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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1923, Page 2

A mooting of the R.S.A. general committee will bo hold at the County Chambers to-night at 7.30 o’clock.

10 doz. men’s’ merino underpants and singlets, usually 8s 9d ; sale price 5s Cd at Hollenstein’s, Revel] St.—Advt.

It is notified that the banks in 'Westland will observe a special holiday on •Saturday, August 4th. on the occasion of the opening of Arthur’s Pass tunnel.

Owing to the prevalence of the iniluenza epidemic, it has been decided not to hold a soldiers’ sale day this week, and in consequence the depot in Revell St. will be closed for another fortnight, 15 pairs men’s knee gumboots, great Dominion make, usually 32s Gd ; sale price 27s Gd at Hallcnstein’s, Revel! St.—Advt. At the Magistrate’s Court, Grevmouth, yesterday, on a charge of drunkenness and ohsieno language at Blackball Alfred Kirk was convicted and sentenced to three months imprisonment.

At the practice of the R.S.A. Minstrel Troupe at the Soldiers’ Hall tonight at 7.50 o’clock, a date will be selected lor the first public entertainment in about a month’s time. .A full attendance of orchestra and chorus is requested.

Soldiers’ Social Hall, Thursday evening at 8 o’clock sharp, fresh euchre tournament begins, valuable prizes, followed by supper and an assembly dance. Admission one shilling.—Advt.

An important meeting of the guarantors to the British and Inter-Colonial Exhibition project will be held at the County Chambers at 3.30 o’clock tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon to receive the report of the col lectors, and determine definitely the line of action with regard to promoting the Exhibition. All guarantors and intending guarantors are invited to attend.

Referring to the report that members of the House are inquiring what has come of Air Massey’s 1 promised strict inquiry into certain matters in connection with the Oatnaru by-elec-tion, the "Oatnaru Mail,” of Thursday slates that there has been no inquiry, nor is an inquiry going to be held. "The whole tiling lias been exploded arid there is an end to it,” Iho '‘Mail” adds.

Infectious and other notifiable diseases reported in the Canterbury-West Coast Health District for the week ended noon on Monday totalled 00, as follows: —Westland: Pneumonic influenza, 2. Bullet - : Diphtheria. J: pneumonic inlluen/a, 1. Grey: Diphtheria, 3; pneumonic influenza. I.' North Canterbury: Scarlet fever, 5; diphtheria, G ; tuberculosis, 6 ; pneumonic influenza 19; pneumonia, 1 ; puerperal septicaemia, 1 : erysipelas, 3. Ashburton: Scarlet fever, 2; pneumonic influenza. 4 : pneumonia, 1. South Canterbury: Diphtheria, 2: pneumonic influenza, 5.

The death took place tit the residence of her daughter, Mrs Harry Levy. Derby Street, Westport, on .Sunday, of Mrs Gibson, one of the oldest residents of Dennislon, where her late husband was in charge of the main engine al the brake-head. She was also mother of Mr Adam Gibson, of Wellington, formerly baker at Dennislon and Mostport, and of Mr das. Gibson, of Granny. Deceased was a native of Lanarkshire. Scotland, and 77 years of age. She had boon ailing for a considerable time. Her husband predeceased her by a. few voars.

A rather good story is told by ft dairy factory manager who recently had occasion to visit Kuku, Ohau, says the "Post.” It appears that the Chinamen' at. (Haiti, having exhausted their gardens there, are going further afield for land for market gardens. The manager was conversing with the chairman of the dairy company, and made reference to the supply for the next season, "Oh, I’m not supplying next year,” said the chairman. "Goodness, how is that?” asked the. manager; “and how about your herd of Jerseys?” "I have sold them," was the reply. "1 have ninety-six acres, and I have leased them to the Chinese men at £ls per acre. They are the best darn Jerseys I have yet seen.”

