TELEGRAMS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 19 April 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

fp«B FBEBB ASSOCIATION.] H/OKLT'IKA SUFPOiRTS NATIONAL SERVICE . Hokitika, This Day. A representative meeting of iarmerd and: others adopted the Geraldine scheme for control of soldiers' farms. At the end of the meeting, a telegram sent to the Acting-Prime Minister by the Federation of Labor was referred to, and a resolution adopted uanimously, to notify t!he Premier that Westland district was behind the Government in the desire to" see the National Service Act fully carried out. The wisdom of the country as expressed through Parliament had passed the Act, and the desire was to have the Act fully enforced. On the carrying of the motion a. large audience sang the National Anthem. AEiRIEOT AND PROSEOUTIOXiS. Auckland!, Yesterday. The six Huntly miners and three West Coast miners arrested in connection with the alleged "go-slow" strike, were to-day remanded till next Monday. lit was stated that the ease would last fully two weeks. Subsequently a Huntly miner, John Wesley, senior, was arrested on a charge of seditious utterance. He was also remanded till Monday. There are fort-ytwo 'in for mat Sons against the nine miners, and fifty-Jive miners at Huntly hove hem summoned to appear later ns parties to a. seditious strike. The informations include excerpts from correspondence between officials and are alleged to denote encouragement of restriction on the output of the coal mines. The miners struck work at Pukemiro colliery eight miles from Huntly. One hundred and fifty men are out. WELLINGTON RACES. Trenfham, This [Day. The Wellington Racing Club's autumn meeting was opened to-day in dull and threatening weather. There if? a fair attendance of the public. Results: Jumpers' Flat.—Prince Delaware 1. Sir Solo 2, The Summit 3. Scratched : Multicipal and) Combustion. Prince. won eieilv. Time 2min 45sec. St. Lew Stakes:—TCilboy 1, Bjornberg 2, The Toff 3. There were only three starters. Kilboy won by five lengths and Bjornberg was three lengths ahead of the Toff. Time 3min. 9 2-ssec. Plunket Nursery Handicap. —Elocution 1, Bonnie Maid 2, Killeni 3. Won by a head. Time Imin. 0 2-ssec.