TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1923, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

in' xjkleuhai’h - nut mass association. CHILD'S BODY. WELLINGTON- •hnimiry 1. I here was no fresh development in connection with the finding of the body of an infant buried at .TohnsouvMle. A posse of police arc engaged digging in the property on which the body "as found. The occupier of the premises, Cooper, and his wife, arc at present held by the police on several chares. MYSTERIOUS feuds. MELBOURNE. -January I. It transpires that tile tends here on December 29th.. were the outcome of disputes over property. Ti-c police are baffled. The victims arc persistently refusing to supply evidence, apparently fearing reprisals. A stowaway convicted. WELLINGTON. January -I. \ seaman Mott Wickliff. who was on the Mnei-aki. and refused duty in Svdney, and there served imprisonment with others, was convicted and discharged for slowing away on the Manuka . YTr T. AY. Young undertaking to pay his fare. OAVXKR’S ATTTITUDE. AVELLINGTON. January Ith. Air Hammond. Acting Secretary of the Shipowners’ Federation, stated today that the position of the shipping dispute was still unchanged. His Federation did not desire to continue a newspaper controversy. Tie said the seamen’s secretary was well aware the facts were very different from what he wished the public to believe. He was fully cognisant of the terms on which a settlement was possible, and must realise a newspaper controversy could not assist in that direction. The shipowners were well satisfied with the present position. Plenty of labour was offering. They were getting the ships away all right and he considered (he next move lay with the union. ESCAPEE SENTENCED. AVELLINGTON, January 4. A young Afaori woman. Alaka Kalmokn was arrested yesterday, after escaping from Point Halswell Prison, by using implements which she had secured. She lias a long list of conviction;- and the Magistrate senten -cd her to three years’ reformative treatment, two years of which are to lie concurrent with her present sentence.