TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS

[by telegram—pee press association] TAUP.O SHAKES. ROTORUA, July IS. Yesterday at 3.-18 p.m. a shake began in Taupo district, which continued j for eight minutes, with varying inten- | sity. The shake was more severe at Taupo and YVnirakei, than Alokai and Orunui. At Taupo, a large mirror in an hotel was thrown down and a chimney was cracked. A fall of earth near Huka falls temporarily impeded the main road. The shock was not feJt at Rotorua. OBITUARY. DUNEDIN, July 17. i The death is announced of Gabriel Hodges, aged 72. Tie was a builder , and contractor, and had served on a. large number of public bodies. He was ! M avor of South Dunedin and St Hilda, j He was president of the Forbury Park Trotting Club from 101 I to tlie time of Ips death. The death occurred yesterday of Mr {Sidney Wolf, the well-known musical conductor and judge at competitions; 1 aged 63 years. ! .MR SASTRI’S .MISSION. \Y ELLINGTON, July Id Under the auspices of the Y..M.C.A. ' .Mr Srinivasa Sastri this afternoon 1 addressed a very large and remarkably 1 attentive audience in the City Hall. \Yith masterly oratory and clear-cut J logic lie spoke ol “India To-dav. 1 In ap elo(|uent peroration lie pleaded for | the co-hperation of the Dominions .in j letting Indians work out their destiny I within the Empire, work as fellow citij zens of a great organisation, which together, they could still tender more fitting as an instrument for human welfare. “For let me assure you, 1 ’ he com hided, “that the Indian population, as to the greater part of it, conies from a race not less civilised than your own. conies from a race that can look : hack upon traditions not less ancient certainly than yours, comes from a race I which in its turn has contributed to moral as well as physical worth, and I a race which hopes still within the j British Empire to give of its best to the story of human welfare. I.et us I then take our place at vour side. We shall not interfere with your economic life, we shall not interfere with your civilisation, which we know you cl.crisu as proudly as we cherish ours: hut let us take our place at your side as real brothers under God. as real citizen.-- of a great instrument fashioned by God and as real eo-ojX’rators in the furtlierI auce of human welfare and human good.”

HEAD BLOWN OFF. DUNEDIN. July 17

Denis Gavin, a resident of Kaitangata. aged -It) years, was found with his head Mown off with explosives.

A PECULIAR AFFAIR. WELLINGTON, July 17

A voting woman, Bertha Harrison. :M. «lm was in employment with an Island Bay resident, left her home yesterday for the purpose of visiting relations. also residing at Island Hay. She did not till n up at her destination. and (Ids morning she mis found in .in unconscious condition among some "oi.si bn-In - on Mount Victoria, about three miles away. She was taken to the hospital and did not regain consciousness until this evening. So far no statement lias been made by the woman, who is in a weak state, but it i- presumed that she is sutfering from loss of memory.

DEAD' INFANT. DUNEDIN. July 17

The remains of an apparently fully developed female child were found today in some trees off Park street. A superficial examination made by a medical man failed to disclose definitely whether the chTld had breathed, am! a post-mortem will l>e held.

DAI BY FACTORY SHARES. WEI LINGTON, July 17

The increased allotment ol dairy faetorv enmpany shares by alteration ol the articles of association formed tinbasis of a case before Tlu-ir Honours the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout). Mr Justice I Risking, Mr Justice Herdman, Mr Justice J-ialmqud, and Mr Justice Reed. The parties were Stuart Evan Macdonald, a dairy farmer, of Ilawera (appellant) and the Normanhv Co-op.'l-ative Daily Factory Company. Ltd. Mr F. C. Spr.utt (Ilawera) appealed for the appellant, and Mr P. O'Dea (Ilawera) for the respondent.

The alteration of the company's article., of association, in order to increase the capital Irani C-MOO to UI 1,6113. was made after the purchase ci 22,3 shares by .Macdonald, tlie alteration making him bold one share tor every ift lib of butter-fat supplied in stead of three shares for every 2501 b of butter-fat supplied. -Macdonald objected forthwith and made a claim in the Magistrate’s Court, ifawera, before Mr A. E. Mowlem, 5.A1... for tlie sum of L'6 15s 7d. which the company bad retained out i.t payments for bis but-te,--fat as payment in readjustment of shale ylluetuiuns. The Magistrate decided in favour of the defendant company, and the ease, by the consent ol the parties, was removed to the Full Court to decide the legal points involved.

Although cases somewhat similar in respect to dairy factories had come before the Court's, they were not embodied in the law reports, and counsel were somewhat at a loss for authorities fur their contentious.

After hearing argument, Their Honours reserved their decisions.