LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1923, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

All Saint- Tennis Club will i pen their season on Saturday at leriioon next. The Mainigaiiui is expected to arrive til U’clliugtoii at d a.m. on I'Tulay i'n.m San |' raueisfo. "Xu. I didn't, semi you a hill, hecai.se I didn’t know wiiethe; you were in heaven ot hell, or where yen were, was tlie somewhat .surprising reply of a witness in the Auckland Supreme Court when being erne,-examined by a l-aim-runt wiio was charged with olegaily ontaming credit-.

The death tenk place at Victoria Hospital. Wellington to-day m Mrs Harris, jvliel ... tiie fate Mr .loiin Harris ol R im ll . and mr many vears a well-know n resident ol the di-uucl. c-lrs Halily.n- a daughter t Kloreiiee) ol the bile Mr and Mr.- Upjolm. formerly of Rimti and Hokitika, and a brotiier ol Mr Cowries U pjo!!11 oi Ro-s. fi.-eeased bad been 111 falling liealth lor som- time. A grow !i-u|. iainiiy are im I . The value of kauri limb -r rm civet! striking testimony Irom the southern reservoir. Dunedin. The yiwdvork ... the tower there has been standing in the water since 1--. Huriieg n ■'> !;l exeavalmils it wa- loiu.d lltal wnde tne cast-iron work under the seme coadt.toi.had rusted so that it bad to e.- built up with reintoreed eeiierete. toe kauri timber i-ei-nied as ire-li a- when U v. as put

Three hundred million two-eon t. stamp-. primed m black and bearing the head-profile ot the late President Harding, have been issued m the UmtStales. ’1 he tir-t -beet or tile new stamps is to bo present'd to Mr- • Imdin---. Onlv one - before h. i- a mourning siamp 'been issued for an. American president (President Ltme.lni. am. -h'ea.i permi-siou bad to be obtained Imm the Postal Union for tlm present is-ue. specimens oi whieh will be (are.mlv siored by eolleetors. Speaking at Dunedin ll 'e ‘•Star"). Mr •). VC Munro. M.l sat.. ill tit it there was one scandal more than another bred trom Urn war n was tin shortage of bouses. He had road how the Mayor (Mr H. L. lal>h‘.v appalled at the slums jn which some pc. - pie had to live. ine Laouiir ar .. however, luul been telling people to. vears that there were shuns n. Dunedin. and that there was a necessity tor more houses. Those in iw'ver had recognised tins. The po-uion in • north, according to what be had 1k. ; 5 iohl. was oven worse than it was t.liIC.