TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

, IBY TELEGitA vtt —-PEft PRESS aSSO'CIA’! lON | A BOY BUSHED. J , GISBORNE, Jan. 23’ , A lad of twelve years named Clare, j -j son of a Gisborne baker, went pig , hunting with a settler at Watawahi oil l Friday about one o’clock. The settler i located a pig and left the boy with the dog at a particular spot in the bush and told him to remain there. , On his return neither dog nor lad were to be found. Search parties were out ) but no sign lias been found, . The connery is rough and weather had.- . i— . . EXCURSION FARES.WELLINGTON, Jan. 23. j Competitors at the forthcoming band contest in Wellington and at the championship rifle meeting to he held i at Greytown will be granted excursion , railway fares and reduced steamer fares. | A CHEMIST FINED. 1 DUNEDIN, January 23. Henry Louis Gallien, a chemist was fined a* total of thirty pounds on three charges of a breach of the Opium Act. The Collector s aid defendant was charged with selling above the leval weekly quantity one ounce of tine- , ture of opium and on five occasions in the past 6 months this occurred. Many entries in his retailers opium book were regarded with suspicion, large quantities of tincture heirig written off as manufactured into medicine, Which lid failed to satisfactorily, account for. D living the last year or two, defendants consumption of tincture had been about i fourteen hundred and sixty ounces every G months, dr from tori, to twenty 1 times the quantity used individually by other retailers. The defence was that errors were made by inadvertence and that the defendant sold large quantities of crittle drenches. The collector states defendant had keen vainly invied to produce any evidence in to cattle drenches. The Magistrate's fine was the maximum.