LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1920, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

fhe Westport Pf.H.S. footbnjl team e< ’jvifl be {ho guests of tfie SQuihfrn Df- S vjsipn Jit McLean’s Pjctures t>j? pvep- h jpg; Captain Ellison arrived last evening to take charge of the Wakaiti which sails by to-night’s tide for Okarito if “ circumstances permit. ' A youth named Charles Crumpton, a n cadet in the Brunner Post Office, acci- a dentally shot himself through, the leg yesterday. Dr j.. W. Mcßrearty was £ept for apd ordered % remcjvartp the hospital, A final reminder is given'Of the Hospital Bali at the One Mi|e Hall, Arahura, to-night. 'Patrons are assured of an excellent night’s enjoyment and r „ at the same time they will assist a wor- « thy cause.—Advt. The following is the Kumara team * for to-morrow: —Rothwell, McCarthy, Lloyd,. Fitzgerald, Wright, Murtlia, Steel, ! Rockford, Martyn (3), Johnsen, r Steel, J. Murtlia, Ay'den. Emergen- f cfes McEnaney,'' G: Murtlia,' J.' Me- j jjjpnnjd, ,T.‘ Rochforfl. ’ ' ' , "' ‘(pQ-inorrbw afternoon a fifteen-nich O.hop takes place at Otira on the sports ground at tlie' Otirft Gprge Hotel, for a'wager of £lO asidCj and b gold medal ' by Mr Bep MpFarlane. Tfie contestants' are two local men, Mpssrs and Cuniiffe, and the event is pausing a lot pf interest locally, both jneft having ipimorflusj supppr^rg. Ladies passing by Messrs McGruer apd Co’s windows in Revell Street today had thjair attention specially drawn to a very attractive display of millinery pqw being wade. In une window the dressing "was especially _ artistic, shades of pink making the window a veritable fairy bower. Needless to sajy the’ effqrt§ qf the window dresser met with a deserved reward, by the special potice drawn so strikingly by the capital display, „ r . , ' The death took place on W ednesday night at the Grey River Hospital of Mr Harry G. Mnnro, a well-known Greyf mouth resident at the age of 58 years. Deceased, who Was a single man of genial unassuming disposition, had been a resident there for about 30 years and was a native of Kumara. In his • young or days he was a fine footballer apd was Member of the old Oriental Club here, being considered one of the host hfylf-v ' * backs of his day op the Op?# Ho took o n interest in the turf, and often vrote iinmorous verses for the press ™*£ subject. For a long tune he had suff - ed from asthma, which tyas the pause his death, ■ ■