LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1918, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Trving-out operations are being carried out on the whale washed up on the South Spit on Saturday last. The vicinity of the sea monster is now r.o hard task 1,0 define, without- the use of one’s eyesight. Air. Frank Williams -teller at- the National Bank Hokitika has received advice that two brothers who are commissioned officers in the British Apniv have both been awarded the D. S. 6. Tlie Paeroa left Okuru this afternoon She will call in at Okarito to pick up a passenger who is dangerously ill and who is coming up for an operation. She will therefore arrive at Hokitika about 1' p.m. on Saturday Mr. James Murthn, Snr., one of the pioneers of the Coast, and for a spacr of forty years n resident of KufUara passed away at the residence of his daughter. .Mrs Crisson, Nelson, on Tuesday morning last. The late Air. Murthn was a very old resident of the Coast having arrived in Ross in the early 'sixties eventually settling in Kumarn. The deceased was a sterling, upright man. who made many friends hv his quiet unobtrusive way and at the time of his death was 87 years of age. Two sons and two daughters are left to mourn their loss.