LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1922, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Mails which left Auckland'on 25th July via Vancouver, per R.M.S. Mnkura arrived at London on 2/th Aug. The members of the Dunedin. Burns Club have forwarded ;i donation, of £lO 16s to the fund for the Burns Memorial statue to he erected at Hokitika. The total of the fund now stands at about £2OO. The Ladies’ Hockey Club will leave on Wednesday morning next for a tour of Westport and Ueefton where I matches will be. played on Thursday and Saturday of next week. It is not convenient for Blackball to arrange a team, or a match would he played there, hlho on the tour. It was a very much-lost kitten which was found the other evening in the lobby of the post office, but its troubles seemed over when a friendly stranger came along, reports the Christchurch “Sun.” This person left the post office with the orphan, and he had not gone far before lie met a man who agreed to take it to his home and to treat it kindly. The new owner could not take delivery at the moment, so the kitten was left at a certain club until it could be called for. It was not called for until tlie next morning, by which time Hie unfortunate foundling had lost two of its lives and was feeling

ra'theri unnerved. Tt had. spent the night through some misadventure, in the ice chest-. Early in the morning it was discovered by the maids and as it obviously required thawing out it was popped into the oven. The maids were busy, and they forgot for a time all nhont the kitten. When they remembered. the kitten, perspiring freely, was executing a dance on the floor of the,oven ! Tt is now progressing favourably.