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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1920, Page 2

Air IT, Y. Widdowson, S.AL, at Dunedin, bus been offered the position of Judge at Samoa,

Addison’:-) v. cciioii.i sp. rials s—Sea giass mats os (kl, Vs tid, 10s Gd, twisted Chinese is oil. 10s (id, sea grass squares 6 x, 9 at 335, 9 x .12 at 67s (id; striped flannelette is hi.ls Gd. Is Sd.—-Advt.

For after hours trading, a Westport publican was lined £5 and costs and ids license was ordered to be endorsed, tiis wife, for supplying liquor after hours, was convicted and fined £lO and costs 7s.

j\l r T. 11. Hamer, for many years confidential secretary f>> Esc lute Mr Seddon, and afterwards UndsYrSeeretary for Mines, is returning to the Dominit).: by the Wiltshire on a short visit, and is due in Wellington in September.

Addison's wiek-entj ej.KY'bils : —Men’s cotton singlets -Is 1’ld; ill) wool Kinglets jind underpants 9s; tjveed trousers JPji (it l, 2$Z (id; navy Ikupiel upders ij's fid ; wool .ffiix i;J ( 2s »d, 3 t s 3d. —Aflvt. The total receipts .of the AVostport Trotting Club for the past year were £3363 7s 6d, the totalisatpr being (' largest contributor, £1515. Tile Chib commenced the year with an overdraft of £374 4s 2d and ended with an overdraft of £23 V()s 9d. A Press Association telegram from Wanganui reports the death of Mr T. I), Cummins, a pioneer settlor, at the age of 74, Hp was prominent in volunteer circles, ’ and won flip Carbine Championship in 1872. He was also ope of the best-knowon volunteer fire brigadesmen in the Dominion. An old man, named Janies Kelly, 88 years of age, who had been an inmate of tlio O’Connor Home, AVest-port, for sojpe two years, was missing on Saturday night and Of 9 «■?«• on Sunday, Messrs J. Bird and Dougl,as found' his body jn the Buller river beside the Domain. He was last seen alive about 7 o’clock the previous .evening crossing the railway. Deceased c;jup: from Hrefton and was one of the sturdy hand, of

pioneers who engaged in mining there and elsewhere on the Coast. Addison's week-end specials : —AA’hite towels Is lOd, 2s 3d, odpurpd 2s 3d, 2s (id (few only left at these prices) ; Colonial all wool flannel, 2s fid. 2s Od, 2s 10, white honeycomb quilts 23s 6,d, 245, 30s; marcclla 29s fid, 40s; ope piece only, unlileached calico !<oiiis wide, Is yard.— Advt. 100 per cent, fit—that’s how IMPEY’S I\IAY APPLE keeps the constitution. It purifies th e blood and aidß digestion. Try it

The travelling public are notified that tile accommodation house at Karan* garun, known as Seotts’, South Westland, will be closed as from Ist August. The reference to the -death ot Airs Douglas of Wood .mock yesterday should have read, the wife of Mr Robert Douglas, the well known resident of that township.

Nurse Strongman, who left the Grey River Hospital last week in order to take up a position in the Nelson Hospital, was before her departure made the recipient of a presentation by the staff of the Hospital. Addison’s week-end specials:—B only ladies all wool jersey coats, colours saxe, heliotrope, navy, Vieux rose and maroon were 955, your choice 52s (id. One only ladies brown tweed costume (.all wool), to clear 39s (id.—Advt.

'The young son of Mr Noel Davis, deputy manager of the State Aline, was injured on Monday evening at Rnnanga by the explosion of a detonator. With other school children the boy was playing with some detonators, which they say they found on the roadside. He* started to prick of the detonators with a nail or stick and it exploded, blowing off the tops of two of two fingers. Addison’s week-end specials: —Balance winter millinery to clear as iollows—All models 15s; straws 3s lid and 7s Gd; lot flowers Gd a spray. Remnants of ribbon at clearing prices. Advt.

