LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2697, 19 February 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A slight earthquake was experienced locally at 11.15 o’clock this morning. .

Mrs Wyllie. who has resided with her son. Dr. Wyllie, in Foxton, since the latter took up his residence here, left to-day for New Plymouth, where she intends to permanently reside.

A grant of .Cl9o, being tin* first half of it- contribution towards the furnishing of the Feilding Agricultural High School, was made to the Board of Governors of that institution hy the Mann wain Connlv Council, -ay- the Feilding Star.

The monllily meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperanee Union is to he held in the Methodist Sunday schoolroom on Thursday next a! .'1 p.m. As it is “Frances Willard Day” a good attendance is request-

The antiquity of linger print recording was referred to in the Supreme Court in Auckland recently. Mr Justice Tlerdman said il was known before Christ. Mr Paterson who appeared for the Crown, said (here were records of it in 48b B.C. and (lie witness, Dr. Do Clive Lowe, said they could go hack still further.

A pardon arrived too late ill French Guiana for Bnptistan Travail. a master criminal, who revealed on his death-bed that he forced (lie strong room of the Austrian Embassy at Berne in wartime to secure documents for the Allies. He refused a reward because he fell he was serving his country. He did not disclose lii.s identity when sentenced to imprisonment for life for a subsequent exploit in Paris.

Good progress is being made with the construction of the LawrenccRoxborough railway in Otago. The rails are now laid for about nine miles past Beaumont and the greater part of this section lias been ballasted. There are still about five and thrceqnarfer miles of line to construct before Miller’s Flat is reached, but Mr Coates hopes to have the line finished to that point 1)v June or July.

Dairy farmers in the Tatuauui district estimate that their losses, through sterility in stock, araouht to £IO,OOO. At a representative meeting held at Morrinsville, il was decided to urge upon the Government to establish a veterinary surgeon in the district in which, including the country between Te Aroba and Morrinsville, there were between 35,000 to 40,000 cows, there being no vet. nearer than Hamilton. This state of affairs was considered to be scandalous.

So close, bad been the part of British naval officers in the building up of the Japanese Navy, said Vice-Admiral Saito at the civic reception in Auckland, that certain English marine terms had been imported into I lie Japanese language. The words “bow,” “funnel,” “stern" “engine room,” “mast,” and many dlhers were used in the navy. The present status of the Japanese Navy was due largely to the training of British officers.

“Yonder lies —in the seat I have .just vacated —your Honour, all the source of our troubles” declared ilie husband of a complainant with a dramatic sweep of his band, during the hearing of a maintenance ease hoard before Mr Wyvern Milson, S.M.. in the Magistrate's Court at Christchurch. “There lie novels —seventeen of them —that my wife reads while she sits down and smokes. cigarettes instead of doing her work!” “Do you smoke 1" asked the Magistrate. “Yes." "Well, you don t mind the smoke (hen, do you?"

A curious fishing experience was Hie lot of ail Auckland angler at Lake Taupo the other day, says Hie Herald. After lie had struck a trout il ran out with more than ordinary strength and speed, until only a- few feet of his 140 ft. line remained on the reel. From its pace and pull lie judged that lie had hooked at least a 30-pounder. By a stratagem lie checked its run and, alter a prolonged struggle, managed to haul it within galling distance. Meanwhile fellow-fishers gathered round, expecting to see soinethiug rare in piscatorial size and weight. As n matter of tact, though a tine tish, it scaled only about 121 b. The explanation of its unusual strain on Ihe gear was that it had been hooked in the flesh behind the ventral tin and so had free headway in its (light, instead of the usual amount of restraint from the rod. The supposition is that in rising to the bait it had over-run the Uy and had been hooked in its swirl over the end of the tackle.

Why is smoking so often attended with results that caused medical men to order then’ patients to either discontinue the iiabit, or greatly modify it. It is simply because the percentage of nicotine in most imported tobaccos is so high, and it is the nicotine in excess that renders smoking injurious. Now, our New Zealand grown tobaccos contain so small a percentage of nicotine that it is practically a negligible quantity, and besides, they are subjected to a new toasting process. Toasting develops the flavour, removes all deleterious properties and makes the tobacco climate proof. Toasted tobacco is recommended to those who study their health and appreciate a pure tobacco. If you like a full body, try Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label, or the somewhat milder Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog). There is another brand, Riverhead Gold, which excels all others in mildness and aroma. They may he smoked with impunity and cost 25 per cent, less than the foreign lines.*

R. Hofmann, Union St., notifies that he undertakes gramaphone repairs, also that he sells the leading gramaphones for o_uah or on terms.

The failure to keep an alleged promise to marry resulted in the aggrieved lady horsewhipping the man eoneenied. a well-known resi<!i nl nf Masterlon.

Tin 1 Waimarino Acclimatisation Society lias declared an open season for red deer. Four licenses will he issued, and the ballot will take place on February 20. During Mr Christie’s absence, on holiday, Mr Aleock, from the firm’s headquarters, will take charge of Hie local branch of the C. M. Ross Co. Ltd.

A reminder is given of the public meeting to be held in the Town Hall supper-room on Thursday evening to dismiss a proposal for equipping a children’s playground on Easton Park.

The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin corlespondeni stales that Von Kahr, Dictator of Bavaria, created a sensation hy proposing conscription of labour under which men between Hie ages of 20 and 30 would be liable to be ealled up for a year, and women between 18 and 25 for six months. By this means lie Imped to relieve unemployment, carry out public works and promote the people’s health and spirit.

Monday week was the 2584th anniversary of the crowning of the first. Emperor of Japan, the Emperor -jimmu (of the strength, and courage of a god), and everywhere in Japan the day was celebrated as one of the nation’s greatest festivals. On the arrival of a party from the Japanese training squadron at Hamilton on Tuesday, the visitors insisted on becoming for a short time hosts to the Mayor and councillors, whom they entertained at the Hamilton Hotel, when the health of the Emperor of Japan and that of King George were drunk in champagne. The visitors sang the Japanese national anthem, and joined heartily in singing “God Save the King."

Waterloo Bridge, which is being examined hy experts in view of the subsidence of the piers, must, in the opinion of Mr W. A. Pite, architect and an authority on bridge construction, either be left as it is or entirely rebuilt. The primary cause of the trouble, be said, is (he increased scour of the river round the bases of the bridge piers due to the construction of the Thames Embankment. The effect of the scour is to wash away the silt in which the bases of the bridge are embedded, and in time this exposes and weakens the basework ~f Hie structure. Mr Fite pointed (.ill that it would not be safe to widen Waterloo bridge by cantilever because of the increased weight involved.