LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1922, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The Very Rev. Dean Regnault, S.M., pariat of s«. Mary’s Manchester street, who left New Zealand early last year to attend the Marist ConferI t, Belgian!, and have a. tonr of France, his native country and. Britain, has returned to Christchurc .

The Governor-General has received cable information that the President of France has been pleased to confei honour of Chevalier of the Legion o Honour of France on Major-General Sir Alfred W. Rohm, K.C.M.G., C. • General Robin who recently reared from the position of general officer commanding the New Zealand forces.

Shortly after the chimes at midnight on Saturday had announced the end of the old year and the birth of the new habitues of the Grand Hotel who were celebrating the advent of 1922 were startled by a loud crash, as of rending timbers (telegraphs an Auckland correspondent). The kerb outs.de was lip- * ed with motor cars and one of them I had suddenly started on a career of de- . stmetion downhill. Crossing Princess street at an angle, it mounted the foot- j path, and collided with an old build- ( ine on the corner used as a Chinese i laundry. It smashed the Chinamans window, disfigured his doorway, partly , wrecked the verandah and then took a trip across the street. It dashed through a fence and fell 12ft or so into ( the reserve below, completely shatter- : ing a garden seat in its fall. Fortunately the car had n clear run and the % seat was empty at the time. The- motor 'lb car, strange to say, suffered but little /X damage. The Chinese occupier of the damaged premises apparently slept throughout the crash, for it was not until eariy on Sunday morning that he became aware of the state of his premises. “Velly, stlong wind last night G h 9” he queried! of a few early spectn»adras. “I no hear.” TM dint in his eye when he learned that the havoc was not due altogether to an act of God indicated that he was busy with the thought that the smash was after " - Ml not quite so irremediable as it might have been.