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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1921, Page 2

The July meeting of the Westland County Council will be belli on Tuesday of next week. This is a week in advance of the ordinary meeting date.

The monthly meeting of the Hokitika Beautifying Association takes place at the Town Hal) to-night at 7 o’clock.

A euchre tbiirnameni will he held in St Joseph's schoolroom, Kanieri, tomorrow < Wednesday) evening, com-

mencing at 8 o'clock. Good prizes Admission Is.—AilvC.

A further reminder is given ot the Jumble Sale to take place in Longford Hall, Kokatahi, to-morrow afternoon in aid of the Catholic Church fund. There will be a big array of goods of every description for disposal, and a great success is looked for. Ihe sale starts at 2 p.m.

The usual weekly euchre tournament and dance will be held in St Alary’s club rooms to-lnoi iow (Wednesday) evening. Ladies’ prize a silk blouse, and gouts, a parcel ol meat. Siippei and dance to lollow. Admission Is.— Advt.

The dance in aid of the Excelsior Football Club takes place in the Supreme flail on 'Thursday, June 30th. The music for the (laiice is iii tiki capable hands t)f Air A. 11. Lawn, while the supper arrangements are in the bands of a strong ladies’ committee. Dancing commences at 8.15 o’clock sharp. Efficient M.C. v Admission: Gents, 2s; ladies, Is. Advt.

The death took place at Alurcliison on Thursday ot Air Joseph Blown. Deceased was ail old and highly respected residen of Brunner. Reef ton. and Murchison districts. In his younger days' lie followed the Occupation of mining a ltd later took up fanning at Alurchison. He was an ex-chairman of the County Council, a director of the Alurchison Butter Factory and a member of the Nelson Land Board. He I, 'fives a wife a lid family.

At a recent gathering of poultrymen in this city, an experienced poultry raiser advised that, in order to cure toe-picking, the chickens’ legs should he dipped in titr. “If you do that you will never have ally trouble,” lie added. ‘■That's all very well,” commented another expert. “but bow long is it going to take to dip 21)00 chickens:''” Prompt and pat and unexpectedly came the answer: “From the time you start till the time you finish”—a response that simply “brought down the house." In the current issue of the "Police Journal” a new beat system for police is advocated isavs the Melbourne "Age”). The men, it is stated, regard the present system of street patrol at. night as obsolete, and not productive of the best results. The suggested system entails the provision of one man for every street, and in cases of the larger city tboroiighfaies, one man for nicli side of the street. The scheme provides also for quarterly or hall-hourly points, arranged so that the man on the beat could go in any direction, in bis own time, within bis own section, making it difficult fin thieves to learn his movements. While 2127 clergymen in Australia reciived, in the latest year revised by the 'taxation Commissioner in his annua] report, a gross income ol only £i'o7.(-‘BB. Hie proprietors of soft goods iclail stores, liumberiny 2288, shared an income of £9,627,986. The clergymen paid f 10;1,384 in income tax; the soft goods proprietors e mtributed L‘28();{,756. Farmers, who numbered made a gross income in this period of £31,25)4,336, and paid to the Commissioner £525,85)5) as income tax. Pastoralists, though numbering only 11,493, made almost as much as tlu* 42,867 tanners, an dwere called upon to pay in this tax more than three times as much—£l ,879,187. Mining businesses, represented by 518 organisations, realised a gross income of £7.415,605, and wore assesed for income tax for £164,668. Ladies who have deferred buying their winter coats will assuredly welnjiiic the fact that they can get a beauty now for 49s 6d. 59s (id, 75s and 80s. They are all fashionable, smart and serviceable, and so good that (Hasson’s, Wardell’s Buildings, Cashel Street, Christchurch, will refund the full purchase price on any one of them if not in every way worth two pounds more than the price asked. Turtliermore, practically every colour is represented. Men’s ovorcoaits in all sizes mav bo obtained at ;>ss, 59s 6d, 10s, 80s, 955. These are bedrock cash prices and are less than cost of manufacture at the present moment. Secure one now, they will never be so low again, and your size is in stock.— Advt. Three good values for your money’s lines now at AfcGruers. Gent’s superior quality rubber lined raincoats worth 89s fid, now 29s 6d ; men’s dark grey hard wearing tweed trousers worth 255, now 16s 6d; men’s tennis neglige and working shirts \vortli 1.4 s 6d, now 6s lid. MeOruer and Co., Hokitika and Greymonth.—Advt. For Influenza, take Woods’ Gieat Peppermint ire. Singers and public speakers find •'NAZOL” unequalled, for preventing oj. relieving huskiness and soreness in Gib throat., pan bo taken ;\n>‘rc

