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Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1917, Page 2

The Success dredge washed ap on Tborsday for a return o f 30 zs, Bdwta for five days’ work,' Monday next being observed as a statutory ho iday in honor of King George’s Birthday, the Gua.bdian will not be published. from Tuesday next, the Guardian will be published from the premises in Weld Street, known as the West Coast Times Office, where all business will be transacted in future. Tho telephone number wilt be the stmo as before No 22 M. )Cj?or the eighth ballot drawn on Wednesday last, the West Coast shortage was 48, and as a ratio of 4£ to 1 was drawn, the number drawn in the ballot for this district will be 214. Tha result is expected to be made available on Wednesday next. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. 1/6, 2/6.

The Guabdian supplement it issued to our readers to-day in the usual course. Rimu No. 1 dredge washed up on Thursday for a return of 45ozs 16dwts for 10§ days’ dredging. Messrs T. Armstrong & Co., Ltd., of Christchuroh, distribute an inset of their annual winter sale with this issue. The monthly meeting of the Westland Chamber of Commerce will be held on Tuesday evening at 7.30 o’clock. The latest hospital report includes— Seriously wounded, severe case, but doing well, Private W. L. Cuttance. Tho Hokitika Harbor Board meets on Tuesday next at 7 p.m. A special meeting to deal with the balance sheet will also be held. A meeting of the Westland Patriotic Committee will be held at the County Chambers at 2,30 o’clock on Monday afternoon to deal with general business. A reminder is given that subscriptions are being received to-day at the Overseas Club for the Royal Plying Corps hospital. A distribution of free literature is being made from ttie rooms to-day, and on Monday special pictures will be on view at the rooms. On Monday evening at 8 o’clock at the Overseas Booms a special meeting of members will be held to commemorate Empire Day and the King’s Birthday. Short addresses will be given and discussions invited, and a pleasant even'ng should be passed. The committee of ihe Club meets at 7 o’clock the sanm evening to confer with the Returned tso.u.ers' Association regardiug the proposed ex- / tension of the building. While digging a trench in which to lay a sewer to the Petone Railway Workshops, a gang of borough labourers came across a lump of pure copper weighing between three and four hundredweight and valued at about £35. The she, it was afterwards found, was that of an old coppersmith’s shop, and the copper was evidently a stock ingot which had become accidentally buried in the ground and forgotten. While Island has been most active for some days (stated the Whakatane correspondent of the “ New Zealand Herald ” recently). At 2 a.m. one night vivid flashes of blue flames were observed issuing from the crater, tha whole of the sea between the island and the mainland being illuminated. Several "esidenis at Whakatane wore awakeaed by the glare of light through their windows and were rewarded hy a good view of the display, which last ?d for a considerable time. The Union Company’s well-known steamer Tarawera, which arrived at Dunedin on Sunday from Auckland and east coast ports, has made her last trip as a passenger steamer. After she has completed discharging, she will go on to Port Chalmers, where she will be converted into a cargo steamer. The passenger traffic between Dunedin, east coast ports, and Auckland will in future be catered for by the Monowai and the Huddart-Parker steamers. Mr J. Hewer has forwarded to the Westland Patriotic Committfe the sum of £7 12/6 being the amount raised at Hari Hari for the sale of an accord : an presented by Mr 8 P. Evans of Ross for the Belgian Fund, and sold by Mr Jeffries, The contributors were W. Jeffries £l, M. Patrick 12/6, J. Ford, .T. Diedriehs, J. McLean, H, 11, Adamson* J. Ferguson, C. Hende, R. Adamson, Friend, A. Mcßride, J. Dnnehy, C. Gibb each 10/, J, Thomson, A. McArthur eaoh 5/, The contribution has been forwarded to Mr C. J. Ward, Acting Belgian Consul at Christchuroh. With reference to the separation allowance of 1/ a day grauted to the widowed mothers of members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, it has been approved that the present regulations under which payment of this allowance is made will in future be proportionately relaxed as regards the qualification of a minimum allotment of 3/ a day of deferred pay in particular oases where a soldier establishes that he is unable to allot the fall amoant of his deferred pay. Such cases will be dealt with on their merits, and the allowance will be granted, provided the mother’s income Lom other sources does not exceed 7/ a week. Cabinet hag deofded that children’s allowance is to be paid up to the ege of 21 to soldiers’ children who am Buffering from meutwl or physical infirmity necessitating apeciM treatment or training in an institution where facilities for such treatment or training are •provided, Tub cimes into operation as from Macob 12 ia-t. A recent cable announced that the Macmillan expedition had arrived safely at Etah, an Eskimo settlement in Prudhoe ■; Land, on Smith Sound, north of Baffin Bay. Two members of the expedition, Mr Hunt and Mr Eblaw, geologists, sledged fifteen hundred miles from Etah to Godhaven, on the west coast of Greenland. Professor D. B. Macmillan’s main expedition left America in 1913 and it reached its final start-ing-point at Cape Thomas Hubbard, Axel Heiberg Island. In March of 1915 the leader of the expedition and Ensign F. Green had pushed north-west over the ice with considerable difficulty, and danger owing to thin ice for 125 miles. Although for a time appearances of land were seen on the arrival of the expedition at the position of Peary’s, supposed “ Crocker land,” it was found that the land did not exist. Cape Thomas Hubbard was again reached about the middle of May, and various plans were then formulated to explore Grant Land and the islands further west. Professor Macmillan’s return was expected in the autumn of 1916, and his non-arrival caused some anxiety. ‘J No Rubbing ” Laundry Help is our special favourite for washing silks, muslins, prints, woollens and mechanics’ overalls spotlessly clean without rubbing or injury to the hands or fabrics. We give tha famous Thinker Note Bmkfree with every 1/ packet of "No Rubbing."— Local Grocers,