LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

No definite announcement has yet .been made Respecting who will be the

candidates for tho Wellington mayoralty in April next The present mayor (Mr J. P. Luke) has decided not to offer himself for re-election, and the public are anxious to know who the candidates are likely to be. As far as can he ascertained (says the “New Zealand Times”) the only citizen who has been approached so far is Councillor Len McKenzie, on whom an influential deputation waited and he has decided to give his answer within the next few days. Councillor R. A. Weight M.P. it is understood will probably be a candidate, and Mr T. W. Hi slop, who was a former mayor of the city, may also offer his services. ! “Do you remember promising t« meet me?” asked a defendant of a rather ejxcitalde male witnss in the Wellington Magistrate’s Coufrt. “I Jo not,” sharply replied the latter. “Well do you remember getting drunk and walking through a plate-glass window?” Apparently witness resented being so vigorously cross-examined by the defendant. “Yes, I do, but I was punished for that by this gentleman here” (nodding to the magistrate). The rennArks caused so much laughter that the court orderly was obliged to intervene.

Considerable ’excitement was caused on Cheltenham Beach the other day during a demonstration of life-saving methods by members of the Auckland head centre of the Royal Life Saving Society, owing to a bather and a member of the Cheltenham Beach patrol getting into difficulties in the water, states the “Herald.” As members of the patrol were swimming out to bring in a “drowning” man, —this being part of tlie. d^moiistratioki —a ha tin Jr was seen some distance from the beach apparently in danger. As it was thought however, that the swimmer was having a practical joke no particular notice was taken of him at first. It soon boeam apparent, howeverJPthat his distress was genuine, and he was rescued, after a shairp struggle. It was then found that the member of the patrol who had swum out to act as the drowning man, had developed cramp. Ho was promptly brought ashore by other members of tho centre.

The most interesting features of the final sittings of the Air Conference at the Guildhall, London were expert glimpses of what a future war will mean to civilians and Germany’s plans for an airship service to America. AirMarshal Sir H. M. Trencliord, dealing with war tactics, said that bombing to be effective must be continuous, and it was from the cumulative moral effect of attacks carried out day after day for a week or ten days that the lie.st results might Re expected.! Sir AY. Joynson-Hicks drew a . lurid picture of future warfare. The aeroplane, ,hc said, would bo the long-range artillery and war in the air would lie won bq the lon-range fast-flying artillery scouting machine, guarding the long-range bombing machine which would lie able to drop almost! rom an invisible heaven vast masses of explosives. The first people would suffer in the next wr(r would be the civilians rather than the armies. Vast armies of aeroplanes country, and the first attack would be on some of the great cities, in order to destroy their moral almost before the war began.