LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

In connection with the Chautauqua season at Hokitika next month a meeting of local guarantors will be held on Tuesday next at 7.30 p.m. to arrange for the disposal of tickets. Just landed to-day at the Rivoli Revell St., delicious apricots, peaches, plums, cherries and tomatoes. We have Nelson green peas at 4lb for Is. Also nice fresh cabbage and rhubarb.—Advt. As our space in this issue is not large enough to advertise the scores of boot bargains we are offering, we invite you to call and inspect them yourselves. Every boot and sbye in our store is a bargain, N.Z. Clothing Factory. -Advt. A timber stacking competition for a prize of three guineas will be held un Cass Square to-morrow at the Wate siders picnic. Competitors from ‘he sawmills will bo welcomed. Mr L. Birks visited Lake Kanieri this foi enon, and inspected also cthe power station at Kanieri Forks. In tbe after noon a visit was paid to the Rimu Flat gold dredging scheme, where the machinery is to be worked by electric power, and later went on to Ross. Air Bilks returns early this evening, and will lecture at the Town Hall at 8

o’clock to-night when he will giie some interesting particulars relating to local hydro-electric schemes and the utilities of electricity in general. The public are urged to attend to-night in force as the present is a useful arid rare opportunity to obtain much general information on electrical supply matters. The subject is sure to be well before, the people during the year, and to-night’s meeting will supply much knowledge on the wide subject. Commenting on the charge of treachery in connexion with the Jutland battle, the “Wanganui Herald” says: "It is ii far cry from Zeebrugge to New Zealand. But it is a fact that several weeks before the British naval attack on Zeebrugge harbour, when several old British cruisers were sunk in an effort to block the channel, a letter was despatched to Wanganui containing the ■ information that such an effort was to be made and giving the names of at least one of the cruisers and the commanding officer who subsequently took j part in the action. This is but one of many instances where information concerning the intended operations of the British leaked out before practical results were attempted, and to this leakage is attributable many failures and I disasters.” j

An accident occurred during the progress of the North Shore v. Ponsomby cricket match on .Saturday, in which N. C. Sneddon, who captained the Auckland representative team in the recent Southern tour, suffered a painful injury to his right eye. He was howling at the time, when the batsman, L. Gt Hemus, who had run down the pitch, drove the ball very hard, and Sneddon, who had followed up his delivery, and was therefore very close to the batsman, failed to get his hands up in time to protect his face, the ball striking him almost full on the rightf eve. He was immediately motored to j a doctor for medical attention, several stitches being put in the wounds above and below,the eye. When Hemus was making the stroke* the end of his hat scraped the ground, otherwise the hall would have been lifted over the bowler’s head.