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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1928, Page 2

Messrs AV. Jeffries nncl Co. draw attention to the arrival of new season’s .seed potatoes. Messrs Patterson, Michel and Co. notify new season’s seed potatoes, grass seeds etc. to hand. . On Monday next, July 23rd. Dalgety and Co. of lireymouth will offer on account of clients, 30 choice prime bullocks at the Arahura Sale Yards. Further entries solicited. At Greymouth Magistrate’s Court yesterday for selling liquor after hours the licensee of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel (Mrs A. Mclntyre) was fined £3 and costs 10s, and the licensee of the eFrry Hotel, Rapahoe, (J. T. Doyle) was fined £2 and costs. “I might have been killed,” wailed a little child when she arrived at a northern school on a recent morning. She was crying bitterly, and evidently agitated when the teacher sought the cause of her distress. “I was nearly killed,” she said between sobs. “I wanted to ride on a lorry, but the man wouldn’t stop, so I couldn’t get on; and the lorry banged into a train, and I might have been killed.” . “Anyone having a telescope will find it well worth his while to look at tiio sun just now,” said Air J. P. Artha at a meeting of the astronomical section of the Auckland Institute. ‘ Two large groups of sun spots will be central, the largest I have seen for years.” He expressed doubts whether these disturbances had had anything to do with the recent storms, although he estimated the size of the sun spots at about 80,000 miles across. They would be visible to the naked eye through a smoked glass. The Minister of Public AA'orks (Hon K. S. Wiliams) has advised Air Seddon, ALP.—‘‘ln further reply to your letter of the 23rd. March last, wherein you requested that the Copland track be cleared and improved, I have to advise that tho position concerning this matter has been looked into and it appears that the work requiring to Ire done on this track is a result of damage done by the recent heavy floods. The District Engineer, Greymouth, informs me that for the sum of £2OO this track could be placed in good order, and I have great pleasure, therefore, in advising that I have approved authorisation of this sum to enable the work to be put in hand”. Specials for this week: Fifteen only boys’ Petone navy college shorts, sizes 9 to 10, at 7s lid ; sizes 11 to 13, at 8s fid. Twelve only all wool colonial sport suits, sizes 9 to 13s at 19s fid.— Schroder and Co.—Advt. Patersons have opened up a special purchase of traveller’s samples in girls and maids’ flannel frocks, sizes up to 39in. Prices from os lid to 17s fid. Also ladies’ cardigans from 7s fid. These values -will surprise you. Call and inspect.—Advt. Thirty-six Inch Crepe De Cliene. Shades of pink, helio, blue, rose, champagne and apricot. Regular prices 4s Hd.—Realisation Sale Price 3s lid at .McKay’s.—Advt.

“Sliine on Harvest Moon,” one of the latest hits, price 4s, at Yarrall’s, Revell Street.—Advt. A meeting of the Rimu Football Club will be held in the Town Hall, Rimu, on Wednesday, Juty 18th, at 7.15 p.m. sharp. Business important.' All mem- * hers are requested to attend.—Advt. A tobacconist’s shop in Ferry road, Christchurch, owned by Mr J. Townsend, was entered last Thursday night, and £2O worth of goods taken. Entry 1 was gained by breaking a. panel in the 1 door. 1 £ Specials for this week: Ladies’ flannel frocks at 14s fid, velvet frocks at 12s 6d, new styles in repp and cliarme- ( brine at 39s (kl, 49s (Id, to 69s 6d.— Schroder and Co.—Advt. j Strange visitors to St. Andrews, in * South Canterbury, are a number of penguins that have made an appear- 1 nnce this year, during the last week, ' and their exploits have excited much '■ interest. Some of the birds have been 1 found as far as a mile from the sea, on the property of Mr L. B. Fell. The friends of Mr and Mrs Humphrey Shannon, of Christchurch, and formerly of Greymouth, will regret to hear of the death of their infant son, Janies, aged fourteen months, which occurred at Lewisham Hospital. The child had been scalded on Sunday through upsetting a teapot on a table, and the effects proved fatal. A motor car with four passengers, driven by Mr N. P. T. Carey, of 47 Fairfield avenue, was proceeding south along Colombo street, Christchurch, and when at the railway crossing was struck in tho fore part by an engine, which was being shunted on to a train. All the occupants had a lucky escape, while the front of the motorcar was completely smashed, the radiator being pushed back by the impact and the windscreen and head-lamps shattered. Mr Carey says that he saw > the crossing-keeper’s signal, but his ; brakes failed, and the car had sufficient speed on to take it to the railway line. L Latest record “ Shine on Harvest Moon”, better than “ Breeze.”