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Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1917, Page 2

For the week ending Jan 30th. Butter to the value of £4462 was exported from Hokitika. ,

'i'lio total post and telegraph revenue collected in Hokitika during last quarter was £1457 Bs.

r. B. M. Molineaux, Chief Inspector of the Bank of Now South Wales was a visitor to Hokitika yesterday.

The estates of 149 deceased persons were placed under the charge of the Public Trustee last month.

A Press Association message received last evening states that the fourth Miliary Ballot has been finished, and the results will probably be mode known on Monday.

The telegraph revenue for the district last quarter was £632. Of this amount £125 was derived from press •telegrams, and £159 from Bureau communications.

The annual training camp for 'the West Coast companies of the 13th (N.C. and W.) Regiment will be held at Waitahua from 2nd to 10th March. Major W. Jeffries will be in command of the camp.

During tho December quarter 850 money Orders valued at £4llO were issued at the nine offees in the Hokitika Postal District. For the same period 511 orders amounting to £2831 were paid .

The Customs and Excess duties collected at Hokitika last quarter totalled £738, and for tho corresponding quarter of 1915, £lO2l. The total duty collected for the year was £3820, and for 1915 £4829.

The imports for tho port of Hokitika during tho quarter ending December last wero valued at £2300 as against £2926 for tho corresponding quarter of 1915. For the year 1916 tho total value of tho imports was £6555, compared with £10631 in 1915.

At the nine Post Office Savings Banks in the Hokitika District last quarter 55 new accounts were opened and 63 closed. The deposits amounted to £9442, and the withdrawals to £7543 and excess of deposits over withdrawal and exoess of deposits over withdrawals of £1899.

Employers of Territorials requiring leave for their employees from the annual training camp, to be held at Waitahu (near Reefton), from March 2nd to 10th, are required to apply to the Group Officer at once, as all such applications must be forwarded to headquarters (Christchurch), whence the necessary authorities to absent will be issued.

Miss Graham, of Christchurch., /as boon appointed by the Canterbury Education Board to take charge of the domestic science classes of the Technical School at Miss 'Graham has had charge of the domestic science at the Technical and Women’s Hostel in Christchurch. Sho will take up her new duties at once, A private telegram received late yesterday afternoon stated that Cpl. William Ball, sou of Mr F. Ball of Greymouth, who left with the Main Body, has boen wounded in the left arm and thigh severely. He is now in Brookenhurst Hospital.

The sneak thief seems to be ever present with us. Not content with robbing gardens of their vegetables, they now appear to be viewing the approach of winter with some concern, and in more than one instance are appropriating firewood from backyard?. It is to be hoped that if the culprits are caught they will be made an example of. Giving a false alarm of fire proved anything but the joke it was intended to be by Harry Stanhope, who was charged with that offence before Mr L. G, Reid, S M. at Wellington on Friday. Mr P. J. O Regan, who appeared for the defendant, entered a plea of guiltv. Mr J. O’Shea, city solicitor, said that the estimated cost of turning out the fire brigade was £lO, due mainly to the wear and tear on the machines. Defendant was fined £5, with costs 9/, The alternative was fixed at fourteen days in gao'. A narrow escape from a horrib’o death was the experience of a boy who was playing on the beach in a locality known to old residents as Blanket Bay (says the Dunedin “Star”). Several youngsters were playing in the shal'qw water at low tide, when an octopus of large size pursued one of the boys, and, travelling with a velocity unexpected in so uncouth a creature, seized him by the leg. A girl—and a pluck/ girl she was—tried to pull the uncanny creature from its prey. But, from all accounts, she would not have succeeded but for tho. arrival of other children, when, recognising that the odds were against it, the repulsive devil fish abandoned it I attempt and escaped.

The Members of the Nursing Division of St John Ambulance Brigade are reminded of the practice this evening at 7.30 in tbe Ambulance Room. The remains of tho late Domenico Lanini were brought up from Waiho Gorge, arriving by the morniDg train, and were taken on to Goldsborough. The funeral takes place to Stafford cemetery to-morrow r .

Eafries foi the Singles Championship of the Hokitika Bowling Club will be received up to Saturday afternoon next. The iJiaws will be made in tbe eveiing and play commences on Monday evening, Mi F. T. Sandford, Chief Cbeik in the looai L-mf Office, wbo is nuder ordere to transfer to Wellington, leaves on Tuesday uexf.. Mr F. A. (Jadon, of Auckland, who succeeds him, is now on tbe w;>y down arid sbould arrive tomorrow.

