LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1925, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The “Grey River Argus ”. to-day celebrates its diamond jubilee, the paper having been established on Nov. Mth in 18(15. The paper to-day issued an eight page supplement dealing with its early history and the progress of the town and district. The supplement contains photographs of Grcymouth and Hokitika and of a number of the earlier faces of well known journalists connected with the paper, and also of the present management and the member for Holler. The frontispiece contains a photo of the late Hon. Janies Kerr, tho founder of the paper. A number of appreciative congratulations are included, mainly from Labour Rartv sympathisers. We join in extending good wishes for the future of the paper.

Charles Henry Augustus Jones, the prisoner who escaped from Rapa run gaol on the afternoon of October 8, was recaptured late on Friday night in Oxford Terraco, Christchurch, by a party of detectives. He was armed with a revolver at the time. .Jones was seen coming from the slot telephone at the intersection of Madras Street and Oxford Terrace by Detective .1. Thompson, who was accompanied by Detective Knudsun and Acting-Detec-tives Mayne and Bcevroft. Jones recognised Detective Thompson and immediately made an ell'orl to get away, lie had sprinted about fifty yards when lie was tripped h.v Acting-Detective Mayne. Jones was well dressed and in good condition at the time of his capture. At the time of his escape Jones was serving a sentence of three years' reformative detention on charges of forgery. . When sent to prison on June 21. 1924. lie was aged 20. Jones went to the war when he was lourteeii and when sentenced in the Supreme Court the Judge commented upon his somewhat chequered career.

The Sydney ‘■.Morning Herald” quotes the following I'lolll the letter of a lady now returned from a visit to a married sister .settled in Queensland. I.ongreaeh ilisl rjd :—“During the tailway strike there was much talk that civil war was coining unless the GnvI’lOlitii’iit gave Ihe strikers all Dial they asked. The men who were engaged on the si at ion were always talking ol civil war. I hoy declared I leal it was coining soon. I was told that olli'iidors against the law in the interior of Queensland go unpunished nioie olleo tban nut. Juries are afraid to convict. anil the police can do nothing, even if they wished to. It a man is given the ‘sack’ the wool-shell is fired soon afterwards. No person engaged on a job may lie spoken to by the employer. If spoken to the worker will at 'once take his departure, lie sutlers no loss by so doing, because lie takes his wage-card with him. It has to he signed hv the employer eiei> week, and the amount of the wages is stated. When a worker leaves lus employment the Queensland Government pay him the wages stated on his wageseard, and continues to pay him wages for :i certain peri ul while lie is looking for new employment.”