TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[BY TELEOIUVn peu muss association] DEFENCE DEI’ART.UENT. COLONEL M’DOXA LD'S CHARGES. WELLINGTON, October 18. Seen in reference to the reply hi the House by the -Minister of Defence in regard to the charge that guns and exhibition rifles, etc., had been given to a reputedly wealthy man, and that certain charges connected therewith were defrayed at the public expense, Colonel T. W. M’Donald, who made the charge in an address to the electors of Wellington East stated that the Minister’s answer was an unqualified admission of the truth of the cliargo made by him. An amount was never mentioned by him: neither did it affect the matter. It was, remarked Colonel M’Donnkl. purely a question of principle. The exhibition rifles were of great value and were, he believed incapable of being replaced in 1' southern hemisphere. He welcomed the opportunity of giving evidence before a committee of the House, both oil this matter and on the missing stores question. “My only desire.” added Colonel M’Dnnnhi, “is that an inquiry will he bold without delay and the result at once he made public.” PRICE OF BUTTER. AUCKLAND, October 18. The retail price of butter has boon reduced twopence and now is Is lOd. baptist conference. Dunedin, October is. At the Baptist Conference, the missionary budget was presented, and adopted. Tt showed that the estimated receipts totalled £5530, and the expenditure £5569. DROWNING FEARED. AUCKLNAD. Oct. 10. Andrew Carnegie, a gardener, a married man, aged 30 years, and his only child, Eileen, aged 12. V years, left Onohungn in a dinghy this morning to lish. I, a ter on Ihe dinghy was (loscovcred in Mniinkau Harbour upside down. A search has failed to discover the occupants for whose safety fears are ascertained.