LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1923, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

.Mr A. lid,an is the luimlicapjicr for the chopping and sawing events at the Woodstock Sports oil Thursday next. An application was made in the lligh Court- Dublin, on behalf of Patrick (<avin ,a brewery employee, to fix the hearing of a jacitation of ina-i riage .-nit. Mr Justice Dodd: “What in the world dees that moan?” Count'd: “It means that a petitioner wishes to restrain a woman from falsely boasting that she ihis wife.'’ ■‘.Manawatti is destined to become the ctntre of the .New Zealand poultry industry.” remarked Mr .1. A. Smith at i meeting of members of the Manawatu Co-operative Utility Poultry Society. lie commented upon the great voting strength of the -North Island. 1 the success of the Mamiwntu delegates at the l icent cunferem, > of the New Zealand Poultry Association. “Little hoys gamble even more feverishly than their elders” remarked a limaru resident- a few days ago (states the "Tiniani Post”). lie said tiiat hoys of I” years or thereabouts, .some of them in Tiimiru, indulged in betting transactions on quite a large scale, considering the amount of their spare cash, and that their heads were, he said with asperity, “tilled with tip- and bookmakers’ chat.” That Otago apple-growers are fully avake to the importance <1 cultivating over.-eas markets is emphasised ‘by the fact that the I’akeha lias been loading at Lyttelton the first shipment of Otago apples tot Buenos -Ayres, via .Monte 'Video. The line consists ol 1100 cases and comprises ICO cases ot Jonathans, 300 ea-es Dunn’s Favourite, with the balance made tip of Shorthit d Queen, Delicious, Rome Beauty and Cleopatra. The South American market favours lar e-sizc:l apples, which arc not suitable for the London market. ,\ t the meeting ol the Invercargill Farmers’ Union executive, a »nictnl.er stated that he had noticed that a movement was on foot in have the protection removed from weasels, lenvt-. and hawks. He stated that these veto of great benefit to the tanner and were instrumental in keeling down th 1 peats. Another member stated that he had m l had a trapper en h:- property for twelve years, but had encouraged the weasels and hawks and these had kept down the rabbits. !I is was the only farm in the district whi---h was free from rabbits. The meeting decided to make representations to prevent the protection from being removed. \ l.idy visitor arrived in Wanganui for shopping week (says the “Herald’ L and as there was a. heavy shower during the morning site took shelter in :i small hotel to pass the time aw.ty until the weather broke. I nfortunately she tarried too long, anti on emerging she was noticed by a constable to • e a little unsteady in her gait, so he invited her to postpone her shopping for the afternoon and accompany him to the police station. The lady explained to Messrs (lower and f.ifiiton, justices of the peace, at the court- tlii- morning that she had left her gold ring in the care of Uncle Saw, as she found th,® shopping business a great drain upon her finances. She intended going ml t the country. The justices, seeing that it was carnival week, took a lenient view of the situation and told the lady to got away to the country. ‘And don’t let me see you here again on Monday,” added Air flower. “X -t mi ver life, ver worship," replied the lady, ns she bowed her acknowledgment to the bench.

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