LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1923, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The appoint mem of a new Judge of the Supreme Conn has not yet been anmuimcd, but it is understood, that the selection tor the position L Air \Y. ('. Alaegregor. who at present is Solici-tor-General.

(in Augu-i 2iitii. a partial eclipse of the moon v. ill I.e visible throughout New Zealand. The following are the divunislances of iho eclipse: Aloou

enters penumbra at 7.12 p.m.. : moon onlets shadow ; t 9.22 p.m. : middle of eclipse at 19.10 p.m.; moon leaves shadmi at 10.37 p.m.; moon leaves penumiira on .Align- 1 27th.. (t 0.30 a.m. Magnitude of the e lipse li.lti-S (moon's 11 it' motel’. 1 .OIK I' l .

.Mr Hillman, coni ractor. for the conveyance of cold from Rut ley's mine. Bullet’ Gorge, in The railway, took li| ms initial load on Monday. The mim

is at present pulling out 13 tons pet day for tin- purpose. Air Hillman haying a three-ton motor lorry on the mad.

\\ lien tlie output increases to 2LO tons per week, a second lorry "ill he pul on I a,- io:i.| The < u.d i- to he I ran-I'emi!. i in. <)t:ra tunnel to < 'hi istrhnreh. where supplies of coal for household purposes are very short. I lie Government- Inis large stand-by slocks for its o"'n requirements.

An Auckland report state.-: — “During the past few year- several vessels, carrvinir supplies ol raw sugar, hate arrived, ami lid- ha- bad the olivet of limited supplies becoming available. The company have completed extensions to their works, which will increase the output very considerably, and although it will take several weeks lo overtake accumulated orders, it is fell that l lie oulook ior the future fs considerably brighter. It is stated Gnu maiiuiael liters in some districts are being seriously allerted owing to lack of supplies, Inn it is anticipated that this state of alfairs will soon he overcome—meantime no further orders are living accepted.”

Foi- the satisfaction of seem people wlio-e ideas as to 1 lie relation between sentences imposed and the term .utea’dv served are hazy, il may he as well to state that novadasy it is seldom that a prisoner is discharged ],(. 17 re he has nearly or has fully completed Id- sentence. -talcs the Dunedin ••Star.” In the earlier years of the

present century ii wa- ti-ual lor a well-behaved prisoner to be released after serving fliree-fourths ol Id's sentence. That system has been alien'd. The prisoner now nni-t serve hi- lull term, though net neees-iirily all ol H in gaol. Fnder the Pri-oii- Hoard actual relea-e may take place when hut half lhe sentence Ini- expired, bu* the culprit remain- under constant police supervision for the remaining half, tlii- amount of liberty being entirely dependent on good behaviour, failure to comply with probationary requirements meaning a return to gaol. Recommended by the medical profession.— WOLFE’S SCI INARMS.