TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1923, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

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ACCIDENT AT SEA. WELLINGTON, Jan. 25. During the voyage ot the Shaw- Savill liner Ara-wn. which arrived at Wellington yesterday from Lyndon, one of vessels’ ijuartermasters, William Ellis 23. was accidentally knocked o. orb: ai d in mid-ocean during boat di ill. He was rescued after being, nearly half an hour in tne water. The accident occurred about 4.30 in the afternoon of December -Mil., the day before the vessel arrived at Colon. The weather was line, the warm sun shining brightly. hi t the sea was beginning to rise. THE SEAMEN. WELLINGTON, Jnuary 24. “The shipping trouble is over,” stated the Minister of Marine this evening. '‘lnstructions will be given to-day to the Secretary of Marine, Wellington. to bring into operation. the suspended Section 57 of (lie Shipping and Seamen's Act, which was held up in order that the shi] ov. tiers could keep their vessels in commission by employing unqualified men. The suspension of the Section has now been cancelled, and therefore the vessels on X .'/.. articles, on arriving at their home ports, must comply with the provisions of the Act relating 10 manning by qualified men only.” ELECTION ECHOES. CHIMSTCJIUHCH, January 24. At the Magistrate's Court, charges involving breaches of the .Legislature, Act. were preferred against l.ydia ( lieetliam (two charges); l.ydia I’oLiid (two), Frederick Vincent Rutherford (four), and Deter Callaghan (four). The two first-named were charged

with making false statements in enrolment forms and signing the names of other people on claims for eiinolment Rutherford signed his as a witness to signatures, wlii'cli lie had not seen written, at Callaghan’s request.

The women were fined 10s each on one charge and ordered to pay costs on the other. Callaghan was fined 40s and expenses on each charge, and Rutherford 20s on each charge. CRUELTY TO TROTTER. CHRISTCHURCH, January 24. At the Magistrate’s Court, 'William Bryce, driver of Bing Boy in the Prehbleton Handicap at the Canterbury Park Trotting C'luh’s meeting on January 2nd. was charged, on the information of the Inspector of the S.P.C.A., with having cruelly beaten the animal during the race. The case for the prosecution was that the defendant with no chance of winning, had given his lwirse a severe flogging with a whip which had a steel core. The horse was inspected after the race, and ten distinct weals from twelve to sixteen inches long were found on its sides. Tin- stewards had held mi enquiry, and cautioned Bryce for excessive use of the whip. The defendant said he had given the lior.-o five or six cuts at the start, as ho would not face the barrier, and two clouts coming up the straight. He had hit the shaft at the finish and not the lie: so.

Two veterinarians said I heir inspection did not disclose that the horse had been badly treated. The information was dismissed. His Worship ni'entioning that the liorsc had been whipped, but nut more severely than the occasion demanded.