TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION]

JUDGMENT RESERVED. WELLINGTON, April 8. The Court of Appeal reserved judgment in the case of Morel and others versus the Northern Steamship Company.

SPIRITUALIST CHARGED

SERIES'OF SIX COUNTS

WELLINGTON, April 8,

Jonathan Page, a well-known spiritualist, was charged, on six counts, of undertaking to tell fortunes, and three of using “certain subtle means, to wit simulated spiritualism,” to deceive and impose upon persons. Mr Sievwright, for the defence, applied that the case be taken as an indictable offence, and be sent forward to the Supreme Court for trial by jury. His client, as head of the Spiritualist Church in Wellington, looked on the case as an attack on him as pastor, and on the church he presided over

Magistrate Hunt said that as the evidence proceeded, lie might think the case worth while to send it to the Supreme Court. If so, time would be given to prepare the defence. After hearing the evidence of two police witnesses describing visits to gatherings presided over by Page and also to his house, where he told them certain things, and they each paid five shillings, the case was adjourned till Monday afternoon.

THE BONUS CUT. CHRISTCHURCH, April 0

The representatives of the Canterbury Trades Unions have appointed City Councillor H. T. Armstrong to present their objections to the proposed Bonus Cut before the Arbitration Court.

COLERIDGE ELECTRICITY

CHRISTCHURCH, April 9

The electric current from Lake Coleridge was turned on, for the first time, at Leeston, .at Springston and at Springston South on Saturday night. 1 lie ceremony was performed by Sir Heaton Rhodes.

Referring to hydro-electric development throughout New Zealand, Sir Heaton Rhodes said the Government had no intention of making any rash expenditure, but it realised that electricity must he developed, and it meant to develop the schemes as quickly as possible. Mr A. G. Hendrison, President of the Canterbury Progress League, said that in no part of the world so sparsely populated as Canterbury, was there a better or cheaper electricity supply. That was due, in a large measure, to lho successive Governments and to the piesent Minister of Public Works and lii.s colleagues.

FRUIT TRADE. WELLINGTON, April 9,

Cabled information received here points to the fact that Uruguay has removed the embargo recently placed on the introduction of New Zealand fruit trees in that republic. The reason of the embargo was the danger of the insect known as Sanjosi Scale. Both trees and fruit will be now allowed to enter Uruguay, provided they are accompanied with the necessary certificate of freedom from Saujosi Scale and that the district in which the trees were grown is free Com the pest. It is Imped in future to establish an apple trade with Uruguay.

A FATAL PAUL. MASTERTON, April 9

Mr Alexander Duncan, the principal liglitkeoper at C'astlepoint, to which he was recently transferred from I’uyneK ur, was killed on Saturday evening. After lighting up he got a ladder to attend to the telephone wires on the track, and, apparently, lie fell from the top, fracturing id's skull. He way found an hour, later.. He leaves a widow and a family of three.

1\ AND T. MEN. WELLINGTON, April 9. The Government’s action in objecting to the Postal Officers joining the Alliance of Labour does not appear to have caused any surprise among officials of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association, who supported the proposal to affiliate with the Alliance of Labour. The executive of the Alliance of Labour will be called together at an early date, and the whole position will then lie discussed. There does not seem ..to be any likelihood that the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association will agree to the Government’s injunction not to affiliate. The next steps, both by the association and by the Government will be awaited with a great amount of interest.

CANTERBURY TRADES COUNCIL CHRISTCHURCH, April 9. At a meeting of representatives of the various trade unions, which was convened by the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council, .the following resolution was carried: “Thnt the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council congratulates the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association on the result of their ballot to join the Alliance of Labour. This Council is pleased to note the headway of closer co-operation in New Zealand of both the mental and manual workers, with the object of taking some share in the management of the professions and the industries, u the j)resent management has signally failed to keep this Dominion prosperous despite the fact that it had increased its productivity one hundredfold during the past 25 year*. The hysterical utterances of the Press and th e Chombers of Commerce are unable to stop the onward march of the workers in their efforts to make the world safe fod democracy.