LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1924, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The latest gazette notifies that His Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the disbandment under Section 43, Defence Act, 1909 of the Kanicri Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Kanicri. Date of disbandment, 21st. January, 1924. What- is “mild” behaviour by a wife;' When it was staled in the Supictne Court at Wellington, that a wife had taken revenge on her huslumd for breaking her violin by chopping up tlie piano with an axe, counsel explained that a great deal had boon made of the incident at the time of the ease. As a matter of fact, the woman had only hit- the piano two or three, times, and the instrument had been repaired for about two or three pounds. Jii.s Honour: It is quite mild compared with a case at Wanganui last v-eek. . . A woman bad got- busy u ;b a- hammer and smashed pretty well everything in the house and then stinted on two motor-cars. Counsel agieed that the former was “mild” by comparison.

Air Arthur Henderson, of tho Labour Cabicnt, who has been rapped over Hie knuckles and apologised for m Parliament by Air Ramsay MacDonald, is known as “Uncle Arthur” all through the British Labour movement. Unlike Air AlacDonahl, whore jellyfish proclivities are well remembered, Air Henderson was solidly on the right side through the war. Ili.s three sells joined up; one gave his life for Ids country and the other two are now in I’aiTiiiiiHitU cm* of them, by the way, being an honours graduate of 1 a.nibridge University. In the days when he was a member of the AA ar Cabinet. Mr Henderson was kept- waiting on the mat by Air liloyd George on a certain famous occasion, preceding Ins resignation, so that this is not the first time he has met with a slap in the tree Iroinhis .chief while serving as a Cabinet Minister. Besides being one of the must row erf'll personalities in f;>_- Labour movement Air Henderson is st«ed to he easily one of it.- best dressed members.