Late Professer Sale.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1923, Page 4

Late Professer Sale.

i ntkh !•:‘-t•:x . n kv f.;; i:s c . \ " ! .ate Pi !••- r 'ale :> pnpm J —The <.'i;ri.su-i:iiu-.i " Press ” re;r, to the I:!iv.' 'l’l-oif'.-'ir Sale as being ■ of i!h- carlv o liters i f that paper. : „:.e time. lie. wit It a now-paper •:: in by tii” nanie of Klein and lirouno, iirlv.i a daily morning paper at Lloki;kn ill lia ■ • rtr!y days oi that place, it was a class production. and i»uk entitled the •' Westland Observer,” ..It wht il.er it v«s title to the town a, ,!!!.. d ,* v.ill. iiiiaiicitdly speaking, or the iiji.!i i !•• .... n;iji,>r it tvts, ; t did not lasi tei'v ii 'a. and it proved a bad “s; " for li( mi nrieiiits. Mr Sale vas tin- t• 1i ■: r, and that is sufficient to sav that the paper was n high class n"e. '1 !:■ writer has a mason for rom;' . roiis ;' o fir-; is-no. He was da 1 i 1 1 .- ;■ large nninher ol the papers t» Koss, taenty miles south ol Hokitika: for tins run a horse had been brought by the proprietors. This ninud win- a well known one over - i i.-X- " in i!u>so days, mid was nani•d ■ P.-owu Stin:i." owned by Mr sum ■i'arfortli. anil iinariahly in his races •Idd.ui by :ie "Old Identity." Hilly ; j-:■ ilayutg loaded no will: ban oil ero-5... | Hokitika river bv . maea-mi’s boat and received the atlio: ! re -iablekeepcr. The road most of the way was along the sea beach an<l at every liiekling stream of '.(liter, of which there were many, the ailing,d would tala' « dying bmp ’*■ from olf a ten foot distance, the hag f papers coiling round I .■ upper part of the body and la-ad. \t hen nearing ike Mikonui river, close to I’-iss. the . ~;l il:d bad to be turned round till tlie iidto dismounted, otherwise it would km - made an attempt til jump that sire*, tit * On returning to the ntiice <fter getting back, the difficulty "i t!t the animal was recounted, ti e ri- er was , Id 1 o had had a ride on one of the ■ cst hurdle racehorses that was in New y, mm,.j at the time. Perhaps there f, few. horsemen about Uangioia knew " !’>r iwu Stout ” the jnntti.-r. wrili-r has m'ver forc.ottell the siidic it I’ro.li ssor Sale as be recounted ~, 1,j,,, ;,i- ride to lioss on idle unknown great " leppcr."