—At , Yarrall’s, Revell Street. —Advt. Travelling a good deal below its maximum speed, Captain J. L. Findlay, of the Wigram Aerodrome on Friday 1 put up a new speed record for New ' Zealand, when he flow from Sockburn 1 to Timaru and back in only an hour " and a half. Moreover, he gave an exhibition of stunting-over the Timaru I beach for a quarter of an hour before c leaving on the return trip to Sockburn. II Giving the two Bristol fighters about a > quarter of an hour’s start, Captain s Findlay left the aerodrome at 2.30 p.m., - arriving with the other two machines * at Timaru at about five minutes past three. The Gloster Grebe arrived back 11 at the aerodrome at 3.50, the Bristol 3 Fighters coming in twenty minutes f later. The death occurred at Greymouth e suddenly yesterday afternoon of Mr 0 Joseph Groufsky. Deceased, who was r employed by Mr T l. Deere as a wag[T gon driver, was engaged in delivering a quantity of liny at a shed at the ? rear of G. \Y. Moss and Co., Mackav I Street, when on returning to tho lorry, lie suddenly collapsed and died. B The late Mr Groufsky was about 50 t years of ago, and for many years was a resident of Hokitika. He resided ~ with his brother, Mr Edward Grouf- . sky, in High Street, Greymouth. Ho k was a native of Hokitika, and was a member of the New Zealand Expoditionary Forces during the war. As the result of his service, his health was adversely affected. Ho leaves three brothers and three sis- [ tr, ili-o latter residing in various parts of the Dominion, while the brothers are Messrs Frank and August GroufC sky, of Hokitika, and Mr Edward s Groufskv, of Greymouth. y l_ A wide -circle of friends in all parts d of the Dominion will regret to hear d of the death in the Nelson Hospital oi the Rev. J. H. White, in his eighty f sixth year. Coming to New Zealand • s thirty-five years ago, he was employed a as a homo missionary by the Methodist ° Church, being stationed successively at. >i Cape Kgniont, Kumara, Kimbolton, PaII tea, and Brooklyn, his ministry being >f attended with conspicuous success. About nine years ago lie retired from active work, since when lie has been living with his daughter at Mapua, near Nelson, until two or three weeks s ago, when he suffered a stroke, and was removed to the hospital. Mr , White is survived by three sons, Mr , G. H. White, of the Technical College staff, Now Plymouth, Mr Sidney V White, a. well-known London artist, and v Mr H. Temple White, of Wellington ; ■- one daughter, Mrs Arnold Wells, of I- Min pun, twelve grandchildren, and one - greatgrandchild. The continuous war against insect k pests was explained to an interested s audience by Dr David Milelr, entomologist to the Cnwtliron Institute, in a lecture to members of the Auckland ° Institute. It was estimated, said Dr ') Miller—-though sheep-owners would not admit it—that 30 per cent of deaths (1 in flocks wore due to the attacks of a flies. It lias been proved that a single dead sheep had infected the country v l within a radius of ten miles. Dipping e iiad been found to he useless. But a v European parasite had been discovj ered in the Dominion and established. 0 This parasite, said Dr Miller, would bo liberated this year, and he believed that blowflies would become much less prevalent as a result. He estimated that about 29 per cent of the New Zead land pests were native in origin, 58 ® per cent had been imported from a Europe, and 9 per cent, mainly affec-t----ing timber, had been imported from 0 Australia. r Two trains, each of ten carriages, r were necessary to cope with the great rr number of excursionists who spent a 1, day at Arthur’s Pass and Otira on s Sunday. In all, 704 passengers made v the trip, and of these, 60 were from o Wellington, these availing themselves of special facilties for the excursion, arranged by the Railway Department. 11 Fine weather prevailed at the Pass. “ with that cold nip in the air winch 1 makes walking and climbing doubly pleasant. One party made a side trip I to the Bealey Glacier, branching off to e the left below Mount R-olleston. The season was not very favourable for ° such a trip, hut excitement enough was S provided when one young lady slipped J on the frozen face of a boulder and y plunged into icy water up to her neck. She had an hour’s brisk walk hack, and if managed to keep comparatively warm II until she reached the hostel where a >, change of clothes was available. She y- suffered no ill-effects and reached i- Christchurch warm and happy. A young man in the party also slipped into the river, but was not completely " submerged. it il Maclogan Raincoats to clear at 39s - 6d at Addison’s.—Advt. il Messrs Brown and Co., of the Is Hokitika Cycle Works, notify the ;o public of the surrounding district, 1. that owing to being considerably ov'er1. stocked that they intend holding a 11 clearing sale for one month of first grade Arrow cycles, built from genuine B.S.A. and Brampton fittings, at greatly reduced prices to clear. 1 Old bicycles taken as part payment. Note the address, I. Browji and Co., Hokitika,—Advt.