TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1923, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

fuy TELIiUI! VPU —I*Kit PI’.MjS ASSOCIAHo.Sj ; CHILI) CHOKED. IILEXIiEIM, .lan. Hi The eliild of A. IT Reran.., of I’ictcn. seventeen months old, choked itscli with a pea pod, which lodged in the windpipe, and it died before a surgeon could remove tin.' obstruct ion. DISOWNED. IXVKRC CARGILL, Jan. IS) Douglas Kent, aged about thirteen, was drowned whilst bathing in the Wnihnpai River this afternoon. Kent endeavoured to climb into a boat with another boy, when it capsized. i iie other Imy got a- bore lor help, out when Kent was brought out it " :|s found thill iile was extinct.

THU FRENCH ( ECISCIS. CREW VISITS ROTOR HA. ROTOR l’A, dan. H>Admiral dill, with twenty-two olli,era. fioiii the l‘'ri‘ncli eruiser doles Michelet arrived from Auckland by special train at ST.‘Jo p.m. Air W- Hill, resident ollicer, ill a short speech, "eleinned them at the railway station, and Admiral Gilly briefly replied. A party of Maoris danced a India of welcome, and a large crowd gave the visitors a henrtv reception'. Admiral Hilly !,l 'd some*of the senior officers went to the (Irani! Hotel, others to Waiwera House and oiliers to the King George Hos- ■ pit;tl. wlu*iv l lu*v Jii’o necoinwo- ; A trip to Wanmuigu mu! a dlimri i woloJ.'iH' at liakarow a rex. a ili takij ! place to-juoitow*, and iac visitors v\.l{ ‘ iviiini in Ami land on Sunday night. KI.AX KX 111 BIT. i I’AI.M KRSTON NORTH- dan i’ll. i A meotiliit of the I laxoiilb'i'.- Asmii eiation decided to leave the an.inge- ; mem. for sending a eamuie'o' collcct- , jve exhibit to the Kmpir. Exhibition m th,. ! l;1 , of a .sub-commit tec.