DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by telegraph—run press association.] DKCKMBKR AYFATH FR. WELLINGTON. January 7. The Director of the Meteorological Bureau has issued the following weather statement for the month of December : Dull, mild and humid conditions were features of Deiemehr weather and " • o associated with some heavy rainfalls, especially in the North Island and the north-eastern parts of the South Island. The returns so far show the heaviest rainfalls in the AVa.inirapa. The only

parts of the eountrv so far (showing that they have had less than tlm <vcrage for December falls are Hokitika. (1 1'i‘vnioiith, Clyde. Queenstown and I arts Central I Hugo. South Canterbury reports more wet v.oalhcr than usual. Slimmer electrical conditions were prevalent and thunderstorms were reported (hiotl.v about the Mb, 7lh. and 22nd. Barometric changes were ((milium hut fluctuations of pressure were more frequent than phenomenal though the means for months were everywhere considerably below the average.

NO BRIDEGROOM. AUCKLAND. January 3. Alter arranging to combine the Christmas Fee celebrations with the marriage ceremony of his daughter, a resident of Remuera and members ot his family received a rude shock cil discovering, on the morning fixed tor the wedding, that the prospective bridegroom had disappeared. Apparently not the slightest suspicious concerning the young man’s boiia-fules were entertained by either the young lady or her family. The trousseau was ready, and the preliminaries to the wedding ceremony had been settled. It was not i ntd the wedding breakfast had been laid that the hride-to-be received the startling news that the young man had vanished. Any doubts regarding the truth ot the communication were speedily dissipated. and the voting man Ims r.ot befit seen sineo,