LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1928, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

Peerless Pictures will he screening at Woodstock to-night (Thursday) and Kokatahi on Friday. An Exceptional Master Picture will he screened enticed “White Flannels,” featuring Jayson Robard and Virginia Brown Faire. Also Fables and Gazette. —Advt.

Mr Samuel Ernest McCarthy, solicitor, and formerly stipendiary magistrate, died last evening at Christchurch. Mr McCarthy had been in vigorous health until quite recently, when he became ill and entered a private hospital for an operation. He had been magistrate at Clyde, Invercargill, ' Napier, Wellington, and Christchurch, retiring from the bench on a pension four years ago.

The central fire hell sounded an alarm about 9.15 o’clock last evening at Greymouth when an incipient fire was discovered in the sawmill of Messrs Stratford and Blair in Gresson Street, opposite the railway goodsheds. When noticed, the flames were running up tho wall in the nor’-east corner of tho mill building, where there is an aperture through which boards are taken from the planing machine. The indications were that the fire must have been carried from outside. The Fire Brigade on arrival put out the flames speedily, and cutting through a sliding door, ascertained that there was no further danger,