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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1920, Page 2

The weekly supplement issued to our readers with to-day’s issue is full of very attractive reading. \ fancy goods shop in Revell St. is offered for sale in this issue. Particulars from M. Houston and Co. The County Clerk notifies that the valuation lists for the rating of mining properties are now open for inspection at the County Office.

Owing to the shortage of labour at Wellington, the s.s. Paeroa is detained, and is expected to leave there on Moni • a day evening. St, Paul’s Methodist Ladies’ Guild are holding their annual ‘Easter Tree and Sale of Work on March 24th. All helpers and patrons kindly observe date and keep it free.—4-dvt. The All iSaints’ Sunday School will re-open to-morrow with the usual monthly children’s service. The Vicar’s prize for church attendance for the past year will be presented during the ser-

nee, The management of the Hokitika Boxing Association have made arrangements for the fight on'Saturday pight to be over in time to allow the Run. tapu and Ross residents to return by the usual train, and also for the Grey Sports to return by the 9.20 train.

Local sporting circles are looking forward eagerly to the boxing bouts announced for next Saturday in y the Princess Theatre, when Peter Cook and Sailor O’Dea meet in a fifteen-round bout for a purse. Roth men are steadily training, and there is considerable speculation as to the outcome. I here will also be a. special six-round amateur heavy-weight bout between R. Rooney (Otira) and H. Shaw (Paparoa). Both , these men are well known on the Coast as being a bit above the average in the noble art, and as both are of the aggressive stamp, an interesting bout is sure to be witnessed. A remarkable double fatality took place at Coburg on January 8, when Mrs Florence Brew and John J. Sheehan, dentist, were found dead in Sheehan’s surgery by the police, says a Melbourne paper. The information gainer hears out the conclusion arrived at. that j Mrs Brew collapsed after cocaine had I been injected into her gums prepnratory to th,e drawing of a tooth, and that Sheehan, after making vain efforts t' ' restore the patient, .and fearing the possible consequences to himself of the fatality, swallowed a quantity of cyanide of potassium. Sfjgehni) had been under treatment for nervous trouble by a doctor, whose aid lie solicited by tcleI pjione niipn his patient had collapsed.

I There was the unusual incident at the : Warden’s Court yesterday afternoon pvheu a member of the legal profession ! was in the witness box and under crossexamination. The witness in this case was decidedly not brow-beaten, and appeared to got the best of the argument, especially when counsel put a question purporting to bo according to a letter ! in hand, wj/jcb the witness at once deI nied, apd which on the letter being ! produced, was found not to contain the jpontext of tbe question put. Subsequently ip apojth’cr case, a pieniber of the Fourth Estate and another solicitor went into the witness box to give evideuce as to the character of an accused person, when the Sergeant of Police allowed the evidence of the first to go by withpuj. question, but he took occasion to cross-examine the latter witness, as to what his evidence was worth. The solicitor declined to hind himself down as giying evidence of a legal man, stating lie was there simply In his citizen capacity, a, statement which the Sergeant accepted, anti allowed the matter to rest at that.

Stationers and Storekeepers,—kindly call at vour earliest to seo our new stock of “THINKER” and “KEEP SMILING” Writing Tablets, “THINKER” Pictorial School Exercise Books apd Note Books, also ‘GOLDEN RULE” Ru)pr s with metal edge. Best for every Hpjpg,—Wni. Perry and Co, Ltd. —Advt,

Nail Brushes 3 for' 1/-, Jcyes’ Fluid 1j- bottle, Dyola, and Rit dyes 8d pkt., clothes and boot brushes IOJd and i/-, machine oil 6d bottle, Eucalyptus 1/bot.rjo, jfujjjber sponges 1/-, glycerine and cucumber 10id bottle, face cream 7Jd, Hazeline snow 1/6, corjcEcr.ovv and can opener combined, now ,6d each, mouse traps, pqw 5 for 1/-, a,t McGriicrs Great Clearing Sale »ow op.—Advt. If you want real bargains ypu i»ust visit Schroder's great clearing sale, which is now on. Inspection cordially ipvited.—Advt. Tested in thousands of kitchens,

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