LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1917, Page 3

LATE LOCALS

The Mayor • (Mr. G. A. Perry) with his sisters, Mrs. St. George and Miss Perry who left Hokitika last Tuesday on a trip to Australia, arrived in Sydney on Monday . \ Another reminder is given.of the sale hv auction to-morrow afternoon at 2.30. o’clock by Messrs Pollock "and Revan in the mart of furniture and effects, hams haoons and onions, etc. The Ararata Dairy Company paia out Is Rd. l-3d per pound for butter-, fat last year nhd 6 per cent on paid-up shares. The cost of manufacturing and placing Icheese f.o.V. (including leprociation) was 1.088- ' A northern excliango says: The scow Hazel Repton, which was sold recently by the New Zealand Refrigerating Company to Messrs Jeffries and Smith (of Hokitika), and which has been laid np a long time at Lyttelton, will shortly enter into the Wellington-West. Coast timber trade.

The marriage took place very quietly at St. Mark’s Church, Wellington, recently of Lieut. M. W.Smith, of the 29jbli Reinforcements, son of the late Hon. and Mrs W. r Smith, of Waipukurau, to Miss Helen G. Russell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Rifssell

“The Homestead,” Hatuma, Hawke’s Bay,, and formerly of Greymouth.

Soldiers allotment warrants sent out by the Pay Branch o"f the New Zealand Department during March last totalled no less than 53,013, an increase of 22,107 during the, year. Up to March 31, 1917, tho Department had also remitted £100,461 by cable to New Zealand soldiers abroad, the number of remittances on some occasions reaching as many as 60 nnd 100 a- day. “Before the war tho best customer of tho New Zealand primary producer was New Zealand itself,” said a speaker at a recent meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce (says tho “Times,”). “Tho people of this country bought 70 per cent of the beef, 50 per cent, of the mutton, all the pork, grain, coal and timber. The farmer is not entitled to talk as though the local market was of no account.

In tile course of an inquest at Auckland on the body of a child that had died from croup, Dr. Reekie stated that there was a simple remedy for croup in every household that should be widely known as a go°d palliative while the patient was awaiting the arrival of a doctor. Ordinary baking soda appled on the ond of a spoon and tipped dry behind the back of the tongue would give roliof in acute cases of croup.

Among tho companies recently registered appears the following:—Westland Gold Prospecting Syndicate, Ltd., Registered August 7th, 1917. Office: Woodward street, Wellington; capital, £15,000 into 15,000 shares of £1 each; subscribers, Wellington—P. Levi, C. R. Dymock, F.. A. Mackintosh, N. F. Willoughby, C. D. Graham, M. N. Al- ' pin ; Gistbrne —11. B. Williams —all one share each; objects, to carry into effect a certain agreement and to carry on mining. The death took placo at Cob den yesterday afternoon of Mrs Dinan, wife of Mr. John Dinan. The deceased, a native of Ireland, was 76 years of age, threescore of which had been spent in the colonies, and over 40 years ns a resident of Cobden. She leaves a family of two sons and four daughters: Messrs John (Wairoa), Patrick (Greymouth), Mesdanieis 'Parboil (Wellington), H. Young (Petone), Simpson (Cobden), and Miss Rebecca Dinan, at home. The days of large families have not altogether gone, as far as Canterbury is concerned, at least. Mr. A. C. Not* inghom of Halswell on Friday says the Lyttelton “Times” announced with pride and pleasure that ho had just m--3 gistered the birth of his twentieth ■ child. The little stranger is a boy, , and Mr and Mtb. Nottingham have ten boys and ten gilds. One of their ) sons lost his life in a bicycle aeddem r in Lincoln road a few years ago, twe - are at the front and one is a returned - soldier. Mrs. Nottingham in Bpite oj • the cares imposed by her large family eniova tha best of health.