The death of Mr Joseph Forsyth took place at - Westland Hospital this morning. Deceased had been au inmate tor about six years. He was a native of Ontario, Canada and 79 years of age and had been about fifty years in New Zealand. He leaves a family of seven, but none are in the Djininion.

• Advice received in Greymouth last night stated that Mr Raymond Harper, an old Grevmouth boy, who for some time was a memher of the mailroom staff of the local Post Office, died in Christ church Hospital yesterday morning. He was the sen of Mr Benjamin Harper, fo-. merly of tho Court in Greymouth, and now of Dunedin. Deceamd would have celebrated his 31st birthday next Thursday had he lived. He leaves a wife and family. The annual Installation of W. M. and Investiture of Officers of Lodge Kumara, No 65, N.Z.C. was conducted on Tuesday night by the R.W.B.G.M. Bro Richmond and hia officers. A number of visiting brethren from Greymouth were present. Bro A B Glen was installed as W.M.,and the officers invested were : 1.P.M., Bro J, Steel; S W, Bro J E Wade; J W, Bro R Burrell; S,D., Bro W Stewart; I G Wor. Bro H S'ufcbs; Tyler, Wor. Bro C E EvendflD. The Treasurer. Secretary and S.D. will be invested later on. After the ceremony the visitors were entertained in the School of Mine?.

An old miner named Richard Hole, who resided at Meehan's Flat, Marsden, died in the ambu’auce on Tuesday, while being conveyed to the Grey River Hospital. He was 84 years of age, and had been ailing for some time. He had reoeived medical attention recently, but objected to going into hospital. His condition, however, became so serious that lib removal was decided upon, but he died on the way to the hospital. Deceased, who WBS well known to the old residents, was a single man, and is believed to have relations in the Ashburton district. *

A Westport district young man has become a soldier of the King in a pecu. liar manner. A “ clause 35 " man who had received the usual official notice to attend the Medical Board, with humorous intention only erased his own name, inserted that of a friend and passed the document on, Before the joke could be explained the second man, accepting the notice in good faith came to Westpori, presented his paper, was plassed in Class A, attested, and has been posted to the next Reinforcements. He has no regrets except that his funny neighbour is not going to Trentham with him. What may happen to the joker certain official people in Wellington will decide.

A striking incident of a trench raid made by New Zealanders, “somewhere in France," is related iD a private letter received in Auckland. Amongst the prisoners takpn in that raid was a German who spoke English. This person showed a desire to cultivate familiarity with his captors, and put to them the question. “Is there anyone from

Taumarumui amongst you?" Afterwards it was discovered that the man who gave the name of Jorgansen, had been in New Zealand, and had work'd m a sawmill at Taumarunui. He expressed ihe wish to meet any of his former workmates who might be amongst tbe British troops. If any Taumarunui lads were about tho trenches, however, they showed no eagerness to renew acquaintance with their ox-colonist foeman. Writing from Sling Camp (Salisbury Plain) on November 22 to a friend in Wellington, an officer says;—“The Seventeenths arrived in camp the other

day, rather unexpectedly. They had a nasty reception, in the shape of a snowstorm, with o bitterly cold wind, bnosv commenced to fall, and by the time they arrived in the evening, was lying pretty thick all round. However, they marchad m cheerily, and were toon Used up ia their huts, where tires were burning. The training here is entirely different, and is based upon war experience in France. All methods of the latest trench warfare are taught and the latest in every form of attack and defence is impartei to the troop 3 before they are drafted over to France. That is to say, that when a soldier leaves here, he knows nearly as much as the man who has been in the trenches on the Western front.” Spec al window display of warehousemen’s stock of ladies' fanoy muslin and voile blouses 5/9 for 2/11 at McKay’s, The Leading Drapers— Advt, The most modern scientific preparation for washing clothes is “No Rubbing Laundry Help ” as it washes elothes clean without rubbing and we guarantee it not to injure the hands or fabrics,— John Parkhill. Special purchase of warehousemen’s stock of ladies’ white voile blouses, 17/6 now 7/9, at McKay’s, The Leading Drapers— Advt. The cheap collars for ladies and children are a grea* > faction at Mieses Addieon’o r • \ great variety to chooee from, it tanging from 1/ to 3/6, now 3d to 2/. —Advt. Reductions in all millinery, blouses and summer goods at Mrs Lloyd’s,