TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

! UV TliLEUi’.AI’U —I’EK I’I!ESS ASSOCIATION

PRICE OF BUTTER. DUNEDIN, Jan 21. From Monday, the local dairy factories will increase the wholesale price of bulk butter from Is id to Is ljd per lb. sLy-guog CHARGES. WELLINGTON, Jam 21). The police made raids during tile holidays on certain places, with lire 'result that a number of charges of sly grog seliiiig wore before the Court to-day. G. L. Ashton was fined £2O and costs. Gertrude Ashton, his wife, who already lias been convjcted once, was filled M). W. Jolly, it. .Carpenter and A. Taylor, found on the premises, were oath fined £l.

RtIRLIC SERVICE SALARIES. WELLINGTON, Jan. 19 By Order-in-Couticil published in the Cldkcitb tiie scale of .salaries and in-cj-cniciits to salaries for officers of the clerical divisidii of the Public Service below class 6 is revised. In class 7an officer is to receive £290 per annum in tiie first , subdivision, £3lO in tJie second and £320 in the third. In class 8 he receives increments as follows: £BS, £IOO, £lls, £l4(j, £llsO, £215, £230, £250, and £270. Under no circumstances will an officer be advanced beyond the first, second, third, fourth, fifth or sixtli subdivisions of the latter class vintil lie lias giv.eii satisfactory proof to the Cdimnissibner of His efficiency.

BATHER DROWNED. DUNEDIN, Jan. 20 A taxi-car proprietor, named Ross Moore, residing at Kaikorai, was drowned at. Tomahawk to-day. ft appears that after taking some ladies to the beach lie went for a swim and disappeared. Two men from Anderson’s Bay Cemetery saw the body far out from the shore; and tried to bring it in by means of a rope, hut failed. It was afterwards washed ashore near some rocks, and examined by Dr Evaiis, wlio earrie to the conclusion that the cause of death was drowning. The body was afterwards removed to the morgue. TOBACCON:' T ROBBED. ASHBURTON, Jan. 20 The fourth burglary reported to the police since the New Year occurred at the shop of John Bond, tobacconist, last night. The place was ransacked and the stock left in disorder and several articles removed from the window in the front of the shop. Only a few coppers in the till were left undisturbed.

THE SALARY CUTS. WELLINGTON, Jan. 22 A definite day for the further consideration of the Public Expenditure Adjustment Bill is not yet announced, but the Bill will certainly be dealt with next week. The Prime Minister states he is considering representations that have been, and are still, being made to him, and it is probable that he will suggest to the House certain amendments to remove "the anomalies, that have boen discovered. He will also remove the misunderstanding which public discussion and criticism show to exist. DAWKINS CASE. WELLINGTON, Jan. 21 Charles Campbell Dawkins was charged at the Magistrate’s Court here with having on the 29th of November assaulted Dr MeEvedy, with intent to cause bodily harm. On the application of Chief Detective Kemp, consideration of the charge was adjourned. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. AUCKLAND, Jan. 22 A resident of Ellerslie, Louis Hansbury, was drowned in Tamaki River. Deceased was employed at the railway workshops. He was a married man with one child. A Dalmatian named Ivan Maras, single, aged 29 years, died in the hospital as the result of injuries received on the railway works at Waihore, North Auckland. He was engaged as a tunneller. A truck filled with stones passed over 'his leg, which had to be amputated. The body of a man was found floating in the harbour. It is believed to be that of Jas. Grant, aged 19, missing from the steamer City of Edinburgh, since Wednesday evening.