“Already the Department’s engineers have gone into the question of what works are necessary to be done in connection with the opening of the Arthur’s Pass tunnel,” said Air W. R. McViliy, General Manager N.Z.11., when addressing a deputation which waited on him on Saturday at Christchurch. “Quito a number of these works have been authorised and are in hand at present, though you gentlemen see nothing of them.” In the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, before Air J, S. Evans, S.AI., a man named John O’Donoglme was charged with the theft of two glasses from” tlie Caledonian Hotel. For the complainant it was stated that in consequence of numerous glasses disappearing he was obliged to set a watch with a result that accused was seen to take two glasses from the hotei bar. Eventually he was placed under arrest. Accused’s statement in response to the /charge was of a very contraditory nature. At its onejusiou he was fined £3 and. ordered to pay the witnesses ex-? ponses.

Addison’s week-end specials:—lo only children’s overalls, slightly faded, were 3s «d to 6s Gd, to clear 2s Gd each. Lot children’s while gloves to clear Od pair, Lcit children’s cotton bloomers (oddments) in grey, navy and brown to clear 2s 3d pair.—Adyi.

When the South Westland railway project was before the Minister for Public Works at Wellington last week, Hon. J. Grjmmoiul was stressing tlie fact that for Westland, hundreds of miles in length, there was only one representative, while on the East Oast, for a similar length of the Island there were a dozen members 1 AJr Coates, sharply interjected: “No; Westjand hius (wo members, Air Seddon, and Hop. Gnmmond.” The members Jaughed and applauded heartily at this recognition of Air Grimmondks persistence in the interests of Westland. Air Grimmopd for the pioment was quite non-plussed, and the hero of many Westland .deputations actually blushed.

j ()f many remarkable shots played on . the Miramar golf links, one played by - Air Godfrey Magnus is surely amongst the mosf remarkable. He had played fpr a green, and hud landed in a position about half-a-dozen yards from the hole, when another player, hoiind for another green, sliced badly, and his ball Hit that of Mr Magnus’s with just sufficient strength to roll it into the hole, Air Alagnus vouches fpr the truth of the story, mid says that he very much doubts whether it has ever been done before in the history of the game. When asked how it counted, Air Magnus said that the shot counted as if hi? had holed direct.

Are New Zealanders to be compelled to use coarser Hour P AVe know not. That, howover, is what is happening in England. A late number of ‘The Miller’ announces that the British millers are ordered to extract 80 per cent of the flour from the wheat, thus bringing bread to war quality, obviously to cjie out tjie supplies of wheat. In New Zealand flic"' comimori percentage of extraction Is 72 and'74 is ' exceptional. (phe‘ English paper points out that to esstfiu##} PIT cent of Hour leaves duly 20 per cent of bran apii ppjjard, and that the reduction in the available quantity of these secondary products jnujit have an injurious effect on the qu ; a}|ity gf burring live stock. Just Lapded—lCO cases cooking arid desert ' apples 7/6 to 9/6 according to yarjety. Also 300 bales pressed lu- ' cerno hay from Blenheim. Paterson Michel and Co., Ltd., sLarf Street. Phone No 2.—Advt. Squad s-lpep, warmth, posy comfort with a “UNIQUE’/ HOT B.OTTLE in your bed. Patent a topper cannot leak. Obtainable everywhere. AVhen lniving look for the brand. }(eep the kicjfli.es well “NAZOL.'’ j is sure protection againsf cr.ijghs and colds. Sprinkle baby’s pillpsv. Older children can take it on sugar. No bad after-effects with AA’ABE’S AVORM FI OS: Plr.nfiant, sure and cer> tain

For Children’s Hacking Cough Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure 1/9. 2-9. Cut living cost by saving on blanket purchases. A “UNIQUE” HOT AVATER BOTTLE saves bed-clothes, and increases comfort. Ask for “UNIQUE whiph is brapded on neok of bottle.