A five-soater touring car, with driver and passengers, capsized at. a small bridge beyond Murchison, near the Rocks, on Friday night. The driver apparently noticed 100 late a small bridge on a curve, lie went to follow the old road and then patching sight of the deviation, attempted to swing round on the bridge, hut the ear did not conic round quickly enough and toppled over to the crock, wheels upward. Fortunately, the door flew o]K>n, enabling the occupants to creep out, otherwise tliov might have been drowned. The car was very badly damaged. The sharp curve to the bridge is very dangerous and is likely to cause trouble save to those who, like the service drivers, are intimate with every turn and corner of the road.

With so much sickness prevalent innnv households are finding the benefit of gas heaters for the comfort and convenience of patients. The treatment of influenza calls for the maintenance of a regular temperature and a cosy room. A well-regulated gas heater supplies what is required all through the day and night. It is a comfort by day. At night it can serve as a night light, and hot. water can be heated readily to replenish the water bottles, or hot drinks may ho prepared at a moment’s notice. There is no chilly atmosphere in the sick room in the early morning, where the gas heater is on duty. Householders should consult the gas-fitters with respect to supplies of these useful appliances, which have their uses also in the summer as well as the winter. They are the utility service for any and every household, and this is being realised more and more.

White-bait netting.—fstrmig double mesh netting 72in. at 2s Od per yard, SGin. 2s lld per yard. Wo import- direct from the manufacturers, a fact which explains the low price in comparison with comiicfitioii. -Addisons.--Advt.

According to a Christchurch paper, tile new overland service to commence on August Gth., will on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays leave Groymouth at 10. In a.m., arriving at Christchurch at 5.38 p.m. This train will connect with ltoss on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Under the new timetable the train will leave Christchurch thirty minutes later than a.t present, and will arrive a.t Grey mouth at exactIv the same time as the present train leaves Otira. tor Greymouth. In addition to the saving of time by going through the tunnel the train will he considerably speeded up on the Meet Const side, as a result of a slow train, being scheduled to leave Otira for Groymouth shortly after the express train. The journev between (hristehuieh ano Arthur’s I’ass will be speeded, up by little more than ten minutes. A stop of twenty-five minutes for refreshments will bo made at Otira by both trains. Factory Owners: (.’over your boilers with “fieotts’ ” Mica Non-conducting Composition whieli is sweet and clean to handle and will outlast all other coverings. R. P. M. Manning and Co.. 5 Bedford Row, Christchurch.— Advt.

Slumps come .and go, but the enormous sale of “NO-RUBBING” Laundry Help goes oti year in, year out. (Hokitika merchants). —Advt. No reasonable offer for cash will he refuse dfor the balance of our millinery, to effect a complete clearance. Get in earfy at Schroder and Co. Remembered we are determined not to carry over any hats. —Advt. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Children’s Hacking Cough,

10 doz. boys’ fancy all wool jerseys, usually 8s Gd ; sale pdice 5s lid, at Hol-lenst-ein’s, Revell St.—Advt.

Mr and Mrs A. Wood, of Adderlev Street, Westport, lost their three year old daughter, Molly, at G o’clock on Sunday night, her death taking place from gastric influenza.

Messrs L. E. Aldridge and Co., Hamilton Street, Hokitika, ha-vo boon appointed agents for Westland district for the Yorkshire Insurance C<>y., and a.re prepared to a coopt- risks in evendepartment.

Hie usual fortnightly meeting of tile Druid’s Lodge, Westland No 89, will be held, in the Lodge room, Town Hall, Hokitika, to-morrow (Thursday) evening at 7.30 o’clock. Visiting brethren cordially invited.—Advt.

Tbe distance between Christchurch and Greymouth through the tunnel is 1-15 miles, and the railway fares will be as follows : First-class : Single 22s 3d return 4-ls Gd ; return excursion 31s 3d. Second-class : Single 15s 2d, return 30s -Id; return excursion 23s Sd.

