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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1925, Page 3

LATE LOCALS

Miss Maggie Fo-ter who appears at McLean’s Pictures to-night will commence her violin selections at 9. In o’clock.

By notice in the “-Gazette' it is provided that a sum of C2BIB 18s Id. being the amount received in the dilI'erenL acclimatisation districts by way of lines, together with half the net revenue derived from fees and royalty with respect to the taking of opossums, shall be divided amongst the Acclimatisation Societies as follows: Auckland L'3 17s fid. Bullcr £ll 13s Id. Grey £ll (j |2s Sd. Unworn LI 17s Id. Nelson LS7 8s sd, North Canterbury £ll2 0s 2d. Otago £llO3 8s Id. Rotorua L 217 17s (id, Southland £57 7s sd, Taranaki bifid Ids 2d. \Yaimale Lit -Is|()d, Wanganui £B3 13s sd. Wellington £109(1. Westland L 135 5s 9(1.

A remarkable sight was reccni iv witnessed by tbe crew ol a Bluff cutter, while cruising olf the Heads, at Bind, states an exchange. One of the members not iced a 'seagull unable to vise fmm Ilic uati'i' ami apparently sit-k. Hi- slc'imi in ; i- direction with (he humane object of putting it out of its agony, bill on approaching saw that both its legs were held in the mouth of a voting shark. I lie shark made away as the boat approached and l]ie unfortunate gull lose and llew away, wlien if. was seen that both l'ts legs bad been taken oil'. Apparently the shark bad no! been strong enough t<> drag Hie nesting bird under the water, amfhad therefore been patiently hanging on its leg* wailing until its slroiiglh was gone and il could be devoured.

A notice in the “Gazette” stales that if lias been decided to bold a special Public Service entrance examination for male candidates, eommencim*' about Juiv I Itli. The examination will most probably be held at the following ceures:- AYliangarei, Auckland. Hamilton, Thames, New Plymouth. Stratlord, Wanganui. Palmerston North. Gisborne, Napier, Dannevirke. Mastorlon, A'i ellinglon. Blenheim, Nelson, Reel ton, Westport. Greymouth, Hokitika, I■,mini. Christchurch. Dunedin. Gore and Invercargill ; but. should sufficient candidates oiler, the examination will beheld also at other centres. If necessary, candidates will he required to attend at some centre other than the one mentioned in their application form.

"Everybody interested in the business „f importing Hour from Australia knows that the export price and the domestic price of Hour in Australia are exactly the same, and there i* a possibility of a dumping duty being imposed at present,” stated a Chnst,'biii'ch merchant <>» Saturday. Ihe mere!,ant added that tbe statement ■ that there was a possibility that the embargo might be re-imposed was only a weak threat. Fairly large quantities of Australian Hour were now being imported. and some bakers were quite willing to pay as much as £2 a ton more for it than for New Zealand Hour, for the reason that when mixed with the local Hour it produced better bread and went further.

\ dug-light will attract a crowd, but j at sucir a 'scene one sees on the tacos of the “rubbernecks” the bg'i 11 battle (says tlm "New /eahui Times"). On .Friday an -mude t Courtenay Palce was viewed by many but tbe countenances ot tbe. were downcast and long drawn '1 he e was a tense altnospl.ere oyer the whole (■inhering, such as one eels m tl. murky gloom when one’s hearings 1 aye been lost and there is a feeling <'t dyypair nnt unmixcil angin**h. * head of, alt* had collapsed m lr^ nt of one of the hotels and the contents woio Hooding the streets. The trams splascd through it as they rattled I* , an I n swirled along the gutters. [he nosm of some of those present qmve.eH Uiit thev stood by like one unable to „svtin watching a comrade m flooded wnteis. No one possessed the do or die temperament of the desperate hrembmen whom Dickens describes m Ins Rile o Two Cities” as lapping up tlw nth wine from the road as it was finding it.« wav to the gutter. Still there was one philosopher in the crown, and as tie nectar of the classical gods was slowly drifting by lie muttered: they would make more use of tins in Invercargill.”