LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1918, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

; The Town Band will play a programme outside the Opera House tonight. Mr T. Thompson, C.E., of Westport has received news by the last mail than his nephew, Lieutenant W. J. Thompson of the Royal Navy, has been raised to commander. Commander Thompson is 28 years of age.

Under proclamations gazetted last week, 163 acres have been set aside for soldiersettlement in the Southland Land District; 4191 acres in the Taranaki Land District; 608 in the Westland Land District; and 1453 in the Auckland Land District, “If the food was such stinking si as you would lead tho court to believe, would it not, metaphorically speaking, have got up and barked at you,” asked counsel of a constable witness in „ case at tho Magistrate’s Court, Wellington. “Oh! it was not so strong us that,” replied the constable.

The death took place at Westport on Sunday, of Mrs Ellen Wall, relict, of the late Mr Wall (nee Miss Manderville) She was born in Tipperary in 1836, and came out to Victoria in 1851. From Victoria, deceased came to Hokitika in 1866, landing here at the time of the gold rush. Her marriage was celebrated in Westport in 1871. She leaves a family of two sons and a daughter.

Pathetic interest attached to a statement in the report of the reserves committee of the Wellengton City Council. It read:—“Tho committee have to report that one of Sir Ernest Shnckleton’s dog’s, Oscar, dropped dead whilst being exercised. A post mortem examination revealed that the animal’s liver was much diseased, and that tile heart was enlarged. Tho skin of the animal has been handed over to the Dominion Museum, in order that it may be stuffed and exhibited.”

The “Chicago Daily Tribune” prints the following rather mixed message from “A Pacific port, May 13th”: —The Right Honourable William Morris Hughes, former Premier of New Zealand, arrived here today with a party of Australian officials en route to a war conference.in London. Passengers on tho vessel said a German raider had attacked and damaged a British transport on which the Premier had sailed previously. Passengers said Mr Hughes and his party on the return to port of the damaged vessel had caught a train to another port and embarked on the steamship on which they reached here. With Mr. Hughes aro William Ferguson Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Joseph Ward, Labour Leader, and Robert Curran.