LATE LOCALS.
ATessrs Al. Houston and Co. notify the sale liv auction in the mart to-mor-row at 2.30 p.m., 30 sacks of new (iotatoes. Airs U. Cropper, of Arahura. notifies in this issue that she will commence a milk rim, supplying milk in Hokitika from Ist. February. Orders left with Air A. Parkhill, grocer, will receive prompt attention.
A sad drowning accident occurred early yesterday afteriion in the lutuigalma River, the victim of which was a girl, aged 12 years; named Ella Cecily Sinclair, the daughter of .Mr John Sinclair. a sawmill worker, of iuangahua Landing. It appeals that she was attending a picnic ill the vicinity of the Landing, and. the day being exceedingly hot. the girl, along with a companion named Hannah, went into the river bathing. Both of them, however, were swept off their feet hv the current, and the girl Hannah was carried downstream some three hundred vards. when a rescue was in her case effected. The other girl, however, disappeared in the stream, and wan drowned. About 4 p.m. the body of the girl Sinclair was discovered in the stream not far from where she went in.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1927, Page 3
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192LATE LOCALS. Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1927, Page 3
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