TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1923, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

[BY TEJVKORAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION,. INJURED SWIMMER. GISBORNE, Feb. 12 Ilarrv Mclntyre, married, and a postal employee received spinal injuries while surfing yesterday, losing consciousness in the water. Ho was artificially restored to consciousness, but the spinal injuries necessitated his removal to the hospital, where be lies in a critical condition. THE FIJI FIRE. AUCKLAND, Fob 12. At the Suva (ire. Gumming Street, or All Nations' street, as more generally known to visitors to Fiji, is a narrow thoroughfare in the business pari of the town, and the shopping centre for Fijians and others of the colored population. The .street is npprnxiiniicly about IGO yards long, blit i*s lined on both silk's with shops of all descriptions, kept mainly by Hindus and Chinese. These premises are olu ‘ and two-storied wooden structures. Those Oil the side swept by the lire were all owned bv W. 11. lorry. At the Imek of those are buildings lining the banks of the Nalniknlaii Creek, which Mows through that part ol the Low'll and separates tin, fire -wept men from the central business Idock, which contains some of the largest wholesale and retail stores in town. Almost the whole of the buildings destroyed were old. hut the municipal markets, where fruit, produce and tobacco arc olfcrcd for sale by growers, arc comparatively modern. In saving the markets very serious dislocation ol trade has boon averted. The Royal In-urance Coy. advises that- the” damage by lire at-Suva was lifty thousand pounds. Iho insurances are' thirty thousand. The Royal’s loss is comparatively small, the majority risks being held by a local company, in which the business men of Suva have slia res. FOOD POISONING. Cl 11! f.STCI I URC’ tl. Feb. 12 Three more eases of supposed food poisoning arc reported irom Ne" Brighton. Fortunately, however, there are no filial results. r l hose allotted were Mr G. E. Goodwill. Xew Brighten, head salesman for Clins. Clark and Co. auctioneers ; Miss R. O. Goodwin, his"daughter: mid Miss 1,. Denhy. of Fewer liiecarton, who is slaying with the Goodwins. All the patients mo now mil of danger, and convalescent. It is thought (lie poisoning was line to some slowed peaches (not tinned), which were eaten at ten on Thursday evening, for only those who partook of the poaches vein adeeted. Samples of the food eaten at the meal have I I,ecu taken by the Health Department for examination.

WHARF FATALITY. WAXCAXUf. Feb 12. A nemi,d man. named Charles How - ard. while working in a truck unloading p..,|es from the Ihunmta at Ca«t!celiTj" wharf thi- afternoon, fell into the river, mid was drowned, lie leaves a widow mill, live children, tlm youngesta low days old. Howard ami two other inen Wi re the last horse call drivers in Wanganui. They went out of litisinuess a -few weeks ago. and the deceased ill: ii took lip waterside work.