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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1926, Page 2

! hi* Hokitika Mental Hospital has vacaucv for a second cook.

The a a linn I picnic for I lie patients ip the Hokitika - .Mental Hospital takes place on Monday, 18th January, and donation's in cash or kind, will be very thankfully received by the Alediea' .Superintendent.

Air .1. Alexander, West Coast Inspector of Afacbincry. lias boon transferred to Auckland, and expects Lc leave next week. His position is being filled by Air E. Brown, of Wellington.

“It’s like this, your Worship: I had gastritis and the doctor told me t< take whisky and castor oil. I couldn't got the oil. so I took the whisky.” That was the excuse for drunkenness which a first offender made to Mr 11. V. Widdowson. S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch on Wednesday “You stick to the doctor's orders in future,” said the Magistrate, when he fined the defendant 10s, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment.

Tho Wellington municipal milk depot sold £1375 worth of cream in Christmas week, eaten mostly to the accompaniment of Auckland strawberries, which soared in price from Is 8d to 3s 3d a punnet on Christmas Eve. The cream was extracted from 13,750 gallons of milk, equal to a lull city milk supply for three and a half days. The municipal depot is soon to market Devonshire clotted cream. A further enterprise planned is the production of cottage cheese. When the last mail left South Australia, Mr Wilton Power, an actor well-known in New Zealand, was lying in the Port Pirie Hospital .suffering from the effects of a revolver hullet. He was performing in “Little Nellie Kelly” with the Lionel Walsh Company, in which lie has to he shot at by one of the other characters. On this night the revolver went off as usual, hut Mr Power was found to have been wounded. At first it was thought to he the wad from the cartridge only which had inflicted the wound, hut an X-ray examination showed the presence of a bullet an inch and a-lialf deep in the flesh. One of the cartridges with which the >evolver was charged had been left ntact, instead of. as is usual, having the hullet removed. Three days fter the accident Mr Power was on .lie high road to recovery, and said there would he nothing to prevent him cppearing with the company in Perth -ii Christmas.

At an early hour on Wednesday morning a couple of elephants from a visiting circus managed to free themselves, and proceeded to explore Christchurch in the vicinity of the railway station. They crossed Moorhouse Avenue to some green trees, off' which they breakfasted, and then looked for an entrance to the station. They tried the Madras Street overhead bridge, but, finding the steps unable to carry their weight, they decided oil the alternative of breaking down a Oft wood and iron fence at the east end of the station. Here they entered to the extreme surprise and alarm of the night porter, who. without any hesitation, left the premises by a roundabout wav and informed their

keeper of the visitation. This experienced man removed his elephants with little bother, and, after a slight altercation in the middle oi' the street, they went slowly back to their huge tent, and have probably forgotten their little escapade, but tbe night porter has not.

Sawmilling Machinery: Hush Locomotives, Steam Saw Feeds, steam Cross Cut Saws, Logging Blocks, limber Jacks, etc., from R. P. M. Manning and Co., 5 Bedford How, Christchurch, representing A. and G. Price, Lid., Thames.—Advt.

Have you seen the beautiful carpets, squares, runners, hearth rugs, door mats, and linoleums now offering at special cut prices for cash this Christmas season at Schroder and Co. It will pay you to visit Schroder's.—Advt.

Messrs M. Houston and Co will sell by auction at Arahura yards oil Monday next the pacing gelding Tracey Boy and the pacer Bush. King.

The weather, which has been gloriously fine for the past week changed during the night and a light rain fell which cooled the air, and will do the gardens much good.

The body of a young man James Gilbert Findlay, who some weeks ago was drowned in the Buller river, has been found at Kongnhu, near Kara-

A Wellington correspondent says it is not expected that a fixture tor hearing the Lyttelton election petition will be made until the Judges’ vacation lias been completed, towards tho end of January.

Mr AY. IT. Stopforth, gents’ out. fitter. Itevell St., announces, in another column, great reductions in fancy half-hose and knitted and wideend ties.

Mr Justice Hosking is expected to open the sittings of the Woolston Tanneries Commission in Wellington oil January 25. It is probable that’the whole of the evidence will be taken in Wellington.

.Messrs W. 11. Sherman, W. Wilson, H. A. Thompson and D. Stevenson who represent the Hokitika Bowling Club at the New Zealand Bowling Tournament at Dunedin which commences on Monday next, leave by to-morrow morning’s train for Dunedin.

All the returns from the further ballot on the five days per week policy. which was taken bv the miners as a result of the strong representations of the coal Owners' Association, are nmv in hand. They disclose a majority in favour of continuing the five days’ policy.

The totalisatoi* returns for Boxing Day indicate that there is a little louse change .lying about (remarks the Auckland “Star”). There were eight race meetings last Saturday week, including trotting. At the eight meetings the* money put through, the totalisatoi* amounted to £321.2G9, made up as follows: Auckland Racing C lub, £145,9(5!) 10s: Manawatu, £57.79,j; Taranaki, £30,564 10s: Dunedin. £35,182; Westland. £8508; South Wnirarnpa Trotting Club. £8217 ; Gore. £10.380: Ashburton, £21.017.

Mr James Delvin, an old and respected resident of Brunner, passed away yesterday at the. Grey River Hospital. Deceased, who was a native of County Down. Ireland had only been a week at the-Hospital, but had previously been for some time in failing health. He was formerly engaged in the mining industry, but also participated in various forms of pioneering work, and had resided for thirty-five years at Brunner. Predeceased by bis wife seven years ago, the late Mr Devlin is survived by three sous and four daughters.

Tin* recent cruise of the United States Navy to Australia and New Zealand is now being featured as an attraction to draw volunteers to the navy, posters showing views of the life in the* Southern Hemisphere being displayed in various American cities, writes a New York correspondent. One* of I lie c* conspicuous in Now York bears the title, “The Metropolis of Sidney." Possibly the* mis-spelling might lie ! "•given even in a poster licit stresses the advantages of travel as an education were it not for the fact that the view is not one of Sydney at all (states the New Zealand Herald). It was taken from the Wellesley Street Library tower in Auckland. and shows the junction of Queen and Wellesley streets, with St. /Matthew’s Church in the background. The error was the subject of comment in several New York newspapers. Shake hands with your grocers every time von purchase a seven weeks’ supply of “ No-Rubbing Laundry Help” as a token of your esteem and gratitude for “ No-Rubbing.’’— Advt. Ladies’ Holiday and Picnic Dresses ill checked and striped zephyr, special value, 4s lid and 0s lid. Ladies’ and Children’s Pandan and Rush Hats, 2s lid. Children’s Washing Dresses, 3s lid. Rubber Bathing Caps. Is Od and 4s lid. McGruers, Hokitika and Greymouth.—Advt.

■Men’s Fancy Shirts, with collars to match Os 6d to 14s 6d at Hallensteins, Revell Street.—Advt.

Polish your floors with “ Tan-ol lighter work and a better, brightei polish. Also good for furniture, tills boots and leather goods.—Advt. Start the day right !■ Polish your shoes with Tan-01, the popular shine for tan footwear, leather goods and furniture.—Advt.

Orders are whirling in at a great rate for “ No-Rubbing Laundry Help.” A Is packet does seven washings heautifullv.—Advt.

Buy our travelling rugs, kit bags, suit eases, etc! The prices are right, and we allow you one shilling in the pound for cash. IV. H. Stoplorth’s Revpll Street.—Advt.