TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

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INEBRIATE'S LAPSE. AUCKLAND, May .8 At the Police Court, Wiiliam Charles Gunderson, aged 22, was .sentenced to a moiltli in gaol, for landing at Pakatoa Island, without lawful excuse. Accused was detained on Rotorua Island for inebriety, and vi-dlod Pakatoa Island, where women inebriates are detained, by means of a raft, alter hav-

ing made all appointment with nn inmate named Lena, by a letter, which was iiiterceotvd.

DISASTROUS HURRICANE. AUCKLAND, Mav 18,

According to news from Vila. New Hebrides, a hurricane which swept over the group three months ago, destroyed the .\felanesiaii station at Opa Island, north of Hebrides. Anxiety is felt for the safety of several school buildings in other islands, particulardy in the same region as Opa. BAND CONTEST. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 18. The executive committee has decided that the Band Contest will com me nee on Monday, February 2i!th, 1923.

NEW SERU.Mi TREATMENT. WELLINGTON, M«v 17

Last month the Minister of Health, the Hon. C. J. parr, observed in a summary of information which lie received from Australia that remarkable results had attended the use of a new plague serum in Sydney. There had been only one dentil out of thirteen patients in New Sooth Wales, which was much lower than the plague death rate in Queensland. Further information was sought. Tile Minister lias now received some particulars from the Director-General of Health at Sydney Mr Armstrong. The serum was the discovery of- Dr Burton Bradley, in the Bacteriological Institute of Australia and has been used extensively in Sydney with results which Dr Armstrong considers to he excellent. Of twentytwo patients treated eighteen recovered from plague with expedition, and the thlet* who died never had a chance. One came under the serum treatment five days after the beginning of his illness, one was moribund on admission to the hospital and one was 83 years of age. In every ordinary ease it would appear that the serum has been effective.

As the results appear so remarkable tile Health Department, on the instruc. tion of the Minister is making further investigations.

FARM ACCIDENT. WELLINGTON, .May 18. A single man named Thomas Smith. 7! years, residing at Maita. received injuries last night which resulted fatally. About (1.1,5 p.m lie went into the yard of a farmhouse where he was em-

ploye t and stumbled over a farm cultivator and scveiply injured bis throat. ft(* died before tin* hospital was reach-