Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2819, 4 December 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“Choicest” Victorian butter is selling wholesale in Melbourne at present at 1/3 per lb., and other grades at concessions. t

Mr Geoffrey E. Duveen, who himself has suffered from deafness, lias written to the University College Hospital, London, offering a gilt of £50,000 for the (-oustruction and qnipment of a new ear, nose and throat, hospital. He states that he selected the hospital because it bad already been selected by the Rockefeller Foundation as the medium for carrying out its great imperial scheme ot medical education.

Fishing in the Kangilikei River at Farcwanui Messrs Twigg ami Knowles, two Marlon anglers, noticed an eel eliasng trout, says the Feilding Star. They forsook fishing and went for the eel, which inter they were fortunate in catching, but not on the “fly.” ft was 57 inches long and weighed 191 b.

There has been a marked increase in tea-drinking in France, where tea urns once seldom taken except as a drug. The whole world seems to be turning the same way, in view of rlie enormous increase in Indian exports, amounting to more than 40,000,0001b.in a single year. Germany, Italy, i’ersia, Arabia and tile United States once devoted to coffee, seem 10 be rapidly acquiring a taste for tea, while Great Britain is drinking more than ever.

Since tile passing of the Gaming Amendment Act, providing for the issue of 31 additional totalisalor permits, sporting enthusiasts in ■marly every town of Ihe Dominion boasting a race track are on the look-out for one of the permits. Referring to the matter at Raglan on Saturday (says the Post’s Auckland correspondent), the lion. R. E. Bollard, who as Minister for Internal Affairs, is responsible for allocating the permits, remarked that Raginn was the only town he had visi,cd lately that had not shown eagerness for preferment under the Act. " . . . and, ladies and gentlemen, I congratulate you on the distinction you have achieved.”

A very rare bird—a kotului. or white heron —visited Wanganui on Saturday and was seen by a number of people, who stopped to gaze at She beautiful stranger, with its long slender neck and glorious white plumage. Burglars entered the office of Richard Arthur Ltd., nuctioners, of Auckland, opened Die safe by cutting- the hasp of the padlock, and removed £.IOO in easli and jewellery valued at £SO. Apparently a skeleton key was used to secure entry 1 >\* Die front door of the premises. 'flic Associated Australasian banks have raised their London selling rates on New Zealand drafts on mail transfers to 37/6 per cent, and oil premium and cable transfers 45/-, and have reduced the rates on nurehasing documents and bills to 5/- per cent., discount at sight; 16/3 at thirty days; 27/6 at sixty days, and 40/- at ninety days.

Miss Mona Neale, A.T.C.L., L.T. C.L., A.L.C.M., of Nathan Terrace, Shannon, has been successful in gaining her L.L.C.M. Diploma for pianoforte examination, and is now entitled In wear (be Gown. Cap and Hood of the College. She was also successful in passing her L.A.B. Qualifying Examination of the Associated Board of the R.A.M. and R.C.M. of London. She is a pupil of Mr Robert Parker, F.R.A.M., also of Mr Leon l.)e Manny, for pianoforte and violin, both being wellknown musicians of Wellington. Miss Neale and her pupils are giving a musical concert in the Maori--Isi rid Theatre, Shannon, on Tuesday next.)

Why should a man who is carefu 1 to wear and use only Empire products, continually cram his pipe full of American tobacco 1 ? Keep the money in the country by smoking our verv own tobacco, grown in New Zealand. Try it, and yop will be delighted with its unequalled mildness and smooth and mellow smoking properties, due to the small percentage of nicotine and to the toasting process to which the tobacco has been subjected. This m-i.es for ho’j«lth, since excess in nieotijue lias a jverv bad influence mi the heart and tu rves. Once the smoker gets accustomed to the pure tobacco flavour of the local product lie will reject all foreign brands with their adulalerations and iie will awaken to the fact that he can get a better article, grown and manufactured in bis own country, for less money. Those who like a full body should trv Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label, or the somewhat milder Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) vastly different from the non-toasted, imported brands, while Riverhead Gold excels all others in mildness and aroma. 1