TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1923, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[by TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION']

, TELEPHONE CHARGES. ' WELLINGTON. February 7. i Concerning the recent increase on telephone charges, the Wellington | Chamber of Commerce passed the foli lowing resolution yesterday—“ That this Chamber having considered the proposed alteration in the annual charges, while regretting the necessity lor an increase in rates generally approves of the same and trusts that the time he not far distant when the Department. will lie aide to reduce present proposed charges.” 1 A SUBSTANTIAL GIFT. WELLINGTON. Feb. 7. ! Sir H. Beauchamp lias handed over to the Public Trustee, a freehold property in Fitzlierbert Terrace valued at five to six thousand, for the purposes of n Dominion Art Gallery, ft is | under lease till 1927. and is then to he | sold, and the proceeds invested till i £IO,OOO are realised. The interest on this is to he used for (he purchase of pictures. If by then the Dominion i Art Gallery is not erected the pictures are to he loaned lor exhibition to the local Art Society. The pictures are to In; known as the Harold Beauchamp collection. The Academy of Fine Arts received the announcement with enthusiasm and passed a resolution of appreciation. i OBITUARY. DUNEDIN. Fell. 7. 1 Obituary. Mrs Cohen, wife of lion Mark Cohen, uho himself is seriously ill in a private hospital. FANNING LSI.AND SAFE. WELLINGTON, K.'b. 7.

Owing to reports c;( the ofl'e i of earthquakes at llawaiau Mauds, it was leaped the Pacific cable station at Fanning Island might have suffered Enquiries wore made and ascertained that the seismograph them had recorded them, hut they Were not felt there and no damage was done by tidal wnves>

A SHOOTING AEFAIR. I TWO MEN INJURED. MASTERTON Feb Tiro men. .lames llcnrick, a balfcnsir ! drover, employed a- a shepherd at ; Blarkrock Station, aid I’nkera Ifao- ; tata.a native aged lu ■onl.v-oight years. ; were admitted from gunshot wounds. ■ D is alleged that Hat-tala resented Kcnrick'.s r< lotions with his wife, wlm has been living with Kenriek for three moil 11 is. and visited IMackrock. situated throe miles from Mnslerton, al 2 o’clock this morning. As K: m irk was leaving to drive stock to Mastertou lawns s hot three times by llaotatn. with a shotgun. Kenriek then got his own gun and in dofi-ncti wounded Huela'.n in the arm. The police and a doctor attended the men and brought them to the hospital whore- both are progr-ss-

I. ABO UR PARTY OFFICERS. WELLINGTON, Eeh. (i To-day, a full caucus of I lie Lnhom Party was held, and the niliivrs d tinParty were elected. Mr IT. E. Holland was re-elected to the Partv Leadership. Mr M. J. Savage was elected Deputy I .caller. Mr D. G. Sullivan and Mr E. .T. Howard were elected as the Whips ol the Party. REFORM PARTY EXPEf TATfONS. 1 WELLINGTON. Feb. fi It is now us!minted here that -Mr Masses- will get a House with a majority of three. Mr Statham seems to In- assured r.f the position of Speaker.

It is not yet settled "-bother TTon Afr Dalian will he proposed as Speaker in opposition to Mr Statham.

FIRE TRAGEDY PARTICULARS. NELSON. Feb. 7. In connection with the Ligar Bay fire tragedy, definite details show the lire occurred in daylight, not during the night. Thomas Organ lit a lire in the kitchen .stove and went out to milk shortly alter six in the morning. A howling gale was blowing at the time. The eowsln-d was seventy yards away. A quarter of an hour alter. Organ noticed the house in llames. He rushed home but was too late to save tlie victims, John Gillynrd, aged 70. and the six-year-old daughter of Organ. They slept in rooms downstairs, adjoining tlie kitchen. Mrs Organ and two younger children were also downstairs, hut further away. Mrs Organ got out with two infants and made for the side window where Gillynrd and the oldest girl slept. Gillynrd came to the window and exclaimed, "Oh my God,” and went Lack into the room. I’hm was the last seen of him alive. The bodies of Gillynrd and the girl were found together charred to cinders. I lie old man. evidently dazed, had endeavoured to rescue the girl and both succumbed to the flames, lee building was over forty years old and very dry. The gale had blown live embers into tlie room and the whole place wa ablaze in a fmv minutes. Gillynrd came originally from the Vies*, (met. Organ is a returned soldier. A DOCTOR’S SELECTION. AYEi.i INGTOV. Eeh. 7. Advice lorn lieeji received irom Eondon by the Tourist Depart inont that Dr J. D. C. Duncan. Government balneologist at Rotorua, has been elected a member of the International Society of hydrologists. At the present time Duncan is the only member in tlm Southern Hemisphere. OVAIARU ELECTION PETITION. 0 AMARU. Feh. 7. Oamarti election petition was called before Sir R. Stout this morning and adjourned by mutual consent to Wellington on 2Gth. March.