TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[by IBLEORAPH-r-rER PRESS ASSOCIATION]

LIBERAL CANDIDATE, i l i H ( '\ fiIWERA, Juno 1. A meeting of Liberal and Labour supporters selected Mr J. R. Corrigan, a well-known Unworn farmer, to contest ,I’u tea. seat.,at, the. gje.ijcral election.

SALE OF HOTEL. DUNEDIN, May 30

His Honour. Mi: Justice Sim delivered judgment to-day in the action, Andrew Pringle, hotelkeeper of Christchurch, and well-known in trotting circles, against MWdoeh McKay in which a claim was made for £SOO deposit on the .sale of an hotel at AY in ton. Ills Honour said that plaintiff had failed:to establish that the money was held by Mr Samson (hotel broker) on behall of the defendant, and judgment must he for the_defendant. The plaintiff, he said, was encouraged by a letter dated November 22nd to act on the view that the deposit was held by Air Samson as agent for the'defendant/. , That: letter was a blunder’dr worse,' and was.- lie thought a sufficient ground for refusing to allow the defendant nriv costs. Judgment was accordingly entered for the defendant without costs.

I’RIC'K OF CKMKNT. A FCKT/ANF) May. 31. Tlio price of cement' Iras been rednet od by tile AN ilsen’s tX./.) Portland Cement Company. Ltd., tn tlio extent of 13s fid ;i ton the' charge now being £0 15s per ton, ex store. Auckland, with discounts as formerly for the small reta.il trade in lots of under one ton. The price to other than honafide builders has been fixed at 7s fid a hag, ex store, less 2} per cent, discount. The company states that the reduction is not wholly due to the bonus paid to employees being reduced by the Arbitration Court. The decrease represents very much more than a drop of 5s in wages, and the oliiert of the company in announcing an alteration in pHirex is to assist in bringing values back to normal, as fair as it is reasonably possible to do so, and to stimulate building and concrete construction j j work, ,

COMAHTTED FOR TRIAL. AfASTERTON*. May 31

Til the Magistrate's Court. James Cecil Oliver Thomson, of Tatieni. mail contractor, and Reginald AA , Otinn of ATsstcrton. taxi-driver were committed for trial at the AA’elljngtoii Supreme Court on charges that eneh received 28 sovereigns and Cl2 in silver, knowing the money to lie part of the contents oT a safe that was tolen from Paekakariki railway refreshment rooms by Percy Martin Carmichael and Erie Alnlcolm Riel on January Bth.

* CAUGHT ON THE ROOF. AY ELLINGTON, May 31

Alexander Cemmell (21). who was discovered on tlio roof of the Hon Georrrp Fowlds’ premises on Saturday night, appeared in ilie Roliee Court today to answer 2“ charges of breaking and entering and theft. According to tlie police evidence, Gemmell, when arrested. said: "The game is -up.” He also said that lie was responsible for many other burglaries in the rity, and that lie intended to elear the matter

up. lie was committed to the Supreme Court.

J!ORRERY Till: MOTIVE. AYAN'GAXrf, June 1

A post mortem, held today, shows Glut C'iuuv Vat received four bullets in 1 lie head. One shot behind the ear penetrated the brain. The police believe the mmderer followed his viet ill and finished him off. although it is still a mystery bow the body reached tlie place where it was found. It lias now been definitely astertaiued that the motive of the clime was robbery, as the deceased's empty purse was found on the road.

NEW HATCH OF J.P.’S. WELLINGTON, June 1

Tin* following new .Justices ot the Peai'e have been gazetted: Robert Alexander Stewart, licotloii, lnaiigaluia .1 unetion ; Sampson Roberts, Ariki Mureiiismi ; R.ieliard Thomas l’ope, lvaiUoura; Richard Frederick l’erham. Three Alile, AYcstlnnd ; George Nowlamls,’ Ri nnnerton; Austin Edmund Lines, AY kite Cliffs, Inangaliua; Christopher. Michael Harris, llulmka, Hokitika: Malcolm Henry Houston, Hokitika; Murdoch Hugh McKenzie Frazer Murchison; William Fisher, Nelson Creek, Grey; William Frederick Falla, Milierton, Rullcr; Alexander Doig. Rlaekwater, Inangaliua.

GOVERNMENT PRINTER RETIRES WELLINGTON. June 1.

Mr Marcus Marks retired yesterday from the position of Government Printer. lie was met by the Printing Office statf at a social function and presented with an illuminated address. Tlie Minister in charge of the Printing Office (Hon. .1. Anderson) in presenting the address, read a message front the Governor-General, expressing appreciation of Air Marks’ services in connection with various public movements. Tlie Minister eulogised the retiring officer's long, efficient service to the Department. The new Printer, Mr W. A. Skinner, takes control to-day.