LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2708, 15 March 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As an evidence of the mildness of the present season apple and pear trees may he seen again blooming in local orchards. The shop premises in Main St, recently occupied by the Buxton Motor and Engineering Co. have been renovated throughout and will be occupied by AJr A. E. Admore, painter and paper hanger. Bandsmen are reminded that, they will leave the practice room at 11 o’clock on Monday morning to participate in the .Sandon sports. The “Jazz Quartette” and the “Ragtime” team will assemble for final reher.su.ls at 2 p.m. to-morrow. In connection with reports of possessions of “Strads” (says (he Taranaki Daily News), Mr 0. J. Rowe, of Ilawera, has a violin hearing the following inscription: “Antonus Stradiurius Cremoiiensis. Fueeibat Anijo 1179. A gas-proof suit was displayed by the Chemical Warfare Service at the Exhibition of Chemical Industries in New York. Those in charge of the exhibit say that the front line in the next war will be the fvh.ole surface of the earth, and every civilian, at least- every one in the great centres of population can live only if he is clad in a gas-proof costume resembling a divers suit, “1 know of houses in Scotland,” said a Labour member in the House of Commons recently, “in such bad condition that if you move the bed uni reveal a hole in the wall, and you can steal margarine from your neighbour’s table. I have seen two pictures in different houses hung on the same nail.”

Dr. Bridgeman has been appointed house surgeon at the Palmerston North Hospital.

Within five miles of Wanganui, there is in one locality about 500,000 feet of matured pinus insignus timber which a visiting sawmiller has declared to he the best lie has seen in the North Island. But there is apparently no market for it, as it is to lie cut into firewood, the best royalty being 3s to 4s per 100 feet.

Miss Derrett, the victim of the shark tragedy at Coogee, Sydney early in February this year, was discharged from the hospital fitted with false limbs. She resumed work with her old employers, and attributes her recovery to the dominance of mind on which subject she is an ardent preacher, and declares, but for the strong will to live, she would never have left the hospital. The growth of the fruit business in the hands of the Asiatics was emphasised by a remark made by one of the parties to the Hindoo breach of the peace ease in court recently (says the TTnwera Star), when lie said: “We have now the biggest trade in New Zealand.” It emphasised their industry, spare methods of living and their long hours of work.

A conference took place in the Borough Council Chambers on Thursday night between the Moutoa Drainage Board and Manawatu Oroua River Board in connection with the proposed cuts affecting the former’s district. The proceedings were not of a public nature but explanatory in order that the engineer’s plans could be explained in detail.

The great emporium called the Bon Marche, in Paris, has the largest kitchen in the world. The smallest kettle used in this kitchen contains 100 quarts, and the largest 500. Each of the fifty roasting pans has room for 300 cutlets, and every dish for baking potatoes can hold 2251 b. Sixty cooks and 100 assistants are always at the range during the cooking hours. An old boar which was put np for auction at a clearing sale in the Ashburton district evidently was not. wanted bv any of the stockmen present (relates the Guardian). The auctioneer could not gel a bid, not even a sixpenny one. Finally he pulled out a £1 note and planted it on the pig’s Lack. “Now gentlemen,” lie said, “ what will you give for the lot.?” The hoar and the note were sold for 18/-.

The danger of a person handling the telescopic rails between carriages when the speed of the train is being changed was emphasised by a painful accident which occurred in a Lower Hutt train as it was slowing up at Lambton Station on Thursday. A hoy passing from one carriage to the other, grasped the side rail to steady himself, and as the train eased up the rail telescoped and cut the tops off two of his lingers. That the Palmerston N. Hospital has been accommodating 129 patients whereas the regulation beds in the institution numbered 125, was an announcement made to the Hospital Board by the chairman (Sir James Wilson) on Thursday. He said the Director-General of Health had visited the hospital when there were 120 patients there and he had been greatly impressed by the necessity for additional beds. The institution was frequently being over-crowded.

The “Daily Express’ ’’ Liege correspondent says Emile Depret, aged 18, confessed at Mens to live murders. He said lie never went without a revolver and delighted in shooting passers-by for sport. Recently he found an axe with which he battered a miner to death simply to try his strength. He did not know the man. but wi)s pleased to find sixpence in his pocket. Depret is suspected of a mysterious crime in the forest of Soignes, where the body of a young French woman was found with two bullets in her head.

