NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1917, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The arrest of a Chinese woman at an early hour on Friday morning under extraordinary circumstances is recorded by a Wanganui correspondent. Ngau Kee and Co, fruiterers in a large way at the corner of the Avenue and Guyton Street, have been subjected to considerable losses lately by the mysterious breaking of large gas globes under the -verandah of their shop. Every time new globes were put on they Wefe smashed. The police then took a hand to investigate matters, and a little after one o’clock on Friday mottling the police oii watch observed a figure quietly creeping along the avenue to tlie Shop iii question. Oile big* globe Was smashed, and just as the person was about to damage another Witlt'riii 'ifbn bat the police flashed a searchlight in the face of the culprit, and discovered it was the wife ol an opposition fruiterer a short distance up the Avenue. When they attempted to arrest her she gave vent to some weird screams, and violently struggled against capture... She tried her hardest to bite the 1 constables,' but tliey eventually lauded her in gaol. She was remanded to August 22nd, bail being allowed in two sureties of

The new frozen fish Army contracts are evidently to be widely shared, as the announcement is made of a contract recently' closed by purchasers representing tlie British Government with Boston, Mass., U.S-A., fish dealers for the purchase of 14,000,0001 b of frozen fislf, mostly haddock and flounder, to be delivered during the following six months. The contract, it is stated, involves ail expenditure of approximately and is referred to in Boston as the largest single transaction of the kind ever undertaken. The fish is declared to be intended largely to supplant the meat food supplies of the armies in France.