TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION

GREASER MISSING. INVERCARGILL, April 3. » When the Wingatui arrived at Bluff g yesterday, a greaser, named Joseph - Warren, was found to be missing. He g was last seen at 9.30 o’clock the pret' vious night. He has relatives at Pukeraki. BURGLARIES. AUCKLAND, April 3. Two burglaries were committed during the week-end. Hazard’s warehouse - in Customs Street was entered, but the ! thieves did not obtain anything except i a few electric lamps and torches, binocit- - lars‘end a rifle and a few cartridges. The mutual stores at Devonport were also entered, and articles valued at .03(1 arc missing. An attempt to force the safe fajlcd.

i DECISION REVERSED. DUNEDIN, April 4. At a meeting of the University Council on March 21, applications for the position of Professor of Bacteriology and Public Health were considered, and Doctor Peter MeCullum was appointed oil the easting vote of the chairman. Notice to rescind the motin, however, was at once given, and a special meeting of the Council was held today to deal with this motion.

After considerable discussion, it was decided by a majority of one vote to rescind the motion, and to offer the position to Doctor 0. K. Kerens, who has been carrying out the duties of the position since Doctor Ohamptaloup’s retirement.

1 PRISONERS SENTENCED. WELLINGTON, April 3. At flic Supreme Court Mr Justice Husking sentenced John Nickolich, aged 18, on charges of false pretences and forgery and uttering, the total sum involved being over L'fsoo, to one year’s imprisonment on cadi of the three forgery charges, and two and a half months on each of the fifteen charges of false pretences. The former are to lie concurrent and the latter cumulative. Four youths—. John Alexander Gcmmell (nineteen), Leonard Terrill (twenty), Chris Aloffntt (seventeen), and Archibald McKay (seventeen) were charged with breaking and entering and theft from dwellings, and liouse- , breaking at Hnwera, Stratford, and Wanganui. Geniniell and Terrill, who were the ringleaders, were sentenced to reformative detention for three years, while the other two were placed on probation for two and a-hn!l years.

COURT OK APPEAL. WEI.LI.NOTON. April 3. The Court of Appeal commenced this afternoon the hearing of argument in the case ol tlie Auckland (las Coy.. Ltd. versus the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Auckland. The case was removed for argument into the Court of Appeal. The facts of the caswere that the Auckland Gas Co., Ltd., acting in pursuance of the provisions of the Auckland Gas Company Act, 1871, laid down a large number of mains and piper, in the s*reefs of Auckland city. During the last eighteen years the Auckland City Council has adopted a policy of paving the carriage-wavs ol its main streets with concrete, histone of water-hound macadam, thus rendering access to the mains and pipes more difficult if they had not been remov'd. The Cas Company, however, rmove 1 its gas mains and placed them under the footpath before the concrete was put down, in order to obviate the expens.• which would .have been incurred every time it might be necessary to attend to the mains. The questions for the consideration of the Court wore:—(1) whether the Cas Co. was entitled to compensation in respect of the laying of a concrete pavement in respect of Beach road and Symonds street; (2V whether, if the Gas Coy. had not removed its mains, it would have been entitled to compensation.

Sir John Eindhiv, for the plaintiff, said that by the Auckland Gas Company Act of 1871 the company was given the right to lay its mains in the streets. |f this right was in any way invaded as by increasing difficulty of access to the mains, the Gas Company was entitled to compensation. The Auckland ( iiy Council, hv placing six inches of conmete over its roads, had certainly made access to the pipes more difficult. Argument was not concluded when the Court adjourned.

RECHABITES MEET. WELLINGTON, April 5

The first session of the Jubilee Council meeting of the Independent Order ol Rechabites, opened Repiesentatives from 47 tents were present. The membership for New Zealand cistriet is now 3,333, an increase ol 384 since last. Council meeting. r l he Maym will tender the overseas delegates a civic reception to-day*.

CUSTOMS RETURNS. WELLINGTON. April 5

The Customs Revenue for the year was £5,085,020. which exceeds the estimate ’by £195,020. This is the second largest rotiim on record, being only exceeded by the previous year s £8,401,119. The heaviest collection was in September, when in anticipation of new duties 8735,058 was obtained.

Tito I '-er duty » , <-v the year was £458.895. which fell below tho, estimate by 8-11,105.

DEATH OF rev. A. cow. WELLINGTON, April 5. The death occurred in Wa.itnra y cs “ terday of Rev. Alexander Cow, aged 51. He was a well-known Presbyterian Minister, whose last pastorate was Waikaka Valley. Gore. Deceased never properly recovered from the effects of his strenuous work during the influenza epidemic.