Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL .

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2849, 21 February 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL .

The Manawahi ('minty Council falls tenders for four contracts in this issue. For I'urlher particulars M-e advertisemcnl. The body of an infant, wrapped in brown paper, was found on the Esplanade, at Now Brighton, Christ,ehnreh, yesterday morning. Walter Miiiiii, who resided at S prey don. Christchurch, was found dead yesterday afternoon, shot through tlio heart. As a result of a (ire in Wanganui on Friday last, Dustin’s (caterers) lost close on £1,00(1 worth of eggs, which had been preserved for winter use. Among those who gained senior free places at (lie examinations held in Palmerston A'., at the end of last year, were A. llaydock and T. Hussey, local pupils of the Palmerston N. Girls’ High School. In the course of opening the Protestant Political Association campaign at Dunedin on Wednesday, Mr Howard Elliott stated that lie hojjed to raise £IO,OOO for the work, a third of which he had now got in cash or promises. Take one reckless, natural-born fool; two or three drinks of bad liquor; a fast, high-powered motor ear. Soak the fool in the liquor, place iu the car, and let him go. After due time, remove from wreckage, place in black satin-lined box, and garnish with (lowers. At the New Plymouth Supremo Court yesterday Herman Arthur Lewis was found guilty of having carnal knowledge of a girl under 16 and was remanded for sentence till to-day. John O’Grad.y was sentenced to thi’ce years’ reformative for attempting to commit an unnatural offence.

Eight o’clock to-night will see the closing oi' (he big record breaking sale at the C. M. Boss Co. Patrons to our stores will lind extra--01 dinary values in all departments. Next week will be aider sale bargain week, when all goods lei't over from the sale will be cleared, bee Tuesday’s advertisement. It is the inteiilion oi the Shannon Borough Council In enforce the by-law compelling residents to keep their back yards clean and a representative of the Council will shortly make a house-to-house inspection within the Borough with instructions to prosecute any householder who is not complying with the by-law. “1 though! 1 heard an aeroplane when 1 woke up at .New Plymouth .on Sunday morning,” said one of the American tourist party at Wanganui. “11 was a steady droning noise, and il was a crowd of bigger mosquitoes than anything I've seen in liie insect line over in the Stales, bay, they stung us worse than the Maoris up at Botorua.”

Mr Fred Shaw informs us that he will not he a candidate for municipal honours at the forthcoming election. “Nothing is I'urlher from my mind,” says Mr Slmw. With his fiancee, whom he kissed after lunch in a public cafe, a commercial traveller was arrested at Bordeaux and charged with indecent behaviour. The couple who are to be married in a few days lime, were both taken to the police station and formally charged Iml Ibe magistrate dismissed the ease.

A quick retort by Mr .1. W Boynton, S.M., when hearing a ease of dangerous driving by a motorist, caused amusement in the Auckland Police Court last week. A constaple said the defendant stated lie “wanted to get up the hill on top.” “Yes, on top of someone else, perhaps,” was the Magistrate’s rejoinder. Fined £2 and £1 1/- costs.” According to Cr. W. Adams, those responsible for carrying out the bocugli sewerage system made a great mistake in laying down concrete instead of glazed sewerage pipes. Cr Adams informs us that the life of concrete pipes is about ter to twelve years and that the cost of replacing them in about ten years’ time, will cost anything up to £15,000. “There are more mental defectives in this country than there should be. Our people will have to ile something about it,” remarked Sir Robert Stout, at the Wellington Supreme Court, recently. The reformative institutions were full of mental cases. The people in them were not mad, but they had done tilings that had they shown the commonest of sense they would not have done.

The Carterton correspondent of the Wairarapa. Standard says: Mr McKeen, Labour M.P., spoke to a sparse house on Monday night. He hurled abuse at the Press because ii was not Labour and generally condemned all political thought, except that which lie represented. He was accorded a hearty vote of thanks on the motion of Mr Ben Roberts, a Labour aspirant for the Maim wain seat.

