LATE LOCALS.
Members are notified that there will be no practice of the Municipal Band to-night.
The Hokitika Swimming Club is holding a swimming carnival at the Municipal Baths on Thursday or next week, January loth. •
At the Princess Theatre on Saturday night a visitor to Hokitka,. Dr R.os.s of Toronto, Canada, who was one of the audience of Everybody’s Pictures had the pleasure of seeing his own picture shown in the Sound Gazette. It was a scene in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and the visitor recognised himself in the picture. It was the first time he had seen the film, and had not expected to see it here. Later in the evening this portion of the film was repeated, Dr. Ross speaking briefly on the subject of the picture.
A writer in a Chrristchurch paper referring to the Burgess bushrangitm gang responsible for the murder o 7 George Dobson, a brother of Sir A. Dobson of Christchurch, says—lt is not generally known in connextion with the career of this notorous quartette that the party actually number five when operating in Hokitika. The fifth member was a runaway sailor named Taylor, but he appears to liave kept well in the background. Dobson was murdered in May. 1866. but his body was not discovered for some months alter —October, I think. In the meantime, Burgess, Levy, and Kelly had received their reward in Nelson, and Sullivan was a free man. He was qjies. tioned by the police regarding Dobson, and admitted the gang’s guilt, putting the blame for the actual murder on Taylor, who had returned to Hokitika. The latter was arrested, and tried in Hokitika in December, 1866, and was committed for trial in the following February. Sullivan had come down from Nelson to give evidence for the Crown, and was on his return in the same boat as we were as passengers from Dunedin on our way to Greymouth, in the steamer Airedale, Captain Kennedy.
An effective destroyer of worms—Wade’s Worm Figs. Pleasant to take and absolutely harmless. All chemists and stores. —Advt.
Put a lasting shine on your floors, furniture and linoleums. Use TANOL~the labour - saving, economical polish. All grocers.—Advt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1931, Page 5
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