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Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1925, Page 4

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- EI.MW Eli MIBI.S OK PICA 1)1 LEV. I,ON DON. Ecbrnnry 7. i Kor tln- lluwer 'girls of Piccadilly ( irciis these are days ol drcadiul waiting. Within a week il may he today. il may he mi .Monday- picks will attack the base uf the famous loiinlaiu ;,nd ilie lithe statue ol Eros. Whenever a man with the dress or up pliauci's of a builder approaches there comes a timorous question from behind violets, blue winter roses, snowdrops, i and daffodils; " Von are mil going lo move I lie fountain, are von r” To them this public estate is a private estate, and ancestral. "Me have had some shocks I hi.I week.'' < i mUdcd .Mrs ('anger, who lor thirty years has stood at the foot of Er ,s giving London its hint of how the country i- looking. "The suspense is awful." ■'lt's a wicked shame," said another. •What shall I he able to do -Hi yearold and only one arm. and that knowing nothing except how to handle tloivoEs tenderly!- I loved the old hansoms. I. wish they were hack, ami that no underground station was going to oust us from pitches iliac have liven fought for." "Yes. she's right.” said another flower seller. ” In the old days. I remember, von utten had to fetch your man ii s,iiu.-bihlv was going to steal vein- piich. The other w„nl<l Urine her man. and it was a question ol who won. Them were the days • -!' Irish and Italian ■ ninnies ot street sellers- there was a big colony of them living Covent Carden way ami they could light.” "It's a life I'd oi'k again, although we simply followed people who had had the pitches before u-c It's a good life. We're not jdraid Vii' work, what with up at lour ami at the market at five, and perhaps the snow to get off v<nir pitch before you can sit down, and then keeping at it until there's nobody about. We are not ignorant—l we see the good and bad of life bore. I

and I toll you Licit I have learnt here there’s no such thine ns had at heart.’’ The flower girl of one arm pulled her shawl closer. "The poliee are kind.’’ she said, “perhaps they’ll find .somewhere for Us. If they do we’ll always reinemher the fountain, and every week v.e ought to go to it—where is it going lo lie. the Tate (Rill'ty:— in a party.” HACK TO RKSLTK. XKW YORK, damtnry lh-. ' In a teinperature of Khleg. below | r zero, a spool aeuhir rare again sc death! ij began to-day in Alaska. ' | ’i'le ■ eoule-,! ani s are do.; train-. i They are carrying in relay- :i’«l.fKSo c units of anti-toxin over ;0 ; t miles o! | snow-covered country to Nome,, where i a diplheria epidemic is raging. t The town has only one doctor and; a is without serum. The linmher oi j * deaths is increasing daily. The first | f team expect to reach Xeuana to-mor- j row Thence a iiv.-h team "ill carry j !■ till! medicine in one rush ni miles j < •to Tfilovana Sum, ce —ive teams fib- | . low the Ttiman liner to the Yukon! ;■ River on lo Nuiario. I Ley limn cut : across Xorlon Ray ami pro,- d • r- ; % land to Nome. j ■: The I ’nited States Health Service i 1 shipping I.OHO.ODD nwirc units <ui Saiur ; ,l ; ,v iinni Seattle. with instructions k 1 hat they are to he forwarded, r, XoiM: 1 if possible by aeroplane. ■ ROMAN' CK.MKTKiiY. t 1 LONDON. Lehruary fl. f Thirty skeletons have 1 n lotiml ai ' v. hat i- believed to no one of I h*’ hie-gc-t Roman ccincl rms in this mini- « try. discovered ai Ospriitge. near \ l'’iatersham. Kent. Ih" excavation- j arc la in.; iir.lertid.cn by William j Whiling, of O cringe, ami :1m Society _ been in progress a Ice dry-. j Sign- that Roman remains were j prcsaul \\c;e found two year- ago. hut j it was not tlii'ti possible in excavate. • The (ield has imv. been iillt ai Om til • posal of li:r Society of A ntipua rios. Sixty pie, =■ - of poliorv. some m an excel leu t State of preservation. were among tlm things recovered on :~atur- ' Most of the things loiim! hav • li-vn | about 11 1 roe feel below tlm surlto e. j I