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Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1931, Page 4

All seasonable bedding plants now ready at YnrmMl’s. Locally grown, strong and hardy. 1/6 dozen. —Advt

After an absence of some years some teal duck have made their appearance in the lagoon at the entrance to Mahinapua Creek. The birds are very tame. The birds are protected and any. one shooting them aire liaolei to a heavy penalty.'

Come and see IVatty the left handed billiard player in action at the Elite Billiard Saloon, Revel! St.—Advt.

Following two days torrential rains that have fallen in the back country at Reefton, all the rivers were running high. The newly-constructed suspension bridge across the Jnangahua River at Watts’s farm was washed away and very little material from it will be salvaged. The flood in the Marina River washed away the approach to Williscroft’s bridge. This will necessitate traffic fording the river until repairs are effected, but unfortunately there is no stable ford in this locality and care will need to be taken by travellers when negotiating the river.

A resident of Auckland last week received a business letter from England stating: “We have, pleasure in enclosing banker’s draft, etc.” The sum expected was £25. Two items in the enclosed statement, however, provided an unpleasant surprise. They were: “Less commission, £2 10s,” and “Less British income tax at 4s 6d in the pound, £5 Ts 4d.” All that was left of the £25 was £l7 8s 9d. The - recipient of the letter resigned himself to the fact that, after all, £l7 is better tlmn nothing—until he searched the envelope and found that the sender had forgotten to enclose the draft. One hundred and five prizes in the Cancer Fund Art Union £4OOO. Tickets 2s 6d, 9 for £l, closing 17th.—Advt. Addisons have opened up a smart range of ladies tweed coats, also a new assortment of ladies frocks, millinery and neckwear. —Advt. We are now opening out new season’s millinery. Schroder and Co.— Advt. Dainty neckwear for ail .occasions. A choice selection of collars and jabots denoting the'present trend of fashion also the latest in pleated dress bows. Now being displayed at McKays.—Advt

Entries lor the Grey stock sale on Monday are. notified in this issue.

Make your selection now from large displays of glassware including salads, sugar, and sweet dishes at Yairail’s Novelty Depot.— Advt.

Til a Kanieri Tennis Club will open the season to morrow (Saturday) afternoon. A heai ty invitation is extended to all.

Keep- next Thursday night free. Look what is in store for you! Come and see the 4 year-old baby of the Gym. Club tumbling. Don’t miss the Clubswinging, hoops and dump-bells, whatever you do! The ballets are out on their own, and the prices are very reasonable tor such a display.

The death took place at Westport on Monday, of Mrs Elizabeth Stannard. Deceased who was 92 years of age, was a native of Sydney and had spent between 65 and 75 years in the Dominion.. For many years, Mr and Mrs Stannard were proprietors of the Royal Hotel, which Mrs Stannard disposed of on the death of her husband, and then retired into private life. She had no family, but is survived by some nieces.

Half-a-crown for an Automobile. Get a ticket in Cancer Fund Art Union. First Prize £2OOO, closes 17th, 0. Borton local canvasser.—Advt, An unusual sight was seen oil urn Ocean Bench, near Dunedin, when millions of mutton birds flew close inshore just tibovg the surface of the water. As a rule the birds pass tue beach some considerable distance offshore, but it seemed on this occasion as if they were driving a shoal of small fish inshore for a feast in the shallow water. They seemed to work systemati. cally from Lawyer’s Head to St. Clair, the huge army of birds moving in orderly formation, like an army ,at manoeuvres. Just opened large stocks of Royal Albert cups, saucers and plates, new designs and shapes, prices from 4/-. Also Royal Albert tea-sets, prices from 30/- at Yarrell’s Novelty Depot.—CAdvt Complaints concerning the Is 3d stamps at present in use which were made and published in the “New Zealand Stamp ICollector” have been considered by the department. The Prime Minister, Rt. 'Hon. (f. i\Y. Forbes, has replied stating that it is realised that the stamp is unsatisfactory, says the latest issue of the journal. As soon as the stocks of the present issue are exhausted, a printing wifi be made in a deeper colour. The colour of the present issue was described as ‘‘unr:pe lemon.’’ Patrons arc notified that cream may now be purchased as usual in any quantity at the Westland Dairy Factory.—Advt.

Thieves who broke into Robinson’s Bunvood Stores, Christchurch, while the owner tied his wife wore absent from their tut joining home on Tuesday rdght, stoic tobacco and cigarette to the value of £4O. Entry was gained to the house through a fanlight over a back window. Money in the store till was not taken, the burglars being satisfied to remove the whole of the tobacco stock, as lias been the procedure in several other similar burglaries recentlv.

The wedding took place at St. John s Presbyterian Church. Greymouth, yesterday,. of Martha, third daughter of the late Mr and Mrs J. Harrington, Blnketown, to Mr Alex. Gemtnell. oi Heatheoto Valley, Christchurch. Rev.

H. R. Fell, officiated. The bride, who was (riven away by her brother, Mr R. Harrington, was attended by her sister, Miss May Harrington, as'bridesmaid. Mr P. Harrington was best man. Alter the ceremony, a reception was held at the bride’s former residence, Blaketown, where the guests were received by Mrs Goad, of Kumara, aunt of the bride. Mr and Mrs Gemmell left for Christchurch bv the morning’s express.

