LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS

Mrs Preston notifies that on and after February Ist bread will he on sale at her shops Gibson Quay and Revell Street. Intending customers are reguested to notify. * Look! Apricots, delicious 'Roxburgh arriving to-morrow morning’s train fid. lb., plums 6d lb., pears 6d lb., apples fid. lb., cucumbers from 4d each and don’t forget we are selling our sweets also at cost to clear at “The Rivoli” Revell Street,—Advt. “All right hack there?” bawled the conductor. “Hoi’ on. hoi’ on.” thrilled a feminine voice. “.Tes wait till 1 get mall clothes on.” And then, as the entire earful craned their necks expectantly, she entered with a basket of

laundry.— American Fegion Weekly. Captain (>. I 1 ’.(1 wards, who returned from Santim quite recently, informed n V.Z. Times reporter Hint lie bad heard that a number of girls were seeking clerical positions at the Islands. , "I strongly recommend girls not to I go to the Islands. There is little sustenance in the food, you only get fresh meat once a week, and practically no milk. It would take ten years off a young girl’s life to pay a long visit to the islands, let along to work there for any length of time.” ! I The first exhibition of trick flying in Auckland was given recently by j Captain A. (\ I'phani, D.F.C., in a ‘ new Avro biplane from the New ZeaI Jnnd Flying School. Ascending to a 1 height of 3000 ft. the pilot ‘‘looped the loop.” ‘‘rolled.” and took a thrilling : spinning nose dive, finally flattening out and landing on the beach at Kohimarama after having been -If) minutes in the air. Five new Avro biplanes are i at present at the flying school waiting ■ to be assembled, ! The Mayor of Christchurch < D'r. Thacker) has revived his proposal to tax bicycles in the eitv. He proposes to have each bicycle registered annually by the traffic inspector, and to charge a fee of I -. As there are -10,000 bicycles in the city, he expects to ol>tain from the system a revenue of £‘2ooo a year, which, lie states, will meet the expense of patrolling the streets in order that traffic by-laws shall be observed.

In reference to the reported murder of two white men at New Guinea, Mr Eric David 8011, of Sydney, and Mr Dresehler, bird-hunters, and a number of, natives in the Fly river country, the Papuan Government, agent at Sydney. Mr ,T. T. Benstcd, has received information that Mr A. T\ Lyons, the resident magistrate of the Western Division of Rapua, with liis headquarters at Daru, who went to the Fly river to investigate this matter, has returned, and reports that it has been proved to the satisfaction of himself and the Dutch New Guinea autholrities that Messrs Bell and, Dresehler returned to Dutch territory, from Australian territory, hut that their future movements and ultimate fate are al present unknown.

A seafarer, believed to be an American from one of the boats in port, caused some astonishment on the waferfront at Wellington in the vicinity of the Customhouse on Tuesday by swimfming aroqnd in ’the harbionr fully clothed including his hoots.. A dingy manned by a couple of waterside workers went in pursuit of the swimmer., but lie eluded capture for a while by swimming under the wharf. Eventually he was beaded off and captured but when least expected he dived off the dingy and swam away. Ho was recaptured after a chase and hauled aboard the tug Karaka. 'Hie wharf police, observing that the man seemed to be mentally unbalanced took him into custody. The prisoner ha<f evidently been imbibing freely.