NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1356, 4 February 1915, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr Maurice Harding, of “Siberia,” Asbhurst, has disposed ot his estate to Mr Leslie M’Hardy, of Hawkes Bay. The transaction includes stock and plant, and constitutes one of the largest transactions carried out in the Manawatu for some time.

The dearness of fowl-feeed is compelling people to sell their poultry. In Christchurch over 5000 head weekly are being placed in the auction rooms, and as the fowls are nut iat the p:tctc re., iseo are poor.

A solicitor at the Magistrs' . Court at Wanganui as red a Maori man : “ What did you do with that i8 c you had wen you : “Oh, that! Why, t give bin. - te war,” replied the native, xt transpired teat the native had borrowed ti e ra t;/ make a donation to the vac

“If an apple was eat»a every morning at break L. t, f*. # people would suffer really from bad teeth,” says a well-known dentist, “It is not so much the action of the acid that makes the expedient so effective as the mere mechanical process of biting which thoroughly cleanses the teeth. This cleansing, which prevents decay by removing germ matter, cannot be effected so well by any other method, as the teeth, when biting, go right into the apple.”

A gilded sixpence, looking very like an old Australian-minted half-sovereign, was shown to a Post representative yesterday. The word “sixpence” on the reverse side has been obliterated cleverly, and even a more than ordinarily careful person might think the obliteration was caused by wear. But, of couise, the coin is much lighter than a half-sovereign, and this tact first caused a bank-teller to question its bona fides. Other banks have been notified that the coin— and possibly others —is in circulation.

“ Those who think it unlucky to walk under a ladder, or sit down to dinner in a party of thirteen,” remarks a writer in the Hobart Mercury, “ will be very chary about Ne v Year. He came in on a Friday, and he will go out on a Friday, and he will serve us up fifty-three Fridays in all before we have done with him. However, I may point out that there is something to be said on the other side. Mr H. O. ArnoldForster, in his ‘ History of England,” draws attention to the fact that the ‘ fifteens ’ have all been important years in English history. In 1215 Magna Cbarta was signed and England became free ; in 1415 Henry the fifth won the battle of Agincourt; in 1715 the Jacobite rebellion was suppressed, and in 1815 we won the battle of Waterloo. On the whole, therefore, we may consider that the omens are propitious.”