LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1917, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

A social and dauxce will be held in the Kanieri Public Hall on Wednesday July lltlrin aid of the Kanieri Rifle Club.

A notice of the deviation of the old ! main roadl at Woodstock appears in j this issue. I

Owing to the length of the big picture, ‘East Lyn n e,” McLean’s Pictures will start punctually at eight | o’clock to-night. | A white Leghorn in a single pen-laying competition in Christchurch is credited with laying two eggs in one day,, and a total of eight for the week. For 10 weeks the record of this bird is 64, an average of over six per week.

Every recruiting district is again in the ballot, including the Bay of Plenty, which, up till now, has held the proud record of having been in two ballots only. In some of the districts the voluntary response has been particularly pooi-, the three Canterbury districts for instance, only securing a combined total of 28.

“Billy” Sunday the American revivalist, speaking to a vast New York audience, expressed the hope that Theodore Roosevelt would be given an opportunity to head an army of American troops in the fighting in Europe. All the prophets had carried “big. sticks” said Sunday in a sermon that was full of militant and patriotic utterances, and tjtaero was no reason why Roosevelt', one of the most prominent exponents of the big stick, sfiould not be given the opportunity he sought to serve his country. “They say Roosevelt wants'to take to take an army to Europe,” the revivalist shouted, adopting one of his favourite fighting poses. “I say let him do it. I’d like nothing better than to go along witli him, if .it was just to black his boots.”