At this week’s meeting of llie ITorowlienna Power Board, Mr R. NT. Speirs, timber merchant. Fusion, applied for power to drive bis mill u| l lie same rate as supplied to llaxmillers. The chairman stated that the mailer had been referred to the engineer and himself some time ago, and ho would suggest that it be left in l heir hands. lie could not hold out any hope I hat they would supply power at (he same price ns given to llaxmillers, but he thought iliat the matter was one for negoliatimi which was agreed to. Two of Ihe Timnnr Borough Council's by-laws fixing the maximum

speeds round cornel's at six miles per hour and across street intersection.- at eight miles per hour, were upset by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., at the Mngslrale's Court, at Tinuiru last week. From his own experience in 1920 he was satisfied he said, that a ear going at. four ui six miles all hour was not under proper control. He would have lo hold that I lie* by-law setting out the maximum speed at six miles per hour round corners was unreasonable, and therefore ultra vires.

When the Tlororala, which berthed at Auckland yesterday, was three days out from Liverpool, a young sailor, F. Kindred, was washed overboard and lost in a severe storm, be and another seaman, Everett, were sent aft to cover a ventilator on the lee side. A big sea caught, them unawares, sweeping Kindred right over I lie stern. 'He was seen..swimming around, but nothing could be done, owing to the heavy seas. He was aged 24 and was working his passage out intending to settle in New Zealand. Everett. bad a narrow escape for his legs caught in the side rails and he was able to ding on until rescued by Iwo passengers. He was badly bruised and shaken and also suffering from shock.

A couple of lads got the fright of their young lives a day or two ago (ielates the Waipa “Post”). They had dragged home four or live benzine tins tied together with string hii! could not untie them. They solved the difficulty by applying a match which effectively burned the -Bing and incidentally caused an explosion, some liquid or fumes ap- ) arenllv remaining in the containers. One lad suffered burns on his lingers and the oilier got a smack .icross the forehead with a ilyng piece of tin. They were lucky and now realise that matches and benzine tins are a dangerous combination.

Did you know that Lord Jellicoe was a devotee of the “weed'?” He eliielly smokes cigarettes, but eonlines himself to one packet of ten per diem. Quite moderate! Yes. Some people smoke thrice that quantity hit ween breakfast and bed. But despite the popularity of the “eig,” millions of smokers prefer the pipe. As to the injuriousness of smoking i| largely depends upon the tobacco. the important brands, as a ride, are simply loaded with nicotine, so that their habitual use cannot be good. In that respect they differ materially from our New Zealand grown tobaccos. These are toasted hence their delightful tlavour and fragrance. Also they are comparatively free from nicotine and do not burn the tongue, wreck the nerves or affect the heart. There is unquestionably a great future before these tobaccos, and already the growing, curing and manufacture of the leaf is becoming, an important Niw Zealand industry, and farmers an* finding a tobacco crop a profitable one to cultivate. Brands chiefly in demand are Kiverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; and Cut Plug No. 10, full. 36

At the New Plymouth Supreme Court on Thursday, Francis Vivian Charles Harris King, who pleaded gulity on Tuesday to several charges of indecent assault and unnatural offences on boys, at Hawera, was sentenced to five years’ hard labour. A recent topic of much interest a Hobart lias been the price of be.or. At present, it costs (id for a small glass, and a campaign is to be launched to bring about a reduction. The slogan is 10 ounces for sixpence. Tf a reduction is not obtained by any other means, it is Mended to organise a beer strike! A young Franklon housewife had an unpleasant experience. She had occasion to go to a cupboard, an unusually large one, and while she was inside her nine-months-old .baby, which had crawled after her, touched the door, which swung to and locked. The mother found herself imprisoned and was unable to force the door. The baby screamed and the woman called for help, but some time elapsed before attention was attracted. A neighbour then entered the house and released her.