TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1922, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

tm I'Kl.KullAl'li —I*KK I'ilhSh ASSOCIAIIONj FOUND DROWNED. TIMARU. July 21. The body of a well-dressed niidde-aged woman, named Mrs McLeod, presumably ofTima.ru, was discovered floating off Waim.it aitni bench this morning. The circumstances surrounding the death suggest suicide.

N.Z. WD tvs. WELLINGTON. July 21 '1 he Telegraph Department is consul'ring regulations for allowing wireless broadcastings but no scheme has actually been promulgated yet. Wireless I"ceivrrs will l ave to be n-c I. and already there are some MO in the country. Th.’ idea is to divide the Dominion into a number of districts, say eight, and to give a license in each to olio company, or. at most, two operating on alternative days, to transmit matter in the shape of news, music, weather reports, and so on. This will only bo allowed at night, from five to eleven. The officials do not believe it will he regarded for some time as much more than a toy. They will probably stipulate that only British machines shall he employed.

WINDOW BREAKING. WELLINGTON. July 22

There seems to have been an epidemic of window breaking yesterday. In addition to Parker’s exploit, James Smith, a seaman, entered the shop of Norton (tailor) and asked for money. Being refused lie assaulted Norton and Ids brother, anil when ejected smashed the plate glass window and ran away, hut was caught in Courtenay Place. Another large shop window was destiovd by a hammer rr stone. INCITING VIOLENCE. WELLINGTON, July 21. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Win. Parker one of the speakers at an "unemployed” meeting in Post Office Square on July sth was sentenced to a month's imprisonment oil'll charge of inciting violence by using the following or similar words: —“They tell ns wc must not break the law, blit; as long as the law remains as it is, I say break it I” Parker, who pleaded guilty, wns fined for a breach of the peace during the 1913 strike, and was ordered to find sureties or go to gaol for six months tor inciting to assault the police.'* He was sentenced to six months imprisonment bv the Supreme Court for wilful damage, in January 1917, he was sent to gaol for 12 months for seditious utterances and in April, 1919 to a similar term for publishing seditious matter.