LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1932, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

Equally nice to give or receive are the Xmas gifts now on display at Addisons. It is not too early to buy or reserve now. Inspection invited.—Advt.

Still - another dainty dish has been devised, and this time by accident. It is recorded that in the bustle of.preparing the dinner in a well known hostelry, the assistant when iputting a shovel of coal in *the range, by mistake placed it ill .the soup pot without noticing it. When dinner was served, a patron found a piece of coal in his soup, and an enquiry revealed the mistake made. “What’s this,” was asked. “Oh!” that is Black Diamond soup!” Try it.

• An unusual incident was witnessed rt the Taradalo rifle range last week. Th e telephone dine connecting the business end of the .pange with the scorers at the targets runs very close along the line of fire,’and Shooting at th e 600 yards range, 'iPAfleman A. Dean not only recorded th e coveted “hull,” but hTs bullet a! v o cleanly cut the telephone wire, severing the communication • between the target and the shooting base. The remarkable occurrence is probably explained in the fact that there was a sag in the wire at a point near the target in lin e with the course of »the hullet. The incident at any rate caused some amusement amongst the competitors.