The North Island mails by the Maori connected by motor car with the West Coast express this inorhing: Mr B Ward (County Chairman) has kindly consented to. open the jumble sale at Longford Hall on Wcnesday afternoon at 2 p.m.

It is notified in this issue that Miss A. M. Rowe of Sewell St. Hokitika, a St. Helen’s district midwife, has been established by the Department ot Health.

A grand ball will >r 1 -U at Longford Hall, Kokatahi, oil Wednesday, 21 -i\ June, dancing to commence at 8 p.m. Adniissioa, jreiillemen 2b (»rl, i.itlies Is. —Advli

The Hochste.tter Goldfields Ltd., washed up last week for 1M ounces. Tlie previous clean up yielded H < ounces. It is proposed to wash, up again in about three weeks’ time.

The All Saints Tennis Club’s ball in the Drill Shed to-morrow evening promises to lie One of flic best this season. The music is in the hands of Messrs Law n and Gibbons, while Mr Bawden will have charge of the floor. An excellent supper Inns been provided by the lad,\ members. Dancing will commence at 8 o’clock. Admission Double tickets 5/-; Single 3/-; Ladies 2/6.—A<tvt.

‘ A good view of a volcanic eruption on Isabel Island, in the Galapagos Group, about 700 miles from Raiiama, was witnessed from the steamer _hasten! Crown, wliich arrived in Auckland from New York on Saturday, the eruption was observed on the night ot May 22nd, the sky being lit up for miles around, while columns of dense smoke were ejected horn the crater. A volcanic eruption broke out in Isabel Island in I Silt), but since then it has been marked on the chart as inactive. The Ka stern Crown passed about ten miles off the island. The bearings taken by her showed that the recent disturbance had not occurred in the same spot as the one that was recorded in iS99.

A call at Humphrey Island, a lonely spot in the Pacific Ocean, was made by the steamer Waiotapu on the voyage from San Francisco to Auckland (states the -‘New Zealand Herald”). The course taken by the steamer brought her fairly close to the island, and when approaching it Captain Barlow observed a party in a ship’s boat making towards the steamer. The Waiotapu was slowed down lo allow the islanders to come alongside. They explained that no vessel had visited the island for many months, and asked for books and reading matter. This was immediately given, together will a supply of I resit vegetables and stores. Humphrey Island is one. of the Maimhiki Group, about (>O9 miles south of the equator. It has about 500 inhabitants, who exist principally on coeounut.s.

A policeman walked into a Napier saloon tor a shave. As the eliaiis "ete ,„.fiipi, d. he sat in Ihe waiting queue, put Ins presence was the signal lor a discussion on a criminal ease m which ~ man bad been found guilty ot manslaughter. No. 1 wanted to know what the prisoner would get. 10 yeais or -0. No. 2 said they should hang him. and the policeman was appealed to. He said the sentence depended on the Judge, who was a new one. "What sort .da man is lie:-” came from No. L I He policeman replied. "Well, he was a very clever lawyer, end a level-headed man when I knew hi . hut it is hard to say what be will tilin' If •” Aml tlleU one of the occ.ipa.hs got out ol a chair. It was the judge, ainl the policeman lost no time in coming to the attention.

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