LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1918, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

v.n i i. «&+£> While the Wairnea was on her way iiom 'Groymouth to New Plymouth on Wednesday night, the steward, named Britton, met with an accident by falling and fracturing the right thigh. Captain Graham put into Westport and had Britton removed to the hospital. The little lad, -Moore, who recently won the beauty competition at Cadzow’s Theatre, very nearly came to a sad end in Victoria Square, West-port., (says the “News” of Thursday.) He j was taken there bv bis sister six years

* ? of age, and, in an unnoticed moment, the youngster fell into the pond of the fountain. An elder girl tried to fish him out, but failed. His sis-ipr then came to -the rescue and getting hold of the little fellow by the bolt pulled him back on to dry land. The lad who is only some ,18 or 19 months old, took the immersion quite pluckily, hut, all the same, it was a narrow escape for him ‘Nind again illustrates the necessity for having some sort of protecting fence around the pond. The following is taken from the “Kansas City Star” of August 8, 1917: "The New Zealand troops. wearing 1 1 .-v 4-

j field hats like our own, peaked at the . j top. and with a red hat-band instead of | our (U.S.A.) cord, seem to me to possess a certain lithe grace of carriage j and distinction of countenance all their j j own. They, too, are tall slender fellows j i without the awkward of the Austi\a]in'll , | nor the beef of the English, llioy re- : mind me of Harvard and Yale track j j teams done up in khaki. on would ' I think them born aristocrats from their j i cleanly-chiselled features and well-set j ■j „p forms. I find, too, that others here | have received the same impression of j them.”—Dr. Burris A. Jenkins, writ- j I jug from “Somewhere in France.” J