TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1923, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER I’IiUUS ASSOCIATION] A LAD DROWNED. NELSON. Feb 19.

Reginald Winter, aged IS, .sun o ■I. ('. Winter of Takaka. was drownei while bathing iu Takaka river .vestci day. The body wa- recovered. A ROUGH TRIP. AUCKLAND. Eeb 19. The sugar company's steamer Rom arrived from Fiji on Sunday. S!i- en countered a eyelnpe on Feb 13th. am was hove to for two days. The deck were practically under water all til lime. The .sea hurst in the cabins am i! raw's quarters lb">'!ing them "id Ihi only damage u> tin- vessel was tin breaking id' sonic lean! pipes on tin deck and other fittings. It is mn known if U"> wafer gnl into the hold: and this will no 1 hi known until tin cm go is dis-hn rged. JEWELLERY STOLEN. IX V ER( 'A I! 0! I.b. Eeb 19. A daring burglary wa - i(immitted ii Dee Street at midnight on Saturday when a plate glass window in Broun’! jewdlgry establishment was -masbei and a tray of brooches valued at L’o> stolen. Other goods were untouched ;!n‘ burglar- decamping hurriedly.

. A WEDDING Cl FT. WELLINGTON. .Eeb 19. Tin- wedding gfii't from New Zftiland Indio, ti! I'rinc! ss Alary, is non on view ;■ Ibn c-ianli-lun"ul of I.ittlciohn and Sou-, and i- !-, ing greatly admired. The gift was de-igned by I’. X. Denton, managing (lire ior of tlie linn, and run--i-i- of an ink-tain! of a very novel I'buraetcr. carri -d out in gn'i li-tone, gold ami nnriri wood. In its execution. bcauly ami nri-rtnality arc coml.ined with a skill and artistry far out of the ordinary, lli" gift thus torming a national suvanir from Now Zealand ir!i is unique. The giD bears Die m.cription “To 11.R.H. Urmcess Mai'.v with affection from the women of New /caland on tin occasion of her mar riage. J-’ch. 28th 1922.” The gift may -muii somewhat belated, fuit the work call'd for the utmost skill in oinkii:"' both from the nature of. the maicnal-:j-ihl. and the intricacy ol the (h-ign. but when completed it realizes to He full the designers' purpose ol producing a thing of beauty and therefore a j"' for over.