The Canterbury. Education Boa/rd has found it necessary to forward the following memorandum to school committees : —“Judging from the number of letters coming to hand without postage, or with insufficient postage, it is apparently necessary to remind teachers that in Canterbury stamps must be affixed to all articles sent to the board through the post. It is recognised that country teachers, who frequently are also compelled to rein a rural delivery box, are at a disadvantage in this respect, but until the Board or Department agrees to meev the cost of postage—a somewhat remote contingency at present—l regret to have to ask that the above rule should be complied with/*

This week’s special parcel at the Economical Crockery Shop contains 1 enamel pie plate, 1 sugar basin, 1 fancy butter saucer, 1 glass tumbler, 1. clothes brush, 1 tin floor polish. All for 2s 3d at the Economical Crockery Shop. P. Stephens, proprietress.— Advt. Colds often result of constipation. Prevented by eating Yeaston Tablets. V/. E. Williams. Chemist.—Advt. ’ The latest in dress lengths can now be procured at McKays, including the new coin spot shantung, celanese and voiles. —Advt. “Beauty hat comts from health has a gentle quality.” Pimples and coarse skin ar« caused by indigestion. To restore the skin to hs original fresh beauty take X-AN Mixture three times daily. W. Chemist.— Advt

Next Sunday being the third of the mourn tim usual afternoon s.rviw will be held in the Kokatahi Presbyterian Church. Arriving next week, at the “Hcartsnse”. Floral Studio, Hamilton Street, antirrhinums, salvia bonfire, hlox, cosmos, carnations, delphiniums, geums, sweet peas, calendulas, asters, pansies, verbenas, nemesias, lobelias, daphne trees, wistaria (mauve). Cabbage, cauliflower, and letture plants. Only the best stocked. Order now.—Aclvt.

Sincere apologies to those who were disappointed in failing to secure their requirements from “Heartsease” from the last stock of bedding out plants. Don’t miss this time. -Booking cash orders now.—Advt.

One look at “Heartsease” bedding out plants, will convince you that the grower of same is a “tradesman” in nursery work. Only well hardened plants sent- to Hokitika, and from u climate very similar to this.—Advt.

The sale of tickets for the Caracer Fund Art. Union closes -tomorrow (Saturday) night, so that all who desire to secure tickets should secure them without delay from the local distributors or Mr C. Rose, Mackay St., Greymouth, district agent.

Throughout Monday and all day on Tuesday a huge gorse fire raged in the Rakaia Riverbed, the reflection at night being visible for a distance of over twenty miles. No damage lias been done by the fire, which was extinguished before travelling down to the Rakaia Huts.

A meeting of ladies was held at tho Town Hall yesterday afternoon, upwards of twenty being present, when it was decided to form a Croquet Club. A discussion took place' as to a site for the green, and ultimately Mesdames .Saywell, Parkhill, Paterson and Conning were appointed to make enquiries as to a suitable location and the cost of same and to report to another meeting to be held a week later.

In a report to the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr A. Hamilton), the ranger of the Gouland Downs Sanctuary (Air R. E. Clouston), 1 in the Nelson district, says that now that the. beautiful kowhai trees in the -sanctuary are showing a wealth of bloom there can be seen daily dozens of tills flitting from tree to tree taking the nectar from the blossoms. It is, lie says, a. pretty sight to see the trees, and the tuis in high revel amongst them. The weka, the report states, has increased remarkably in numbers, the birds having been seen everywhere in the sanctuary with broods of young ones, some of which are nearly halfgrown. It is the mating season for the kiwi, end the ranger states, that the bird’s loud calls at night time can lie heard throughout the district,

Prices for fat cattle niid fat sheep suffered' a decline at the Metropolitan Market at Addington on Wednesday, duo in the main to much larger ynrdings than had been the case in the two preceding weeks. The entry of cattle, totalled 370 head, compared with 339 last week, and prices receded by about- £1 a head in the case of steers and from £1 to £1 10s in tho

case of cows. Good heifer beef also bad to share in the fall in values. The overflow from the fat sheep yarning oi .3660 head, compared with 3000 last, week had to be accommodated in the store pens. Butchers’ ivo.'-ii ements were more than met. and indifferent, quality was not sought after keenly. The decline over the whole of the sale was of from 2s 6d to 3s 6d a head for

sheep in tile wool, and to a lesser extent for shorn. Spring lambs, of which there was a yarding larger than ae the previous sale, showed no quotable change in price. Vealers held to last week’s rates. There was a slightly weaker demand for pork.

Following a report that the dreaded cattle tick had been found in Taranaki: on a kiwi, Mr W. Harris, Government stock inspector, lias inspected a number of dairy herds in the Te Popo district, and lias found them free from the cattle tick. Mr E. Halcombe, of Urenui, said that a species of tick was invariably found on the kiwi. In 1886 when his mother sent two kiwis to England for the zoo, Sir Joseph Hooker and Sir William Owen, leading naturalists of that day, wrote, thanking Mi's Halcombe for her gift, saying that both kiwis were infected with a. tick similar to the English cattle species, but not the same. Mr Halcombe said that his family often sent kiwis away, and when caught they were always infested with these ticks. He had no doubt that the kiwi caught at Te Popo was infested with the same sort of tick.

New stocks of white dinner ware just opened up at the Economical Crockery Shop. Dinner plates, breakfast plates, bread and butter plates, coupe' plates, breakfast cups at lowest prices. Economical Crockery Shop. P. Stephens, pro pr iet r ess. —A d vt.

For that irritating flatulence aftei eating, try X-AN Mixture, X-AN fresh ens up the stomach glands, multiplies the digestive juices, purifies the blood and restores the muscular action te the intestines tuns ensuring proper elimination. W_ E. Williams, Chem ist.—Advt. Don’t be caught napping by a sudden change in weather. Keep “Nazol” the scientific remedy ever bandy. New double size contains 120 full doses for 2s 6d. —Advt. Preserve eggs the clean and economical wav—use Sharland’s “Moa” Brand Egg Preservative. Does not affect the flavour eitheu. One bottle does 20 dozen.—. Advt.