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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1922, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. cable association. PLAGUE PRECAUTIONS. (Received This Dav at 8.30 a.m.) BRISBANE, Jan 21. New plague regulations are prohibiting taking sweets and other goods to places of amusement. A CANDIDATE. MELBOURNE, Jan 21. King O’Malley is a candidate for the vacancy caused by Mr Tudor’s death. WRECK ENQUIRY. ißeceived Tin's Dav at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 21 At tlie inquiry into tlie wreck of tlie Karitane, the evidence of Captain Spain and Chief Officer Dowling, showed that the former, at 5.40 in the morning set a course to take the steamer between Deal Island anti Wright’s Rock. He then went below. The weather was intermittently foggy. At 7.25 when the fog was very dense, Dowling called the Captain and reported he had sighted Deal Island. Immediately the Captain reached the deck, the ship struck. The inquiry was adjourned.

NEW COMMISSIONER. SYDNEY, Jan. 21 H. R. McClure, the new Resident Commissioner of Gilbert and Ellice Islands, has arrived. He was formerly Commissioner of the District of K'mya in East Africa. FEDERAL ATTITUDE. MELBOURNE, January 20. Senator Earle, expalining the Federal Government’s attitude in refusing admission to German experts to erect machinery, said there were plenty of similar experts', obtainable in America. They should\be obtained there, instead of from the | nation which bad caused the world catastrophe in 1914. Govern- [ ment’s decision was final, i