THE PELORUS GUARDIAN and Miners’ Advocate. FRIDAY, 4th MAY, 1917 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 34, 4 May 1917, Page 4

THE PELORUS GUARDIAN and Miners’ Advocate. FRIDAY, 4th MAY, 1917 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

AVe have pleasure in announcing to our readers that we have just installed the latest model “Intcrtypc” composing machine (supplied by Messrs Alex. Cowan and Sons, Ltd., Wellington), and the whole of the reading matter columns, apart from the supplement pages, in the present issue have been set up by the machine. The increasing labour difficulty and the constant demand for late news has compelled us to abandon the now obsolete and slow system of hand-composition in the production of newspapers. The advantages of this modern method of type composition are obvious. By the aid of the machine we shall be able to supply our readers with a greater volume of news matter, and shall be able to handle “copy” right up to the time of going to press. Later on we hope, when our operators become more proficient in the use of the machine, to produce an extra edition per week, without any increase in the subscription rates. In, the meantime wc can only ask for the continuance of the liberal support which the citizens and settlers of thiW scattered district have extended to us in the past, and wo can with confidence give promise of a still better service in the future.

At a sitting of the Canterbury Military Service Board at Motucka the other day, George William Relat, 2(>, appealed'on the ground that he was a German. In evidence he said that he was colonial-born, and looked upon himself as a British subject. His father was naturalised. His parents had corresponded with friends in Germany before the war. The chairman said there were no girunes for upholding the appeal, which would be dismissed. The authorities, however, would be notified that appellant objected to fight his countrymen.

♦Sergeant Matheson, of Dunedin, and late of Havelock, lias taken up his duties at Lambton police station in place of Sergeant O’Halloran, transferred to Daunevirke.

A monster mushroom found on a farm near Taupeka the other day measured 37 inches in circumference, and the stalk, which was about (5 inches in length, was quite a couple of inches through. It was in perfect condition. The reply by Mr T. A. H. Field, M.P., to his miner constituents at Wakamarina regarding the reasons why he supported the Military Service Act, has attracted considerable attention all over New Zealand (says the Nelson “Mail")- His concise and straight-out statement of the case for compulsory service has been much commented upon both in the press and by the people, and Mr Field has received a large number of letters from unknown people congratulating him on Ids outspokenness.

The recent beneficial rains, it is stated, has increased the supply of milk to the factories above the average for this time of the year, and the factories will probably remain open till the end of the present month. Kev, A. 11. Heron, accompanied by Mrs Heron and Miss Heron, lelt for Christchurch on Wednesday, and expects to return about the 18th inst. A sitting of the Military Medical Board was held in Havelock on Wednesday. Nine men wore examined, and three were passed as medically fit.

The pound of the hug-pipe* in town on Wednesday aroused the Highland’ ’ spirit in sonic of our citizens. Enquiries elicited the fact that a party of performers who took part in the (Scottish concert in Blenheim on the previous evening were paying the district a flying visit. The party consisted of Messrs Tom Jofferary (Wellington), Joe Simpson (Medical Camp, Palmerston North), Jack McLean (comedian, Christchurch), M. Broun (Wellington), Pipe-Major Stait, J. Murray, H. McFarland, A. McCallum, and L. Schwas (Blenheim). The visitors were kindly driven out by the last mentioned —better known as “Shaekleton” Schwas—in his commodious car. Before returning to Blenheim in the evening, the party were taken for a run up the Peloius Valley. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/b z/o t