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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1918, Page 2

The mail steamer Navua, which left San Francisco on iho Ist inst., was due at ■ Wellington yesterday. The Naval Adviser announces that another mine was found off the North Gape on Saturday week and destroyed.

A notification by the Westland Charit able Aid Board a pears in this issue, m reference to deaths and funerals.

The “ Inglewood Record ” has had to temporarily suspend publication as a result of the epidemic.

Tim Canterbury Education Board give notice in this issue to all primary school teachers to send in their animal and quarterly returns at once.

The Wellington Education Board has decided that the whole of the State schools iu the Wellington district shall not re-open again for school work until Thursday February 4th .

The “Christchurch Press” of Friday says: We have good grounds for stating that the story., related in the message from Sydney about the collision of the New Zealand and Australia in the North Sea, sent from Sydney is inaccurate in tho main detail : it was IT.M.S. New Zealand that was rammed by H.M.A.S. Australia. There are officers at present in New Zealand who saw 11.M.5. New Zealand alter the collision, and one of them states that she was badly knocked about by the impact of the Australia. The Minister of Internal Affairs has notified that annual meetings of County ■Councils fixed for next Wednesday, (the statutory time), for the election of chairman, are to he abandoned. A subsequent date will he fixed for the meetings, and tho proceedings he du’y validated. Iu this circumstance the annual meeting of tho Westland County Council on Wednesday next will be dropped, as also, the ordinary.meeting fixed to he held on the same day. These meetings will stand adjourned sine die. Accounts for the present month will be passed by the Finance Committee us early as convenient in December.

Captain Hall-Thompson, accompanied by Petty Officer West, on Wednesday week exploded the German mine foimu on Wairougomai (Otaki) recently. The spectacle was witnessed by a large number of people. The explosion was plainly beard several miles off, and at Otaki township, a distance of four to five miles houses shook, and windows rattled. Mr A. J, Knocks carefully took measurements of the hole made by the explosion, and found the circumference was no less than 84ft-, the diameter 25ft. and the depth loft. Fragments of the easing of the mine were hurled in various directions and many of the pieces were sent about 800 yards. There was a rush for fragments which will serve as mementoes.

A Wellington correspondent says that Sir Joseph is taking some, pains to dissociate himself from the ‘‘Nation Party” proposal, and in doing so seems to have the approval of a large majority of his political friends. The story whispered about, after the publication of the resolution adopted at the Reform Caucus was that the two party leaders had put their heads together aim devised a scheme for th,> perpetuation of the party truce. But both Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward have denied ,any collusion towards this end. As a matter of fact, Sir Joseph knew nothing about the proposal till he saw it in print, nnd it may be assumed that Mr Massey, though observing the spirit of the truce is not in tho habit of taking his colleague on the other side of politics into his confidence with regard to the proposals he makes to his friends.

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Sickness and vomiting from a disordered stomach may be relieved by taking SHARLAND’S FLUID MAGNESIA.