LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1928, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Owing to floods Dalgety and Co’s auction sole for to-morrow on behalf of .Messrs Gibb Bros at Waiho Gorge, lias been further postponed until a future date.

The barometer lias been steadily falling to-day and at 2.A0 pun. was 20.1. There- is a prospect of the rough weather being experienced on the Fust Coast coming this way.

When a man is sentemed to reformative detention it is only different from a sentence of hard labour in one particular—that is. lie wears a different coloured shirt." said the Rev. Charles Chandler, prison worker of Auckland, in an address to Hamilton Rotary Club recently.

Clay pigeons were regularly being shattered into (small pieces by the guns of crack shots at the Alethvcn Gun Club on a recent Saturday (says the Christchurch “Sun"). The noise of the shooting was loud and long. I nknowii to the experts, a hare terrified almost out of its life, wa.s .squatting in the grass only two or three yards from them for most of the ‘‘shoot. There was a lull as the men reloaded, and the hare considered that the time for his departure was ripe. He made off. and six of the club's best shots let go their first .barrel at him. Not a single pellet got home ! Six second barrels wen- loosened, six expert “gunoven" hid their heads in shame and a hare, quite unhurt, scampered awav surely wondering why he had been so frightened.