TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

— 1 - [by TELEORAI’F —I’EU PRESS ASSOCIATION] THEFT OF .JEWELS. j ! WELLINGTON, November 23. i At the police court, Charles King, j a fireman, was committed for trial on j eight charges of breaking and entering and theft from dwelling houses,, of jewellery valued at £2OO and articles of ail additional £.30 value were

stolen. I>. AND T. INQUIRY. WELLINGTON, November 22. ' Afr Mnzcngni'b, legal adviser to the

Post nod Telegraph Officers’ lAssoci- j ation, writes to the Press challenging j the accuracy of the order of reference . to the Commission set up to inquire | into charges against officers of the Depaitment, “alleged to have been made by hill!.” He says: “(1) I have not made charges against administrative and other principal officers of the Department. I have merely reported on complaints, made to me by witnesses and added ..my own observations upon

those complaints and upon evidonee uiveii in two matters in which I was acting as counsel. (2) Neither in niv letter to the association nor elsewhere did I state (as the preamble recites) that ‘facts favourable to ail accused officer have been deliberately and wilfully suppressed.’ Neither the association nor myself was consulted about the order of reference. In that relcreuce ‘comments’ in my letter bare been enlarged into ‘charges ol misconduct.’ while its .scope has been so myrowed as not to permit of full investigation." INFORMATION DISMISSED. AUCKLAND. November 22. Decision was given by Mr G. W ilson S.M.. in a ease in which the inspector of awards sought £lO ■penalty against Thomas Frederick Anderson. In "in'll socretuiy of the Seamen’s Union, alleging that the defendant aided or incited a strike of stokehold hands on the Arnln i i'll on September 2(1. The magistrate said that though defendants’ sympathy with the men lindoiibtedlw encouraged them in tlv> stand they had taken bis desire was to overcome the difficulty as he had been requested to do bv the master; iw fact, lie did oveieume the difficulty. The iiilonnatiou was dismissed. , CANVASSER FINED. J j FEU-DING. November 21. Alex Hayward, a prohibition eanva--ser was fined £5 for breach of the Leg- ; islature Act covering an enrolment. ' He persuaded an elector to sign liis wifw’s name to an enrolment form and t lion witnessed the signature. The ole-tor was filled £l. A MOTHER’S ACTION. THYMES. November 21. i Early this morning a doctor was summoned to the bouse of J. Bennett and found tile son nine years old lying on a bed with severe wounds to the seal)) and skull fractured. The mother, who has been in failing state of health for sonic years, states someone was going to take the child to ill use him. so she determined to kill him and end his suffering. Tile child was removed to the hospital in a serious condition. The woman was taken to the hospital detention ward. i i GTSBORNE, Nov. 2U j XominatHms Eastern Maori—Apirn- j mi. Xgata ; Taranaki. To Mamiiirangi. j OBITUARY. i TIMARU, Nov 21. j ■Obituary.—Thomas Hawkey. is* ; Mayor of Timani, aged (>9 years. I