LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The death of tin old and respected resident of Inahgalnm district. Mr Martin Ryan, took place on Tuesday at Reefton Hospital He was another victim to the dreaded minors’ phthisis. He was a well-known miner, and worked for a number of years in the Alpine Mine at LvcH. and after leaving there followed liis calling in flic different mines in this district, and laterly resided at Cronadnii.

Sir Ernest Cassel. who left C 0,000.000 in his will, expressed the wish that Brook House, I’ark Lane, anil its contents should llevei be -old bv any person entitled thereto under Dis will, an ! he requested each -uece-sive holder to observe this wish. Should the trusts under the will fail. Brook House and its contents are to lie ollered us a giD to the then reigning Sovereign oi England. and, if the gift lie not accepted, then it is to be given lo King Edward's Ho-pitul Fond I'm London

Napier's gie.it Christmas ntiiaetion. the Mardi Gras Carnival, pioved a hiiiliant success, bringing a large num-

ber of visilm- from tl ■■ -ormonding district-, and front lot amid. lie pro--ex-ion (on-i led "I 1 !>• lq array of industrial, dr, to a I tve, end humorous exhibits, eelipsii:.: -'0 pie’, ion- ; I f.a-ts. Oilier ultra,-! ions included a" amateur boxing tournament. a tug-nl-vva;. cricket matches, ladies looloall match against a team Itoin Welling.on, and open-ail entertainments. Except for a shower ol short duration on M»ndav, ideal summer weather pievailed.

Captain Mir.ger, „i the hnit|i!ciitiur Y.-al.el. states that when he 'ell Niue Island on December 9;b lor Auckland there were ten or twelve \\ 1 1 iv - * persons on lie island who we), ,|. -iioils of leaving for Auckland, hut “heir depaiture was prevented because Oleic was no vessel on which they could oli a r a pas-age. Eo; some time these people had been awaiting an opportunity of leaving 10.-ir LI md home lo spend a holiday in lhe outside wot Id. no steamer call.-!, and there tiny i, mained eagerly waiting a dinner to vi-it those thev knew hi other pa;laml e.ie perhaps s. ill waiting. with s, aicelv anything to abate thcii desire except the apmeuram eot a m I -1 or a column of smoke on the horizon, only pa- soon attoi out of sight once more*. \ viuß'llt t‘\|>it>M‘>ll 111 R IVLLtiI [MLnije show in Sunnier resiiln d in a Stampede for tie- dooi -o! the hull. ( hairs were overturned uml in the scramble quite a number of the wmlienee were bruised, while many solid cd from shock. To those inside the I,oil,ling it appealed. Iron, the smoke issuing through the operator’s window t!i«- fxpltisioii ticLiirrou amongst .he films. Thanks to theoperaPo, who soon continued ti e s ‘ tcv ~f Urn picture and to someone ni'ide who coolly leqiiesled t! e audience not in | u , ain'tmed, lhe panic "ax checked ami ninny returned to their aval-. ! was afterwards loiiml that a huge I; q la,tub had been thiown into the Lull ell! ranee, vvheie It luol explode, |,..law the box containing the films and y.

\ s , result of the necessity for economy in all Government undertakings at, present, tl"’ discontinuance "« "} |„it absolutely necessaiy expenditute. it ; has been decided to discontinue the j "Journal of Health.” the office! puhli- , of Ihe Health Department, alter | the issue of the Dcombor number. Ilm ; “Journal of Health” is not the only j one to expire during the world epidemic j Of economy, lor it states it has received obituary notices of several other jot.r- ; uals notably that of the “Chanty Or- : gall is,a t ion Review," which has been in 1 existence forty-nine years. The “Jour- j nMI” was ostaLlisliocl four vunrs sij'O. \ and it Impos to lx* revived later. .