TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1923, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

,av Ti i.uunAi'ti -nut muss association, ADMINISTRATION’ OF SAMOA. WELLINGTON. Febrm«r.\ 27. \ iaivwell dinner "as given to Bri-gadier-General Richardson to night by Hie officers of Lite New /calami .Military Forces. AL'ini General Sir h. V, . C!i ay tor presided over a large and dul ingiiished gathering. Apologies and apiu-eciatimis of General Richardson’s splendid work lor New Zealand and the Empire were received In m Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The chaiimaii in p'oposiu"' p.. e toast of ‘'Our Guest.” wished General Richardson every success and happiness in hi" new s:heme a Administrator of Samoa. and referred :u the highest terms to his work Ldon\ dm ng and since the war. The TT"U. Coates stated Hint the CoyeimmeH' unanimously chose General Richards.-u for the post, and had the fullest eonlidence m him. General Richardson, in i esponding. said hi- aim womd he to hold the balance tree I,'tween tlm races according to the best traditions, and to make the Samoans love New /enliind and the Empire. V A I.FA BEE PROPERTA'. PALAIF.RSTDN N-- 'larch L \ properly in the Square win a I rootage of ohft and depth ... Ifiolt far £25.003 approximately £•’< • per foot. MARLON SHOAY. BARTON. T'V cm'm EC The Agricultural Show va- a g'f'jl success. The entries i.ncrms"d by 250 11 wI Die atteiidaiicc doubled. Ihe cham-

pionship results were: Best pat ml oca i>. Mrs Hugh Gillies’s Captain Glossop : breeding mare E. Guddop: light, h.uness horse. F. Hoult: draught. S. Marr Jersey hull. ,T. Nicholson : I! 'l-tem bull R. E. Rvdcr: Jersey cow. A. A. Milson: grade Jersey cow: C. L Masters. Orossbreds-- Dairy cow. €. Green: Leicester ram. Sir J. (•• Mil-on. SbmpMiire Sir J. G. Wilson: Southdown ram ami ewe. C\ K. Vile: Berkshire SOW .Macfarhunl and Son. SHORTAGE OF J EDGES. WELLINGTON. March 1 The Law Society passed motions rooting the attention of the Government'to the fact that ail increase in the number of Supreme Court Jm'g is urgently needed, and to the fact that Hie salaries of Judges and Magistrates should he placed on an adequate tooling as soon a- possible. H M S I.A BERNEAL CHRTSTCH CECIL March 2 ff M.S. Laburnum left Lyttelton at 11 am for Oamnru. taking four sea scout - and a scoutmaster from Sinii--1 K„. ~o'ps. The l.ahiirnum after a short stav at Oamarn proceeds to Dunclm Bhitr Sounds. Groymouth. Ue-t, port,’ Wanganui, and Wellington. \ CABINET SUBSIDY. ‘CHRISTCHURCH. March 2 AVord has been received in Chnstelinreh that Cabinet has granted a subsidy of I*looo to the Bridge ot Remembrance War Memorial, which is under construction in Christchurch.

J- MATERNITY HOMES. CHRISTCHURCH, March 2 The first Christchurch prosecution under the Hospital Act forbidding tho use of a house as a private hospital for more than two patients, unless licensed, took place, this morning, when Emma Irving was charged with having four maternity cases at her home. She pleaded that the-doctor sent two emergency eases, and in one ease the baby was born half an hour after admission. The Magistrate, in imposing a fine of El and costs, said it was necessary that private maternity hospitals should he under the strictest supervision, and unless registered such supervision was impossible. SC HOLASTIC TROUBLE. CHRISTCHURCH, March 2 Owing to the non-arrival of provincial li-t of matriculation certificates from Wellington, several students have been refused enrolment at Canterbury College. However, the trouble is only temporary and no delay has occurred in regard to the lecture- of students concerned. Tlie Registrar ol the (ollege says that the arrival of the matriculation list is annoying but enrolment has been granted to all who produce certificates.