Eigidently the importance of telling the truth at all times has been impressed upon the pupils of u cor tain Junior High School in the City. A dav or two ago one of the teachers asked her class if any of them had heard the Westminster Glee Singer- during their recent showing in Auckland. Two lads intimated Hint they had, and the teacher then asked one lad if he had noticed the formation of the lips of the singers when pronouncing their words. “No miss. I was listening at the ventilator,” was the somewhat unexpected reply.

Unless all signs fail X.Z. tobacco is destined to become famous the world over for its excellent smoking qualities. Like wild tire lias the local product spread over all parts of the Dominion, capturing the (rude wherever it made its appearance. If is lints evident that the N.Z. article must possess certain virtues which make it superior to the foreign tobacco and not the least, is its small contents of nicotine. This fuel would particularly recommend it to the smoker who studies his health, because N.Z. tobacco even if smoked excessively does not affect the heart or nerves and leaves the mouth sweet and clean. But what is equally important, the tobacco is now being subjected to a Toasting process and, as g result, its aroma has been greatly improved, iw bite, no soppiness, often so objectionable jq many of the foreign brands. Try Rjverhead Gold if you like a very mild and aromatic quality, or Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) of medium strength; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhead label) if you prefer a full body.*

Freezing works are now offering 22s Gd per lOOlbs for prime bullocks, says the Masterton News. In reference to a statement made by Mr Martin and published in our last issue concerning blight on and the danger of falling limbs from trees in the Avenue Rd., the Rev. Mr Walton informs us that verifidation of this statement before publication would have disproved the cation of this statement before pubMr Walton says that the trees are not affected with blight and that there is no danger to pedestrians from falling limbs. Several men looking fox work have passed Foxton recently. One young fellow, accompanied by his two sheep dogs, informed our reporter that he had walked from Wellington. He had been previously employed on a station just out of Wellington and was making for Wanganui. He said he could have gut a lift on the road but he would not part with his faithful canine companions, who would assist him to get a job later on. The usual united meeting for intercession was held in the Anglican Church on Tuesday night, when an address on “Christian prayers” was given by the Rev. J. Boothroyd. The Rev. W. 11. Walton conducted the service and expressed his regret that Mr Boothroyd would soon be leaving Foxton. The meeting on Tuesday next will be held in the Presbyterian Church and the new officer of the Salvation Army will give the address. A poll of ratepayers of the city of Dunedin, on a proposal to authorise a municipal loan of £200,000 for purposes of reconstructing certain streets in permanent paving, also kerbing and channelling in the backward nr undeveloped portions of the city, and generally to provide funds for the improvement of streets under the control of the City Council, was taken at Dunedin yesterday and carried by a two one majority on a very small poll.

Harold Osbourne, of the. Illinois University, is just reported to have cleared 6ft 7 7-lfijn, which is one eighth of ail inch above the world’s record high jump. The jump, however, is unofficial. A photograph of his jumping this height affords a clear illustration of the way A-* merman jumpers “roll” over the bar. As they reach tile fop of the (light iti front of the bar, the nearest leg is up. The distant arm is then flung across, and this action twists the body and brings the off leg first over the bar. “Where goods of any kind are imported into New Zealand from the United Kingdom, the Continent, United States of America. Queensland or Western Australia, and where any bay, straw, or chaff’ is received with such goods, the importer shall, within three days of unpacking of such goods, thoroughly destroy all such hay. straw, or chaff by burning.” Extract from X.Z. Gazette of March fi. These regulations have been brought into force under the Stock Act-, and are for the purpose of preventing the introduction of disease into the Dominion. The penalty for a breach of the regulations-is a fine of not le.-s than £2 nor more than £2O.

A trial is being made in Christchurch of a new process of mad construction. reinforced tarred macadam, and an experimental section has been laid down on the west side of Colombo Street between Moorhouse Avenue and the railway. The new process involves the Use of specially constructed mesh wire, known BBC fabric, and this is placed between two layers of tarred macadam. The bot--11 in layer is first put down and well rolled, and the metal reinforcing fabric is then laid and dogged down to the road. The second layer of tarred macadam is then put down and rolled well into the meshes of the fabric. It is claimed that the reinforcing fabric between the two layers of macadam will eliminate the waves which at present are very notieahle on many sections of roadway constructed on the ordinary tarred macadam principle, such waves being caused by sinking due to weak foundation. The cost of tho reinforced tarred macadam works out at approximately 7/6 a square yard.