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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1918, Page 2

Tlie Success dredge washed up yesterday for a return of 49 ozs 14 dwts for 116 hours work. A meeting of the Packet Day Committee will be held in "the Town Hall this evening at 8 o’clock. Tenders are invited for the purchase and removal of the large business premises at Ross in the estate of tinlate Peter Keller. Purchasers of Prize Packets will be pleased to hear that amongst the choice prizes will be included a' five year old bay filly donated !-y Mr Fred Andrews of this town. There will be a rehearsal of “The Gondoliers” at the Princess Theatre this evening at 7.30. o’clock. Air Pollard will supervise the performapee. At the close of the practice arrangements will be made for the visit to Greymouth on Wednesday next, when it is hoped as many performers as possible will travel by the ‘ mid-day train: on which special accommodation 1 "’hi he reserved; The company will return by the early train on Thursday morning

Til© latest casualties among .West Coasters at the front include the following v cases : —/Wounded;. O. P. Malloy (Westport)/ Aicken. J. A (Westland); Elliot, G. M. (Blackball); O’Neill, F. L. (Cobden) ; Quayle, G. H. (Westport). The four last mentioned not being severe cases. A late hospital report mentions as seriously ill: C. A. McCracken (Greymouth), and N. 'T\ Kearnd (Hokitika), and as not severe cases, A. M. Sorgeson (Westport) and A. King (Hokitika).

To-morrow (Sattirdiiy "33rd) will be a “Special Liverpool Depot Day,” when members of the Lady Liverpool Club will be busy from 10. a.m., selling delicacies of the season in the shape of fruits (blackberries etc), choice vegetable, and all sorts of other, appetising edibles, calte s (various), seojies (various), home-made breed (white or

brown), brawn, tongue (cooked), homomade sweets and lovely flowers. Patrons who call ealrlv will naturally have the best choice. Donors are asked to bring their gifts as soon as convenient on the day of sale. The proceeds are to swell the Prize Packet Fund.

Arrangements are being forwarded for the performance of “The Gondolier” here on March Ist, Mr Tom Pollard will have the production under personal supervision, and the display will be heightened in effectNby improved lighting for which purpose, electric light will be used. Mr pollard is making the special lighting arrangements. The production will be made without any expense, Mr Pollard giving his services gratuitously, the Princess Theatre Cby providing the theatre free of charge, and the advertising being free. The whole of the proceeds will go to the Westland Patriotic fund. The hox plan for this special entertainment, will he open on Monday morning at Browne’s. In commenting on the sale of the shares of the Hain Steamship Company Ltd., to the P. and 0. and. British India Navigation Companies—the price being believed to he £BO for each of the 49,957 ten pound shares—the “Times/ of 27th October remarked: “The present is the second important fusion with the Union Steamship Company, Ltd of New Zealand. It was then stat ed that, including the vessels of the latter company, those of the British India, and those of the New Zealand and Federal Companies, which were acquired last year, the P. and -• fleets would consist of 300 steamers of 1,726,475 ions. If there had been no losses in the meantime the total by the acquisition of the Hain fleet would amount to 333 vessels of 1,335,262 tons. But it is well known that unfortunately, the cargo fleets of the P. and O. Cpmpanies, like; those of other lines, have suffered serious losses by enemy action, and it may he presumed that the importance of replacing losses'has been a main factor in influencing the’company to make the present offer. The price the company proposes to pay for the fleet is large, but it is* clearly vital, not only in the interests of the companies themselves, but also in those of the whole nation, that the regular services of the liner companies shall he maintained at all costs.

Misses Adison are showing smart novelties in Crepe-de-chine and voile sailor collars.—Advt.

, Messrs J. Ballantyne and'Co notify in this issue special sale bargains' are offering.

Messrs M. Houston and Co. notiiy their entries for Monday's stock .sale at Arahura. ,

The collections announced yesterday in connection rvitli Packet day by Mr. F. Groufsky, were made by Messrs. F. Groufsky and A. E. Stapleton as representatives of the Druids Dodge. A young man, a’ former resident of Reefton district, was arrested by the police last evening about five o’clock on a charge of being a deserter under the Military Service Act. .Mr P. 0. Webb, M.P., who spoke at Mr Holland’s meeting at Nortbb

Wellington, on Monday night, remarked that he was the only constitutionally elected ALP.,*, he having-been rttelected since the life of tliepresent Parliament had constitutionally expired. The residents iof tihe district and scholars of Blue Spur School recently made a presentation of a handsome silver-mounted liand-bag to Miss Evelyn Millner, as a marie of their appreciation of her services during the three years she had served as teacher at 1 school. Miss Millner took up her new duties at Koiterangi School at the beginning of the month. ■ { On the Bowling Green last evening on the suggestion of the President (Mr Wm. Wilson) it was resolved * to I offer the use of the Green for an after. | noon foir the benefit of the Prize Pack*et Day Fund. It is proposed to have ! a match between two rinks of ladies j and two from the Club, the latter ; to play left handed. Afternoon tea | will he provided and a golf putting j competition will be held. There will : be a .charge of one shilling • made (a prize envelope) /for admission. The , matter of'fixing the day was left for | the president to arrange.

The use of electric beds for desper--1 ately wounded in the war zone lias h ><»’- so increased that now most modem field hospitals are furnished with a few of these inventions. Extreme cases brought in straight from the battlefield to the field hospital might sometimes he saved could they only live to endure, the necessary operation. Too often, however, the action of the heart is so weak as to he imperceptible, and it* .that case little can be done to save the man’s life. Now. however the man is placed on the electric' bed, which benignly warms him through and through. No pulse in a number of cases becomes some pulse. The heart boat.* grow stronger, until the man is able to hear what is befpre him. .