TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(bv rtl.iaiUAJ'U — I’ER TRESS ASSOCIATIONEARTHQUAKE AT WANGANUI. WANGANUI, December 13. There was u sharp earthquake at eight to-night at Wanganui. RETRENCHMENT. DUNEDIN, December 13. The following resolution was unanimously carried at a largely attended meeting of the Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Officers Association, held to-night: “That this section views with grave apprehension the proposals of tho Government for a general reduction of salaries in the public service, purely as an expediency measure, to conserve revenue, and without any regard to the high cost of living, or to tho pledges given in connection -therewith; and this meeting considers that such a reduction is nothing [ess than tho imposition on a politically-handicapped section of the community of a special and most iniquitous form of direct taxation, the incidence of which is bound to fall most heavily on the moderatelypaid bread-winners.”

EXCHANGE RATES. ; WELLINGTON, December 13. ; There is an improvement in the rate ' of exchange between New York and ’ London. This was referred to by Aft R avoid Beauchamp the well-known fin- : aneial authority, in conversation with j a “Times” representative. It would bo j noted, ho remarked that during the past week there had been a distinct | improvement in the rate of exchange, j According to the latest advices, the | rate was 4 dollars and 21 rents to the 1 Cl. This meant a discount of praofcic- ! ally 13 per cut. upon the pound storj ling. For some 'time subsequent to I the signing of the Armistice, tho rate j of exchango was occasionally as large as 30 por coni discount. I A BOY INJURED. : AUCKLAND, Dec. II j Patrick Neill, aged seven, fell in his grandmother’s kitchen at Onehunga with a slut*' and pencil. An explosion I followed and was heard three doors j away. The Imy was severely injured on iho face and hands and three lingers were practically blown oil. A fragment of pencil entered one eye. the sight ol | which may he lost. The only explana- | lion is the possibility (list the hoy had attached a percussion cap to the end ol the slate pencil. \/,. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS. WEI,I-' Bee 13. The entries for the Now Zealand lawn Tennis Championships, which commence at Christchurch on December ii7thtotal 211), a slight- decrease on the numbers for 1920 which were nearly double those of 1919. The following are the details, with tho 1920 entries | in parenthesis: Men’s Singles. (52. ( 72): Ladies’ Sin-I oks “7 (31) ; Men’s Doubles, 32 (42) ; i i'e.dies’ Doubles.. 17 (19); Combined j Doubles :a f3!)‘: -Roys’ .Singles. 23 (21) ; Girls’ Singles 1C (23). | SUP ON MAIN TRUNK. j TAUMARUNUT, Dec. 14. I The expectation that Hie slip on the i Main Trunk would he cleared at mid- j night proved fiver-sanguine. Ihe men worked hard lmt the line is still block- | ed at nine o’clock this morning. The , slip itself was cleared hv ten o’clock | last night, but difficulty was experien-j ced in levering the engine back to the j rails. This was accomplished about ten ‘ this morning, and the engine was brought on to Taumarunui. The line is now "clear and the express, which left Auckland last night, will arrive here at eleven this morning. The passengers by the expresses which left Amtland and Wellington at mid-dav yesterday, changed trains at the slip at eight this morning, after a- long wait during the. night.