TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18946, 21 August 1923, Page 7

TELEGRAMS.

(Peb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 20. A wireless warning has been broadcasted from Sydney that a spar has been seen attached to a submerged object in latitude 38.621, south, longitude 147.3. With regard to the mishap to the Gisborne farmers’ steamer Admiral Codrington, bound from Wellington to London, which was reported to have put into Ins Palmas with damage to her machinery, the latest information goes to show that the accident to the vessel was exaggerated, and that the damage reported merely slightly affected the low-pressure piston, and did not interfere with the roirigerating machinery in any way. She put into Las Palmas in the ordinary course to obtain coal, not on account of the accident, and arrived in London last Wednesday with her cargo in good condition. At a meeting of the Automobile Union a letter was received suggesting that the union should communicate with the Government asking that the passage bo secured this session of the Motor Vehicles Bill with the limitations agreed to at tho Wellington conference. The chairman said there was a possibility of tno Bill _ being shelved. It was decided to circularise all members of Parliament.

In tne Polio© Court to-day John Neiil was committed for trial on a charge of making false statements to an officer doing duty in relation to tho War Pensions' Act, in an important particular, to wit, that ho was unemployed when ho made the statement. As a consequence he received payment of a supplementary pension. Accused was discharged from the Pukeroa Sanatorium in 1920, and received a pen sion. By making false statements ho received additional monies, when at tho time ho was working for the Labour Department at a salary of £235 per annum. Evidence was given to this effect by various officers of the Labour Department. PALMERSTON NORTH, August 20.

A reminder of an pil'air now about three months old, when d youth aged 18 and girl two years his senior, absented themselves from their respective homes for three days and nights, living a primeval existence in the bush near the Manawatu River, subsequently returning home voluntarily, was given to-day when a case was heard by the magistrate, Mr J. L. Stout, to-day. Tho young man previously concerned —Thomas Sniythe—was clxargea that on July 5 he did assault Bertie Holdsworth by throwing an open pocket knife at him and striking him between the shoulders. The evidence adduced showed that complainant was in a. room with a girl and two other young people when defendant threw tho knife through an open window. As far as was known there was no unfriendliness between tho parties. Tho charge was dismissed as trivial.