Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2844, 10 February 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Rugby Scot bind defon I I'd Wales I>y 21 to I I, ill Swansea oil St.-i I - unlay. Mr B, Roberts. (lie Labour candidate Cor Manawatu, will deliver an address in (lie. Masonic. liall a I 8 o'clock on Thursday owning.

A six-year-old child named William Alexander Rainliam was drowned in llix* Wang:inni River on Salnrday.

Those present al last night's Borough Cmmeil meeting were Tlis Worship the Mayor (John Ohrystnll Esq.) and Grs. Bryant, Smith. R. J. Thompson, Parkin, Ross and M. Walker.

During a practice sparring bout with Charles Purdy, the young Auckland boxer, at ‘Auckland on Saturday, Henry Stehr eomplained of feeling unwell and left the ring, hut collapsed and died, probably of heart failure.

Drag*-net li.slwng at the seaside provides a pleasurable, and profitable pastime to" seaside visitors. Included in the catches are numbers of undersized flounders, which are thrown hack into the water. It is as well to stall' fhal a substantial fine is provided for retaining flounders below the regulation size.

Miss Turner, lecturing to t lie London Camera Club a Hen spending a seven months' lonely vigil on the bird sanctuary island of SeoJt'hent. advanced the theory that bachelor birds congregate together. She discovered that all tlx; male oyster catchers who had not paired during the mating season, went and occupied a separate section of the island never allowing female birds there. They held prolonged conclaves, often resulting in free lights.

It is reported that one of the fastidious newly married ladies of this town kneads bread with her gloves on. This incident may he somewhat peculiar, but there are others. The editor of this paper needs bread with his shoes on: lie needs bread with his shirt on; lie needs bread with his pants on, and unless some of (he delinquent subscribers of this “Old Rag of Freedom” pony up before long, he will need bread without a damn thing on, and Wisconsin is no Garden of Eden in the winter time, says the paper.

For nearly five hours at Auckland on Saturday, the .jury deliberated on the case of William Pitman, charged with manslaughter, ‘and finally returned a verdict of guilty with a very strong recommendation to mercy. The charge arose on: f the death of Elsie Lilian Roberts, who was run into by a motor car driven by Pitman in Upper Queen St. A large crowd, including accused’s wife and a number of women waited until the jury returned. The Judge said he would not deal with accused until Friday next. In the meantime lie could go out on bail, his personal bond being sufficient.

The Dixie Jubilee Ringers have abandoned their visit lo Fox.!on this week, hut will appear locally al a later date. Word to ibis offer! was telegraphed to us yesterday. Quito a number of motor cars ami motor cycles preceded over the new-ly-formed track hading from the old river bed through the drift sand jo the ocean beach on Sunday. The track is formed by placing bundles of flax refuse crosswise on linn sand which assists the propulsion of the driving wheels. The Ira Hie over the track on Sunday helped lo give Urn (rack a firmer foundation and provided if does not drift over, if will enable visitors to lake a delightful run for several miles along' the seashore.

Mr Justice Alpcrs, the newly appointed judge, was horn in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1 S(>7, and lms had a distinguished and varied carccr as teacher and barrister. Ife was educated in the KelshorV Grammar School, Copenhagen, and the Napier School, New Zealand. He is a graduate of Canterbury ColIgt having obtained his M.A. degree with first-class honours in languages and literature in ISS7. He was a master of the Boys’ High School, Christchurch, for some time, obtaining his L.L.B. degre in Mr Alpers was admitted to the Bar in 1004. He has also achieved distinction as an author and journalist. Mr Alpers was the recipient of numerous congratulations from friends who had heard the early news of his appointment.

Mr W. C. Buckner, manager of th “Dixie Jubilee Singers” is proud of his company, not only because of its musical talent —but because as a combination it is a direct successor of the Donovan Tennessians, one of the pioneer organisations of negro singers. In coversation with a Wanganui Chronicle representative Mr Buckner said that the original Fish Jubilee Singers who toured New Zealand nearly thirty years iigo, were organised in the United States in 1871, and two years later the. Tennessians came into existence. Like the old Fisks, the Tennessee Jubilee Singrs “carried on” for many years, singing their folk songs and plantation melodies in all parts of America and Canada. When the old company dissolved in 1901 Mr and Mrs Buckner “filled the gap” by forming the present company of Dixie Jubilee Singers, who, until they left for New Zealand in October last, were continually on tour either in the Big Republic or the neighbouring; Dominion. The old pioneers who came out to New Zealand in the long long ago, little dreamt as hey smoked the imported black plug the storekeepers used to sell, that, the land of their adoption would one day produce line tobacco of its own, and in some respects actually superior to the best imparled. Bui so it is. The industry is only in its infancy as yet. But it promises to develop into a source of our national wealth —a point of I remeiidous importance to the struggling settlers on the poverty-strick-en gum. lauds of the North, which, poor as they arc, will yet grow splendid tobacco. If hut a fraction of this barren land, so rich in to-bacco-producing possibilities, were devoted to the culture of the “weed” i! would mean the salvation of many a settler and the ultimate enrichment of the Dominion. The local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smolTing foreign tobaccos because of the excess of nicotine, which affected their health. Try “Riverhead Gold,” mild, “Navy Gut,” (Bulldog) medium or “Gut 'Plug No. 10” (Bullhead) full. -«r3l-