TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1921, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

luv i ei.eu aaeu mat cress association. SHEER RUSTLING. t CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 1!) Six charges of rustling were preferred against littery Albert Print, aged 29, at the Magistrate’s Court. The cattle stolon were valued at TIH-1. Accused was committed for trial. Bail was tillowed in two sureties of {.“200 on eh. AUCKLAND “CLLRGYM AN’’ DECLARED AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL. AUCKLAND. Nov 19. The man who posed in Auckland as “Tlie Rev. Mr Don, M.A. Claude Osmond Barker and was sentenced tu three years’ imprisonment for false pretences, appeared before Mr Justice Adams and a jury in the Supreme Court yesterday, charged with theft. After a retirement of a quarter of tilt hour a verdict of guilty on the first count was returned. A rider was added that in the jury's opinion every, facility bad been given by the Crown to the accused in conducting his case. “I am glad you have added that rider." said his Honour. A list of mitt ietions. dating from 19Ilf. was nad out. and accused admitted them with the oxeeplb n of one. A term ol two years' imprisonment nun hard labour was imposed, to he cumulative upon the sentence he is at present serving, and he was declared an habitual criminal. Accused appeared considerably affected by the sentence.

KVA DING Til l'', CUSTOMS. AUCKLAND. Nov 17. At, the Magistrate’s Court. I l 'rank Dawsey, who was discharged yesterday ’a information under the Customs Act. charging him with smuggling jewellery valued at £7O, again appeared to-dav charged with having concealed dutiable goods on hoard the AVaiotapn. Dawsey ha<l signed a list, and failed to declare £7O worth of gold wire brooches brought with him from America. The goods woiy concealed in an overcoat belonging to a member of the steamer’s crew. Accused was lined £IOO. in default three months' imprisonment. FA KM ICR KILLED U'KSTJ’nRT. Nov. 20. ( liris Low, ,i married man with a family of eight cliildicu. the eldest ol which is l.'l, was killed on Friday whilst hushlclling on his farm at Oparnrn. DOUBLE TRAGEDY. WiIANGARKI, Nov. 19. A man named Kdwnrd 'Thomas Smith, aged .'II, was found dead hv two of his brothers yesterday, lying, on the Hour of Ins icsidcuco at Kara, 12 miles from Whaneuivi, with a bullet wound in his head. The circumstances (to not suggest, suicide. Later, John Martin, Smith, aged 19. youngest brother ol deceased, was discovered dead in the hush, two miles trout the scene of the first discovery. ’The hotly was crouched over n discharged gun, and apparently indicating suicide. GIRL KILLED lIY MOTOR. AUCKLAND, Nov. ‘2O A girl named Madge Cooper, aged ten. of Tiuikapuna, was knocked down by a motor ear. and died Irom her injuties in the hospital. LABOCRKR DROWNKD. AUCKLAND, Nov. ‘2O While fishing at Pink, a titan named John Archer, aged :V>, a labourer, was washed Irom the rocks, and diowned Three others were with him, hut Atelier disappeared immediately. FREEZING DISPUTE CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. IS.

The freezing companies have stopped negotiating with the workers' representatives because freezing workers " Hawke’s Hay and Poverty May L’T lowed the l niou’s in-l i net ions from headquarters not to resume till a now award is out. ’I 'c Court of At bit rail,i- healing evidence at Wellington and t hristt liiin-li, pi opa I a ton I n making a new a waul. The Court had asked the Employe! s’ and Employees’ bedorations to negotiate. IM-’stn.T OL MOTOR CO I I i HI.KNIIKIM. Nov- It’As tho outcome of a collision between a motor car and a gig Lpt iog C.cck road recently, in which Rose Stafford received injuries causing her .loath, John bmlyn Thomas, tho driver ~(• t| lt . was charged this mornmg with manslaughter. A,-,'sued was remanded till I'tiday. bail being allowed at sell L'2)H, and one cutely of Mud. fire brigades contests. WESTPORT, Nov. 2.) The Fire Brigade demonstration was bold at Dennistoit on Saturday, with . ompoii tors represonting Dcnniston, Wostport, Kooftou, Grey mouth and KuThe Gtoy loam won the one-man , oupling competition. tho twocoupling, and the four-men reel. Wostport woo tho livo-mon carry. Dcnniston won the three-men event. AIR MACHINE DAMAGED. WELLINGTON, Nov. 21

One Avici machine a ilived from Blenheim safely, hut eamc to grief. Engine trouble developed and in a lull, fierce noillieily. pilot Park hod an unenviable task, lie managed to make a landing on a gravelly beach neat Pod rocks, about lour miles ironi [slam! Bay, towards Terawlnti. and this required no little skill, for all the coast there is rough and rocky and presents v,., v few chances fm an aeroplane. No sooner bad be landed than a gust of wind hurled the machine into the water, where a high sea was running, and damaged it. Assistance came from the city and with some diflieulty the plane was dismantled so that it can be brought in for repairs, which will take a fortnight.