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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 February 1920, Page 5

A local housewife seeks to balance the high cost of living by making what js_known as ‘‘billif tea,” that is by dropping the leaves into the boiling water while on the fire. About onethird, of the quantity is saved, and, as with the bushman, the result is pleasing*to the palate. A Palmerston citizen who has some j knowledge of the principles of wireless telegraphy, and more than a passing j acquaintance, with Marconi’s writings, | says : “The statement attributed to j him in last week’s Press Association j telegram, is probably a hoax. Marconi, i is too deep a student to emulate the • canards of New Zealand’s erratic ■ weather prophet and sun-spot expert.” . A minor tragedy witnessed in Pal-/ merston North occurred in the Court-, house the other day. A muffled report/ was heard by a few in one corner of (he court, and presently one of the waiting jurors who had made thoughtful provision for a long and thirsty day, slid quietly out, and sadly divested' himself of a broken bottle which had burst in his pocket. | ...There are at present eight families in, occupation of the Central Hotel under the Mayor of Masterton’s housing scheme. Each family has a number of children, and the building is fully ocupied. The boxing saloon, for which also Mr. Jackson negotiated, is in. full ‘occupation, and the scheme has been fully successful, ■ and - has contributed to easing- the housing situation jin Masterton. ■■Pit • ■ , ;/■ /The long-suffering public is about to have .another shortage thrust upon if .’(says. a Gisborne telegram to , the /Auckland .Herald), This time it- is saqsage skins. A“reporter learned that the local butchers were all very short necessary article of their business, and that the* prospect of supplies was somewhat remote. This state of affairs‘had been brought about by; one him • .’effecting a corner in the supplies.; , i i. The'charge of,murder arising out of th.e death of Arthur John Horton, who was- killed at Penrose, Auckland,;, on January, 26, as the result of a collision with a motor-car, was heard /before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at Auckland, yesterday, Svheri Alfred Thoijras Ifercy. Hare,/aged 23, a carrier by occupation,''who had been arrested in/the Nerth Auckland district, was accused thgt he drove the motor concerned inllie collision. He was also charged that qjp.the :same, day he unlawfully’--con-verted ■ to;his own- use a l -motor-car belonging to, Arthur E. Patterson;’ and fhat he. damaged the car to the extent Ofs £44. Dare pleaded not guilty,' and Was committed for trial. •t;" Year : after year brings increasing nroof of the superioril- of Sharland’a linking Costs less than others —worth-more!—Advt.