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Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1925, Page 1

AN OPEN BOAT VENTURE. LONDON, Mil roll 4. A oua-stguardsman named Hitchins, with threw other Cornishmon, and a wireless operator, will leave the Thames during the first week in May to oircuiniiavigate tlie world in an open lifeboat, covering, thirty-eight thousand miles, in two and a half years. The lifeboat has already saved ninety-four lives. She is thirty-nine feet long, and is fitted with a fifteen horse-power engine. The crew will subsist entirely on biscuits and prepared' foods. After visiting America, they will go *Oll to New Zealand. Sydney. Melbourne, and Perth, and thence to South Africa. A USTR ALI AN SEAMEN. .MELBOURNE, March 5. The Commonwealth Shipping Board has appealed to the High Court for an injunction restraining the Federated Seamen's Union from committing breaches of the Arbitration Courts award. The case was adjourned till Friday, to enable representatives of the Seamen’s Union to appear. The move to secure the injunction was initiated by the Shipping Board prior to the termination of the recent shipping strike. STRIKERS GAOLED. SYDNEY, March 4. ' Forty-two employees at Mount Kembla colliery were sentenced to fourteen .day’s gaol by the Arbitraton Court, for participating n.a stinke at the mine. DTED WHILST DRESSING. DUNEDIN, March 5. At the inquest on Henry Patrick Seanwav, railway goods agent who died vesterdav whilst dressing) the verdict was heart failure, as the result of oldstanding valvular disease.