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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4877, 14 September 1925, Page 2

Owing to a prevailing custom on the part of many business people of attaching requests for payment to accounts on which a halfpenny postage has been paid, the postmaster asks us’ (says an exchange) to intimate that any request for payment, whether written, stamped, or printed on the account, or attached or enclosed on a printed slip with .the account, subjects it to letter rate of postage.

Fifty pounds for one daffodil bulb seems almost a fairy istpry, but this is the price of a variety aptly named “Fortune.” This expensive bulb is at present flowering in the garden of that well-known grower, Mr Robert Gibson, of Manaia, who has probably the finest collection of daffodils in Australasia. Fortune is a large flower of handsome form, with a large yellow perianth and a very large cup of rich orange scarlet,- and was imported from England by Mr Gibson last year. This its the first time is has flowered in New Zealand.

A story of the ingenuity of a certain Stratford electrician is 'being told in that own. A few days ago it was necessary in the course of a particular work to put an electric wire through a narrow aperture several feet in length. How to do it was a problem, but the workman had a brilliant idea, which he put into execution with satisfactory results. He obtained a piece of meat and then tied the end of he wire .to a stray cat, after which he threw the meat through the tunnel. The cat followed and took the wire through !

When tpuheing upon the subject of church union at the jubilee celebrations (states an exchange) the Rev. W Uphill provoked a hearty laugh by telling a story at the expense of the sect known as the Plymouth Brethren. A preson once had a dream that he was in heaven. In passing along the streets of the celestial city he met. Presbyterians, Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Methodists, Salvationists, and represent,ativa®, of other sects, but was astonished at not meeting any Plymouth Brethren. Upon making inquiry from a guide he was shown an enclosure with a. high wall around it. “The Brethren are in there,” whispered the guide, as he invited the inquirer to peep through a small window. “But for goodness sake,” he-added, “don’t make a noise, because it would upset them most, awfully to find that there are members of other sects here.”

Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective of fiction, smoked strong black shag tobacco and derived Inspiration from it when puzzling over some problem of more than ordinary complexity. Shag is too full-flavoured for many.smpkens. It contains a lot of nicotine, and excess of nicotine is a bad thing,, The habitual use of such tobacco is bound sooner or later to affect the consumer injuriously. Unfortunately, practically all imported, tobaccos are heavily charged with nicotine. And in that respect they differ essentially from bur New Zealand grown tobaccos, the comparatively small amount of nicotine which constitutes one of their chief recommendations. Also—and this its important—they are all. toasted, and toasting brings out the flavour of the leaf in a most remarkable way. There are several brands of this popular tobacco. Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog label), medium; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head), full strength. Each of them has its merits. That seasoned smoker, Sherlock Holmes; would doubtlessly prefer the last-named.*