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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1932, Page 4

Two hams for ladies s and two for gents are the prizes for compotiton at the euchre in the Soldiers’ Hall ‘tonight.

There was a numerous attendance on Sunday at die funeral of the lata Mrs Isabella Kernick, at Blackin''. Rev GI-. Barker conduetd the services at Hie residence a nd gravside.

Grand ’Xmas Eitchre, Soldiers’ Hall, Tuesday, November Bth., at 8 o’clock. Ist. prize, ladies, ’Xmas ham, 2nd. prize, ladies, ’Xmas ham; Ist. prize, gents, ’Xmas ham, 2nd. nrize, gents, ’Xmas ham. Admission 2s.—Advt. s

There were, several short breaks in the Greymouth electrical supply last evening shortly before 7.15 o’clock. The cause proved to be a stick thrown, across the 11,000 volt feeders at the corner of Alexander and Thompson Streets, by some mischievous children.

Tennents’ advise that their registered optician, Mr John Mann, will be in attendance at their Hokitika branch on Thursday next, and may be consulted on all your eye troubles. Make your appointment now.—Advt.

At a meeting of the Greymouth Chamber .of Commerce last week, the chairman (Mr* J. McLean) in voicing a protest against heavy charges by the Railway Department stated that his .firm could get goods more cheaply carried to lleeftcn, by landing them at Westport and sending them by road then by landing them at Greymouth and paying the heavy railway charge of* 5s lid per ton for all goods coming over thd Greymouth wharf.

Statistics show that deaths from drowning still head the list of casualties in New Zealand, stated a report presented at the annual meeting of the Auckland Swimming Centre by the schools educational officer, Mr C. F. Stratford. That was an indication of what educational swimming work had yet been unable to accomplish, and only by the pursuance •A >a positive policy could it be hoped to provide a brighter picture on the other side.

As a sequel to the attack made on Constable Neary, at the Waiuta Police Station on Friday night, through which he received a broken leg,, Thomas Turner was brought before Mr T. 11. Lee, J.P., at lleefton, on Saturday', and was charged with drunkenness, and assaulting Constable Neary, so as to cause actual bodily harm. -On the charge of drunkenness, Turner was convicted and discharged. On the'Second charge, he was remanded to appear at the Reef ton Court, on November 16. Bail w*as fixed at £SO, and two sureties of £25 each. Constable Neary’s condition is satisfactory.

Justices who presided at the sitting Of the Pukekohe 1 ‘ Magistrate’s Court recently in the absence of the Magistrate were husband and wife, Mr and Mrs F. Perkins. When the Court opened, Mr F. Husking, on behalf of the Rhr, congratulated the justices on their jointly accepting the tall to the Bench. Ho said he believed the occasion was the first of its kind in the Auckland province, and that only once previously in New Zealand had husband and wife appeared on the Bench together. That was in Hawke’s . Bay some years ago. Mrs Perkins had, not previously presided at a Court sitting, and the occasion was also the first on which a woman justice had appeared on the Bench at Pukekohe.

A joke played on the public and the authorities of the Auckland Museum by a. boy who, later in life, was to become president of the museum council, was described a few days ago by Dr E. Robertson, a paste president and a member of the council , from 1997 to 1902. In the course of an address at the museum . anniversary gathering, Dr Robertson said that when he was a schoolboy he went with a friend to inspect- the exhibits in the old museum building in Princes street. They were both disappointed to find that there were no relics of Captain Cook on view. The matter seemed to call for action and they decided to rectify the omission. Searching their pockets, they founa an old knife and a piece of leather. On the leather they Contrived to. place the inscription, “Captain Cook’s knife,” and then affixed the leather *to the knife and left it on a table. Three or four days later they were delighted to read in the newspaper an indignant? letter taking the museum authorities to task for being so careless as to leave a Captain Cook relic lying about. Presumably the knife took a speedy passage to the destructor.