A cable message from Sydney states that Miss Ethel C-mphell, known as the "Angel of Durbin,” to thousands of Australasian soldiers who ealied at the South African port during the war, because of her unwearying attention to their wants, arrived in Sydney on Saturday, and was given a demonstrative welcome by soldiers and public.

Schroder and Co. are making a special display of evening goods that have just cotno to hand in good time for the Hospital Ball and other functions. An early inspection will be necessary See changes of advt. Schroder and Co. —Advt.

A .Southern correspondent writes:Mr Steerc of Greymouth. is at present engaged on Mr Hyndinan’s farm at Wntaroa. giving a- demonstration with a Ford tractor and attached plough, and the settlers have been much interested during the display. Mr Hvndman proposes purchasing the machine which no doubt is a great labour-saving device.

The Arthur's I’ass tunnel has a length of 5 miles 25 chains 12 feet, and there was a drop of 850 feet from the Arthur's l’ass end, giving a grade of one m 33.01-1 feet. The height of the tunnel is IGl't. Gin. and the greatest width is 15ft. It is the longest- tunnel in t-lie British Empire, the longest tunnel in the Southern Hemisphere, and the seventh longest tunnel in the world. The cost: of the line from the year 1895, when the Government took the line over from the Midland Railway Company, was £2,180000 and the cost of the tunnel itself, as far as could he estimated was £l,300,000.

Tile. -‘Nelson Mail” in a re rent number reports that a. 15oz. gold nugget was secured by dir David Ihvan. lrom his claim at Howard goldfields. Las is the record one mi far obtained on Unit field the previous largest being Bl,oz.8 l ,oz. in weight. Howard goldfield is about, seventy miles cut of Nelson, and has been worked since 1913. It is about 3000 ft. above sea level, and it only a. water supply was brought in to permit of sluicing operations to be carried out on a large scale, it is considered there would be room tor 500 miners on the areas.

Mr Henry Ely Shaeklnrk, ol Sliacklock and Co., range makers, died at Dunedin on Monday morning. He had a touch of influenza oil Saturday morning. The matter was not supjwsed to lie very serious, but to le on the safe side a doctor was consulted, and thepatient was put to bed. Nobody thought of anything to give occasion

for worry, and il was therefore a staggering shock to find, bet ween 4 and 5 o’clock in the morning that. Mr Shacklock had quietly died in his sleep, the came being a heart seizure. In the absence of his brother -Air J. B. Shacklock), who has just reached London, the leadership in the linn was taken over hv the deceased.

Tho Associated Board R.A..M. and R.C.M., London, announces that tho practical examinations throughout New Zealand will he conducted by Mr Algernon Lindo this year. Mr Undo visited New Zealand as Examiner in 1917, and he has carried out examinations for the Board in nearly every part of the Empire during the past ton years. lie is an accomplished pianist, and his hook on the Art of Accompanying is the standard work on that subject. The examinations will commence at Auckland at the end of August, and will finish at Invercargill about tho middle of December, Wellington about , October 10th.

Important to Hokitika residents: The great record-breaking Eire Salvage Sale of Mayfair Stocks opened at Hokitika on Friday, July 20th, a. large quantity of salvage goods have arrived, all of which have been marked a,t sjiecial low prices to effect a sjieedy clearance before tlie wet goods mildew. McGruor’s, Westland, Lid., Hokitika. —Advt.

Leaky Radiators, tubes or joints permanently repaired by “Radorene’’ with, out having to resort to the soldering iron. “Radorenc” does its work in a few minutes. R. R. M. Manning and Co., 5 Bedford Row, Christchurch.— Advt.

Invitations have been issued by I sidy Seal to a reception at the Salon of Madame Menere, Fashion Furrier, Corner of Cashel and Colombo Streets, Christchurch, when a new shipment of fur coats and bridge wraps which ltave just arrived from the leading Court Furriers of London is oil view. Correspondence invited by Madatno Men-