LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1926, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

A meeting of all the senior foolbailers will be held in Kellers’ rooms r | on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, to consider the advisability ol tunning ” one senior club tor tbe district. In Nominations for the junior and third n] grade competitions ol tho "Westland Sub-Union will he received up to eight 0) p.m. on Monday next. The usual dance in the Woodstock I Hail will be held on Friday evening next. April 23rd. Good music anil good - lluor. —Advt F'or the football matches on Saturday on Cass Square tin- opening of the season, the gate receipts are being donated by the Sub-Union to Hu- lunds of the Hokitika Beautifying Associa- U tion. ,i ■ H An albino yarrow was observed m one of the Wanganui park-, the other day (reports the “Herald’’). The bird j. was pure white, and "as seen flying with its lit tlo brown brothers. Some years ago a while sparrow was reported in one of the Wanganui parks and the fact made known through the press A few days afterward- the bird was shot.. This time, however, our informant is not disclosing the locality in which the freak of nature may l.e seen. _ Some strange visitor.- frequently make an involuntary appearance in the F.sk Street I’olice Station. Inver- / cargill (says the “Southland Times”). Jtmt few stranger than one discovered O l>v a startled constable one evening. D Being a new arrival from England, he it had never before seen an opossum, and ill received quite a shock "hen, on hearing a suspicious noise in the. trees, lie flashed his electric torch and perreived a large unSuniliat- animal. Ho heat a hasty retreat and summoned assistance, when it was discovered that the strange beast was « harmless possum. How he animal came there remains a mystery. A similar diseov- ' cry was made a few years ngo hv a constable on point duty in Dee Street early one morning. On investigating 1 noises on the roof of a verandah over sl a shop he was was surprised to find a large opossum instead of the thief ho was half expecting.