TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1921, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

j_DY TKI.KU IMl'll—l'Ull I'IUiSS ASSOCIATION A FIRE. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 21. A fire at Winton early on Sunday morning destroyed AFWilliam Bros, oil store, Coles’ saddlery store, Kennedy's joinery workshop, Pittendrighi’s bulk store, and Hamilton’s stables, in which it originated. The damage is estimated at £IOOO, and insurances amount to £600..

SKXTKNCES IMPOSED. , AUCKLAND. Nov. 10. At the .Supreme Court, Henry .lames Hausen, for forgery and uttering in connection with two libellous letters reflecting on the character of two Syrians, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. George Cooper .Jackson, for receiving butter stolen from the Niagra, was sentenced to six months’ : George Caffroy. for escaping from custody’, twelve months’ ; John Patrick Donovan, for indei'cnt assault on a male, live years.

Three lads of sixteen. James Elliott, Edgar John Gilbert Gregory, and Erie Onion, appeared [or sentence for thefts of postal packets at Taumaranui. Tho Judge said they appeared to have started out on course of systematic plundering. Tt was impossible to gauge the misery which might lie caused by tampering with postal packets. Elliott was sentenced to two years’ reformative treated, and the others to one year each.

BREAKING AND ENTERING. NAPIER, Nov. 21. At the Supreme Court. Andrew Murray, of I'Yaserlowii, a storekeeper, who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft of goods, valued at LdOO, was sentenced to two and a. half years’ imprisonment, with hard labour.

BAIL ESTREATED. AUCKLAND. Nov. 21. At the Supreme Court t,he Crown Prosecutor sought to estreat the hail which Thomas C. Nicholson, a. frozen meat works employee, provided for tho liberation of David M. Todd, a wellknown criminal, who afterwards left for Australia. Nicholson was described as a decent man taken in by a gang of criminals. Tt was staled that he provided Todd’s bail at the request of a, friend whom liu met at the war. The Judge said an important principle was involved, and the hail must he estreated.

SELLING A SECURITY. DUNEDIN, Nov. 21. At the Police Coudt, Thomas AYillia''i Harper pleaded guilty to selling chattels mortgaged by him to Donald Reid and Co. Aroused, a Waikouaiti farmer, borrowed LUO on implements and crop and disposed of the security later to a fellow farmer. TILE TARIFF. WELLINGTON. Nov. 21. Tlie Government is still dealing with the tariff, mainly in the direction of adjusting anomalies that inevitably creep into such a document. It* w ill probably bo found that Australia will lie placed, meantime, in t'lie third schedule, and, that subsequently amicable negotiations regarding reciprocity will he entered into.

UNION OFFICIAL AfTSSTNG. WELLINGTON, Nov. 21. The police here are making enquiries as to tho whereirtiouts of one of the militant labour union officials, who is said to have left for another country with a large sum of tnonev —some thousands of pounds—that was in his keeping.

THE PEAR MITE. NET,SON, Nov. 21 At a meeting of the Provincial Fruitgrowers’ Council, the chairman (Mr F. E.TXot tago) said Mr Thorp (orchard instructor) would have an unpleasant, announcement to make. Tt was that, the peai 1 mite had been discovered at Tasman.

Air Thorp said this serious post had been discovered so far in one orchard only. Tt gave great, trnnbl,. in Auckland and Hawke’s Ray. and was most difficult to deal with. Immediate steps had been taken to deal with the discovery. and they hoped to lie able to eradicate tho pest. Tlie post had probable been introduced in nursery stock from the North Island, and the diseoverv conveyed a. lesson in regard to fireblight. AH’ C. ,T. Harley said be ba 1 just returned from Auckland, where h,, had learnt tli.nl the pear mite was one of the very worst, pests, even, worse, lie believed, than firol,light. If it got a hold here it would he a calamity, and it would he useless to start, a pear orchard.

Tima nr waiaiate road rumW AIM ATE. Nov. 111. I lio I'iinaru to Wai nale road race re. •lilted MS foll.iws : Stoddard. I hr. L’ginio p lletlrn, llir. 2lmin o llrasscll, ]ln-. 21 min ;i !’■ O’Shea secured fastest, time, will I hr. Umin, 25see.

A TOW IN A fcTORM. Dt XKDIX, November If). The tug Dunedin had a desperate struggle in a. fierce southerly last night. She tried to tow in the schooner Bianca from Dekigoa Bay. but the hawser parted twice and fouled one of the tug’s propellers. The Dunedin only ornivied into port at 7.30 this morning Tho schooner was blown out to sen. November 20. The Bianca, reached port to-day.

SOUTHLAND POWER SCHEME. INVERCARGILL, November 22. At the annual meeting of the Southland Power Board. Mr W. Hinchey was elected Chairman, his salary being fixed at CHOO por annum. Mr Herbert P. Thomas, of East St. Kilda, Me|hoiirne, was appointed Chief Engineer at a salary of CI2OO per annum. Mr Thomas is a graduate of Melbourne University, and of Mac Gill University Montreal. He has had 14 years’ engineering experience in Canada and the United States, where lie was engaged in a number of large electrical installations. Ho is at present Chief Engineer to Thomas Coates and Co. .Melbourne.