LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1929, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

Messrs M. Houston and Co. notify a special entry of store cattle at Arahura on Monday at 2 p.m. The annual meeting of the "Westland Trotting Club will he held on Monday evening at 8 o’clock at the Club Rooms, Hamilton Street. To-morrow (Saturday) and Monday are the two last days on which tickets are • procurable in the big “Aero Club’s Art Union of £4OOO. Tickets 2s 6d each or book of 9 for £1 at A. H. Lawn’s Revell St.—Advt. The Medical Superintendent of Grey Hospital submitted the following report for the month of September:—• Patients in at beginning of month: Hospital, males 46, females 27; Old People’s Home, males 36, females 5. Patients admitted during month: Hospital, males 55, females 27; O.P.H. males 1, females 3. Patients discharged during month: Hospital, males 47, females 24. Patients died during month: Hospital, males 5, females 3. Patients remaining in at end of month: Hospitoil, males 49, females 27; O.P.H. males 36, females 8.

A peculiar accident happened to a horse owned by Mr E. Loughnan on Thursday night. It appears that the horse and a cow were grazing in the same paddock, and It is surmised that the horse must have been grazing right over the cow’s head, and the latter becoming frightened jumped up and got its horns affixed between the horse’s front legs, tearing an immense semicircular wound of about eight or nine inches. Mr H. T. Crumpton’s services were called into requisition, and he had had to put no less than eight stitches into the wound to close it.—lnangahua Times.

Tuesday’s “>DomiWion” stated:— Ten benzine oi* kerosene tins of whitebait, arrived from Westport yesterday afternoon for the Wellington market.. but 75s a tin was the highest bid when nut up for auction, the bidders being ma'inlv those men who hawk them round the city. The bid was not accepted, the auctioned saying that 90s was the price, so the would-be ’’buyers went away ' disappointed. They are in short supply, and there is a big enough demand ir the hotels and restaurants to take ah that are coming to hand at the moment. A few whitebait are obtained from the Hutt River, and also from Otaki, but in such small quantities (a few pints) that they do not affect the market.

Wliat ! A winter suit in October ’ Tut ! Tut ! This will never do! Don’t shame the birds and blossoms—get into a spring Sincerity to-day. It’s a smarter, brighter suit, a suit in keeping with the spirit of spring, also “ Built for Service.” Addisons, ’phone 89 Advt.

You can preserve 20 dozen eggs wit! one bottle of Sharland’s “ Moa ” Brand Egg Preservative—less than a penny a dozen.—Advt.