Public preference has proved the effectiveness of Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion for remedying coughs and Isolds and all such kindred ailments.. Try it your self next time. Extremely pleasant to take. Sold everywhere. Is 6d, 2s 6d, and 4s 6d —Advt.

Messrs Griff en and Smith, Revel I Street notary a free gilt offer of three paint brushes with every live 4 gallons of crescent mixed paint, tho very best on the market.

Prohibition of tho issue of money orders and the transmission of postal correspondence in New Zealand for Miss A. Colette, Petersham, New .iddth Wales, is announced in the Gazette on the grounds that she is engaged in conducting a lottery.

To-night at 8 o’clock at the Princess Theatre the very successful opera “Merrie England” will be repeated by tlu Hoiviiniia Operatic Society, in aid of the fuads of the Fire Brigade. A bulge number, of tickets haye, ( been disypiL {in’d a large attendance is looked M flbjjjyard- to. The opera is a very enjoyable one, and the presentation should again be very successful.

This a true story (states the “South, land News”). Not very many days ago an Invercargill householder found that his wheelbarrow had been surreptitiously removed. Now this wheelbarrow had a squeak. In the early hours of the following morning the dispossessed owner heard a familiar sqeak-squeak, and got up to make enquiries. He saw bis own wheelbarrow being used to cart his own coal from his own shed to that of his next-door neighbour. What happened then is so pleasant tci/ imagine that it is better left undescribed.

The Fire Brigade demonstration on Coss Square on Saturday next will be participated in by all the Brigades on' the West Coast. This annual gathering which is taking place at Hokitika this year is always a very well contested one, and serves to show the capabilities' of the men who give their services to the community against that great danger—fire. The demonstration will begin in the morning at 10 o’clock and will be continued in the atfernooii, a charge of one shilling being made for admission to Cass Square.** The evening before (Friday) the visiting firemen will, be entertained at a ball in the Soldiers’ Hall for which the Happiness Boys will provide the music.

An Oldsmobile six-cylinder sedan car, the property of Mr Renie Howarth, of Blackball, was stolen from tho parking place in Lord Street, in front of the Greymouth Opera House on Sunday night, between- 8.30 and 10.15 o’clock during its owner’s absence at the pictures. It was discovered extensively damaged' by fire, in the Grey County Council’s gravel,pit on the Boddytown Saddle, four and a-half miles from Greymouth, on the old Marsden Road yesterday morning. The car, which was a 1929 model, was valued at £2OO. When found under .the chutes in the gravel pit the headlights and front mudguards'showed signs of damage, evidently caused when the car was driven into the pit. Efforts! had apparently been made-to gat ( it out again, but without success, and the miscreant, or faigerennts, had their placed petrol-soaked wood underneath the car and burnt it.. In addition, the spare wheels and other detachable articles of value were found missing.

A remarkable example of what can be achieved in the taming of some of our bird life is) instanced in the case of a male blackbird which has made friends with one of our local residents, Mr C. Hartshorne. The bird in question has made a practice for the last three years of entering the hub and with the utmost confidence hopping on to the table and selecting choice morsels or food. He is particularly fond of crumbs of bread, preferably with butter and jf the opportunity' occurs will select butter “staight.” On one occasion while Mr Hartshorne w'as absent from the hut for a few moments the bird ate nearly all the butter on the table, and then wiped his beak on the table cloth. Yesterday, while a visiter was present, “Peter,” as he has been Hastened, brought in three of his young family and fed them all on the floor of the hut. He has new sufficient confidence to hop on to Mr Hartshcrne’s hand and gaze up at him in a most inquiring manner. Peter has several “hangers on”, in the shape of a chaffinch and sparrow, who. while keeping at a safe distance, will partake of the crumbs that Peter sometimes throws to them. Peter has now firmly' established himself as an honoured member of the household and woe betide any stray cat that makes its appearance near the place.