Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2836, 20 January 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A slight earthquake was felt locally on Sunday night shortly after midnight.

The ocean beach attracted another large gathering on Sunday afternoon. The tide being favourable large numbers disported in the surf.

Miss Vida Barron, assistant to the professor of modern languages at Otago University is a visitor to Fox lon where she will spend a brief holiday with her brother, Mr D. R. Barron.

A first-oifemling inebriate arrested for drunkenness. on Saturday night was convicted and lined 5/at tile local police court yesterday morning by Air Honiblow, J.P.

Sunlight soap only J/li packet at Ba uckhain’sf

It is estimated that over fifty thousand arrived at Toulouse to witness the All Black-French match on Sunday. At lean icn thousand were uua-.'o to liud accommodation ami walked the streets all night. The gate receipts exceeded .€4,000.

On (he occasion of the farewell luncheon to the All Blacks-on January 22, the Prince of Wales will present Nepia with a silver rose howl to form,a permanent trophy of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Erie Methven Roberts, assistant storekeeper on the Public Works at Behunjont, was committed at Dunedin for sentence on charges of theft of Government stores to the value of £97. Accused sold stores to people in the district representing that

On Saturday night there was a very perceptible drop in the temperature and a black frost nipped lute potato chops. Mr P. W. Brown, of No. 1 Line, had a crop of potaloes frostbitten and found it necessary to mow the tops in order to save the tubers.

A well-known union secretary of Dunedin has been missing for a weel:. The police have the matter in hand, hut no furlher jMails are at present available.

A sneak thief is operating locally. He' visited a couple of launches at the wharf the oilier evening and look a tin of benzine from one and removed sparking plugs from another launch.

The new uniforms made by the C. M. Ross Co. for the Fox ton Silver Band were delivered yesterday to the trustees of tin- Carnival fund. They are indeed a very line production and reflect credit on the makers.

The Fox lon Racing Club notify parents that children under the age of J.(5 years will no| he allowed on the racecourse either to-morrow or Thursday on the occasion of the Club’s annual meeting. This res--1 riel ion is in accordance with the Health Department regulations.*

A meeting of the Foxton Silver Band was held last night, when it was decided that, owing to the. full quota of the uniforms nol having arrived, and certain alterations requirmg' to lie made, bandsmen will he unable to appear in uniform at (lie local races.

A Palmerston N. drapery firm has presented a claim for £SO for damage done to its carpets by the carrying in of tar from, the footpath by customers. The statement was made by the claimants that no notice of the Council’s intention to tar and sand the paths had been given and this was described hv a Councillor as neglect of the definite instruct ions of the Council.

“The system of print-writing is practised in most: schools in England ami Scotland," said Dr. J. AY. MTlwrailii, inspector of schools, in addressing members of the Native School Teachers’ Association at Auckland, on Wednesday. “It has been found,’’ lie said, “to he 25 per cent faster than ordinary longhand and is, of course, much more legible.”

Oat liarvesting is in full swing in south Otago, and the yields in most cases promise to he good, reports “The Post’s” Dunedin correspondent, quoting a Cluthn paper. In the Pukewa district are to he seen fields of mils ruined by black smut, and il is doubtful if' Ihe mils will he worth threshing. Fortunately this is an isolated case. Although yields all round the district promise to he heavy, the quality on the whole is below I lie average for many years, and chaff wil command a high price in the coming winter.

“I am imposing this fine as a warning h«-cause most shopkeepers are not aware of the alteration which was made in the Act last session,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.AI. at Christchurch, when a number of shopkeepers were fined 20/- for selling sweats and cigarettes on Sunday. The Magistrate added: “The penalty has been raised by the amendment from £1 to £5, and if these people come before me again they will render themselves liable to the higher penalty.”

Sugar i- only 19/0 per bag at Bauckha m’s. t

That the mouth of the Manawatu river is rapidly hearing to the south is clearly evidenced at low tide, Sand bank's can he observed where a few years hack was tlie deep water channel. If the same southerly encroachment continues these shallows will soon become dry river foreshore. The sand dunes on the south spit are gradually being washed out and swirled hack to the north, forming an embankment. The same process has been going on almost, impereeptibly for years as is evidenced hv the location of the old river bed, now distant about a quit ■ ter of a mile from the present' < lianuel.

Bell Ten only .‘5/1 lb. at, BanekImm's.f

The London “Daily Express” Paris correspondent stales thaf Mademoiselle Poesy, aged fifty, who vowed she would never eat or drink again in consequence of her lover abandoning her a few days before their arranged wedding day, died of starvation at Nantes. Her lover, George Duhant, stayed with Mdlle. Poesy’s sister and brother-in-law but disappeared with a quantity of money and clothing after which Mdlle. Poesy refused all food for three weeks. She was then removed to hospital in a dying condition, and died exactly a, month after taking her vow.

Robert Louis Stevenson once declared, according to one of his bi•ographers: “No woman should marry a man who doesn’t smoke,” and Stevenson, it must he admitted, knew human nature. Another famous man of letters, Bulwer-Lyttou, wrote (see his novel, “What will he do with It?”) “He who doth not smoke hath either known no greater grief, or refused h himself the softest consolation next to that which cemts from heaven.” As to the harmfulness of the habit, much — very much —depends upon the tobacco. Brands heavily charged with nicotine are best avoided. In that respect and in other respects, our own New Zealand grown tobaccos hold pride of place, because they contain comparatively little nicotine and may therefore he indulged in ad. lib., without affecting nerves or heart. Doubtless that is why they are finding favour with so many smokers. They are on sale everywhere, and are adapted to all tastes. “Riverltead Gold,” is mild aromatic; “Toasted Navy Cut,” (Bulldog) a delightful medium and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bull’s Head label) a fine full-flavoured tobacco. 24