TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

rv 1.1...r.M'ii rim press association 1 SEAMAN'S |.U(’KY ESCAPE. CIIKISTCTI rilOll, Dee ”• When the Canopus was two hours out from Westport, on Saturday aftorilium a member of the crew full overheard. There was a high wind and fairlv heavy sea. The alarm was given und a Moat lowered, and the man picked up in an exhausted condition. 1m| teen minutes elapsed from the time of the alarm until the man was placed aboard again.

nelson college principal. NELSON, Docent I tier 5. Mr 11. L. Fowler, the principal of Nelson College, who is retiring, "’as farewclk'd by a great gathering of Old Boys of Nelson College. The Old Bovs have taken the keenest, personal interest in the college and their unanimous opinion is that, Air Fowler maintained and raisi'd the name of Nelson College in all that was best, in secondary School life. .Mr Fowler intends to live at Day’s Bay, Wellington.

FOUND DEAD. DUNEDIN, December 5. Early this morning a body was louml in the suburbs and later " :|S identified as that of Allred Walter Edwin Fowler, a married man aged L years a night watchman in the Government Service,

electrocuted. AUCKLAND,'TTcc. 5 .las. Mcßride, •ijxcd iiino, the son of Charles Mcßride of Takapuna, was electrocuted at a hoarding school at Teaioha, through louehhig an electric u iio on tin' schoolroom roof.

i 111 K Alt ANG I MINERS OUT. , WHANG Alt FI. Deo. 5 | Following tho decision ol a mass meeting yesiciday ol cal miners at 11 ikurangi, appioximatcly two hundred liavo ceased work. A few hands are I remaining to woi k the pumps. I mili.erton menu, working. j DUNEDIN. Dee. 5 | West port Gov’s Millet-ton mine rei sinned to-day as a result of a vote i vostonlav, a majority ol twenty ; favoring that course. A PECULIAR AFFAIR. | HAMILTON. Dec 4. I William Williams,‘a labourer, was j sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for somlinj-C fmir imiocont Ji'ttms through tho post to .lark and . his wile. Fetters were sent to 1 ortcr s wife alleging Porter was the lather of i children of a certain woman, but in-

i nicies proved no such woman was in 1 existence. A receipt was also enclosed nekowledgiug an alleged payment ol money for the maintenance of a child. ' Accused admit teil sending two letters. I Tho opinion ol experts was that all the j ),.(ters were in (Tq. same handwriting. Evidence was given, that the parties Mail a slight dispute eighteen months over wages, hut since were friendly.