LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1917, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Rimii No. I dredge washed up for 28ozs for the wek. She is now undergoing overhaul and starts again on Wednesday. Mrs. E. Davidson is clearing out her stock with a sale commencing, on Saturday morning. Articles for sale include a safe, wardrobe and machine. To enable everybody to participate in the Juvenile Fancy Dress Ball on Monday, adults will be admitted to the Drill Shed at 10 p.m., Gents 2/-, Ladies Is. The children finish and have supper at ten o’clock when the prizes will be awarded for the winning costumes Children of more than three in number will ho admitted at half price. Air. J. Aland! has donated 10/- towards the children’s prices. In a bitter gale in tlie North Sea recently the bulldog of H.M.S. ran to the side to bark at a dog in a passing fishing.-boat.; Tt . was snowing hard, the decks were covered with ice, and the dog slipped and went overbftard. It was at once obvious that tlie ' dog, a great • favourite, would drown; each wave threw it on its back as it tried to swim, and the spindrift and broken sea made it dangerous water for even a. good swimmer. But Midshipman Sydney T. Warr-Bu.ckler at once jumped Overboard, fully dressed and swam back with the dog to a rope thrown from the ship. Both ‘ were none the worse. The midshipman has now got tho silver medal of the Royal Society for • the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.