NIGHTCAPS NOTES.

Western Star, 6 April 1920, Page 2

NIGHTCAPS NOTES.

(Own Correspondent.)

The railway booking Item here was heavy for the Easter holidays—Friday 118, Saturday 137, Monday 126, A low residents took advantage of the special train from Invercargill to the Labes on Saturday, motoring to Centre Bush to join the train. Among those who visited Queenstown were Mr and Mrs R. Donnelly, Wairio, Mr and Mrs Irwin, Mrs j. B. Purdue,

Mr and Mrs Mm. Barclay have gone jo Dunedin for their annual holidays. The quiet of the township was dig-; turbed last Monday evening by the ■ arrest by the local police officer of i Hebert Ross for alleged breaking and entering and stealing from the liquor' store of the Railway Hotel several bottles of whisky. On Tuesday the] prisoner wag brought before. MesW;l J . Ritchie and Jas. Grant, senr., *1 J.P.’s, and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, for using obscene language to the police when arrested!. The charge of steal-] nig will he heard later. 8 The Medical Association of this dis-| trict has under consideration an in-| quiry as to the particulars of the? position of a medical officer for thel township from a probable doctor. A 1! meeting was called during the week] to consider the matter in all it bearings, and a visit to the district! by the medical man concerned is probable at am early date. The report of our footballers from ivaitangata is that they lost in soccer and had a draw in rugby with the ivaitaugata footballers,