TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1923, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION; A FT RE. MASTERTON. Eel. 28. A hoarding house at Castle Point, a seaside resort. about 7.0 miles from Musterton, containing 17 rooms was burnt down early this morning. METHODIST SUPPORT. DUNEDIN. Debruary 28. The Methodist Conference carried a resolution urging on its people the duty of strengthening public opinion in support of the League of Nations and urging on individual members the duty of definitely associating themselves with some blanch of the League's Union. It was agreed that the Board of Examiners consider the establishment of a course of study of international problems and that Sunday before the Armistice be tile anniversary observed as Peace Sunday.

GAMBLING charge. AUCKLAND, February 28. A case of unusual interest at the Police Court to-day was that of Arthur Cleave and Co.. Ltd., publishers of the Sporting and Dramatic Review." who were charged that on September 20, 1922. being the occupi,"- of coi tain premises, they did use the said premises for the purpo-e of receiving money for the consideration of an express promise to pay. or give, thereafter money on the contingency of a horse race. The ] i'v-itiu ion followed the publication in the '‘lievieu” of a Racing Shill Competition," in which a prize ot £.70 wa- offered to the reader who could select the fust three horses in the order they finished in a certain race.

Counsel for the Crown said that if the scheme was an inducement for the' purchase of the paper if was illegal. The delcnee was that the circulation had increased as the resiiii of an improvement iu the paper, no change taking place during Hie competition. The ea-'e was adjourned TA LUANG A SEAT. A l fT\l,\ ND. February 28. Mr \Y. |). Minin', "ho contested I lie Manakau seat at the gcneial elections has announced himself as a candidate for file Tauranga scat in the Reform interests.

LIBERAL CANDIDATE. TAURANGA March I. Mr Robert King of To Puke is freely mentioned as a possible candidate for Tauranga. bye-election in the l.ihetal interests King tabes a prominent part in local government, and contested the seat on a former occasion against Sir IV. Ilerries. If, however. Sir Joseph Ward cnu-cutcd to stand, King no doubt won!' 1 • sinner! him R.S.A. MOTION WEI.I.iXOTOX. February ”, tin the million of Col. T. W. McDonald, seconded by Mr R. 11. Bell, the Dominion executive of the New Zealand R.K.A.. unanimously resolved: “That tliis meeting views with grave concern the utterance ol the Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, in which he is reported to have suggested in effect, that no part of the Empire should be at war unless that part: is itself affected hv invasion As the New Zealand R.S.A. believes that the wellbeing of each constituent part of Hie Empire is bound up in tho future pms-

parity of the whole, it is convinced that such a policy as that alleged by any communicated by the Canadian Premier would, it adopted, result in the disintegration of the Empire, and so make for n collapse of civilisation aitf know it."

PAT’AROA’S draft. FATAL ACCIDENT. WELLINGTON. February 28. A draft of 1.-13 immigrants arrived by the Paparoa this morning from Home. The Papin-on spiled from Southampton on January 11. and ex: enemvil lacournble weather on the voyage out. After (tilling at Pitcairn Island, where the ship anchored in the roadstead, an! exchanged mails with the islanders, an unfortunate accident occurred, resulting in the death of one of the ship's company a single man named D. Ley -10 years of age and who icsided at London. At 1.20 p.m. on Ec'u'uaty 9 Daccy who was working on one of the lifeboats missed his footing and fell on to tlie deck and then into the sea. Three lifebuoys were iinmediatelv thrown overboard and although the ship was hove to til! 8. '5 p.m. and circled round the spot w here Dairy

was seen to disappear no trn:e was seen of Lite man. It i- prcsun'oil thnl owing to the fall on the dec!: Daccy was rendered iincousi ions. •ud that he sank immediately when he fell into thi’ water.

CHINESE AND OPIUM. WELLINGTON. Eel. U. In till Chinese opium cases ail the accused were convielcil. The .Magistrate' said he would fine loti Jock CD i: default (wo months’ gaol. Wong Chung, Sue Hoy. M) Fang and John Men ivor each tim'd £2(l in default one mouth.

Mr Page, the Alagistrate. added that if was not necessary for the detectives to go into the box to denv the charge« made by Lou Jock that when ho offeree file detectives £ls they said: “That inot much." and wanted £ofl. The .Magistrate asked: “If the Chinese did not understand English well, bow could he know what was said.' As to the allegations marie, he did not believe a word of it.