed that a certain class of men were offering their medals for sale. .Most of these, in the opinion of the pawnbrokers, are not in distress. The pawnbrokers staled that the monetary value (if a medal was not more than 2s, and so the sale of one would not greatly assist a mail who was really in distress. The medals being offered are childly Yictnry medals, bub attempts have been made to raise money on a few Military Medals, and an odd D.C.M. A certain number of war medals for campaigns of the past have always found their way into the pawnshops, and must nl the local dealers have at least one nr two ill stock. They are practically unsaleable, however, and in most eases have been pawned among „ variety of oilier articles. Local pawnbrokers seem to be agreed that War medals at present are of no value to anyone lint the possessors, though in a hundred years' time they may be nl value from tin* collector's point ol vie". "Buving war .medals I min a man is like giving him two or (luce shillings, one pawnbroker stated.