TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

|BY TELEOIIA ITT —PF.H CHESS ASSOCIATION]

IRONWORKS BLAST FURNACES. NELSON, April 24. The preliminary run of the various unias of Onakaka Ironworks was entirely satisfactory. The lighting of the blast furnaces takes place to-night. A MAN KILLED. TAUMARANUI, April 24. Neil Albretson, aged 51, was killed his morning by the early train from the north. Albretson was driving a cart laden with meat, and entering the town at a level crossing the engine missed the horse and struck the cart which was smashed to matchwood. Alhretson fell on the front footplate of the engine remaining there till the train pulled up two hundred yards nearer the station. Albretson’s skull was fractured and he died a few minutes after admission to the hospital. FARMERS’ CANDIDATE. THAMES. April 24. A conference of Farmers’ Union at Ngatea selected A. A. Ross, as candidate for the Thames seat. ANZAC DAY MESSAGE. WELLINGTON, April 24 Major General Sir Russell, who commanded the N.Z. Division in the great war lias issued the following Anzae day message—“ The seventeen thousand who fell in the war have handed on to us. the duty of carrying on the fight for ideals of justice and freedom for which lliev died.”