LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1918, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Misses Addison have opened up • a supply of whitebait netting. The ladies of Kanieri are requested to meet at Kanieri Public Hall to-morrow (Thursday), at 8.15 p.m. to make arrangements for the “Bluebirds” Concert in aid of the Lady Liverpool Soldiers’ ’Xmas Parcel Fund.—Advt.

Tho people of Kanieri and surrounding district can expect something unusually enjoyable in the advent of the “Bluebirds” under tho baton of Mrs Ivon V’ilson, at Kanieri Public Hall next week.

There is on view at the shop of Messrs \V. 11. Tisdall and Co., Christchurch, a magnificent red stag’s head, shot in South Westland by Mr. John Cron. It is evidently from the North Otago herd, which is spreading on the western side of the main range. The horns are -lof inches in length, 45 inches in spread, and with a 5iJ inch boa in. Tho number of points is 20, and although the tops are irregular, there is a very even apt of lower tines, and the bend altogether forms a massive and bold-looking trophy. “There is no hope hero that tho war will be over shortly,” writes an American business man in the course of a letter to a friend in Wellington. “Instead,” he said, “it is figured that it may last for several years. After avo have three to five million men in France wo look for things to change, and I can .assure you that the Germans will know that tho Americans aro in France before the next spring passes.

“I am not one of those who think that once Otira tunnel is opened everything in tho garden will be lovely,” declared Mr E. J. Howard when urging the usefulness of the Canterbury Progress League on the Riccarton Borough Council. “Of course, I recognise that it is a magnificent thing to have east and west linked up, but 1 do not thing that the through railway will carry through anything like the amount of timber, produce etc., that will be produced on the Coast. We must there fore have to look nfter the seaborne traffic ns much as ever.” The Red Cross Euchre Tournament held in tho Supreme xiall last evening was fairly well attended considering the very rough night. Mrs A. Leslie won the ladies’ prize and W. Sumner the Gents'. After supper the floor was cleared for dancing, Miss Roberts, Miss Heenan, Airs Stark, and Miss F’anc supplying the music. Air 11. Thompson, the M.C., announced that another tournament in aid of the Red Cross Fund would be held,next Tuesday evening, the All Saints Tennis Club kindly foregoing their tournaments until the Red Cross had three benefits.