Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2857, 12 March 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1925 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The grand aggregule of attendances at all the games played by the All J?la<'l<s al Home and In France was 708,500. A Palmerston X. butcher was this week lined £! and co.-us for having exposed meal l'<>r sale wlindi had nol been slaughtered at a registered ahattoiis. Brotherly love is nol allowed to interfere with Iho question of who is (he best heavyweight boxer in Europe. Emilio Spaila holds both Italian and European titles. His brother Giuseppe through the Boxing Federation, has now challenged him for the title.

“I have been a -niior and know how tilings are viewed at sea. The morals there are nol the morals of the land. Cargo is broached on two ( ut of every live ships tlmt come to port —the shipping company balan-ce-sheets show that.” —A witness in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch. Early last week a recent arrival in the Dominion, a Mormon missionary, aged 23, became sick at the missionary camp at Ngapuhi, a small settlement a few miles from Kaikohe. Doctors diagnosed the case as smallpox and Dr Chesson, Medical Officer of Health, isolated the patient, also tlic contacts who have been vaccinated.

A good story is going the rounds about an old Scotchman dying, with his wife sitting beside him for several days and nights. She at last became so tired out that she deluded to have a sleep, hut before doing this she had the precaution to say: “Jock, if you find yourself slipping into the next world while I am asleep, don’t forget to blow tlio candle out.”

The Hon. .1. A. LLauau announce * (hat he will nol seek re-election lor Invercargill in the next Parliamentary elections us lie intends residing in Dunedin, where his sons are studying at the University. He has represented the city for an unbroken period of 25 years, his last majority being 1,000. Though leaving Invercargill, he is not retiring from public life.

'J’he butter fat lests at most of the factories in the Pahiatua district are exceptionally high, and at factories such as Re.xda.le and Mangamutu, where the Jersey breed of cattle predominate, some very high individunl lests were recorded during February. The highest test at the former factory was 5.0, a number of suppliers recording 5 per cenl. and over.

A grey moth, measuring about three inches in length, which had hutched out from, a deep bore, liveeighths of an inch in diameter, in a hard-wood pole, has been forwarded to the Auckland Museum. The pole on which the insect was captured came from Australia. The moth was caught by Mr T. A. Kissed, of Quay Buildings, and he. described if as having a skull-shaped marking on the hack of llu* head, black and while rings around the hgs, and brill in til ruby eyes. The pupa ease I rom which the moth emerged was still partly in the. hole and ij was obvious that I In* original caterpillar had possessed remarkable boring power.

The ordinary monthly sitting of Hie local Alagistrate’s Court will he held to-morrow at 12 o'clock .

A start at beautifying the strip of land at: tin rthern end of the Court house, section has been commenced by the Beautii'y.ng Society. There will be a meeting of the Fcxlon Chamber of Commerce in the Town Hall supper-room at 7.90 this evening. Mr A. IMeXico! ( former ALP. for Pnhiaiua) will contest the Dnnnevirke seal at next General Election as the official Government candidate.

An invitation is extended to Foxton and district residents to pay a visit to the C. AI. Ross Co.’s showrooms on Saturday and following days, to witness their showing of autumn goods.

Mr Fordo Carlisle, of Palmerston North, will give an address in the Suppeijroom of the Town Hall tonight at 7.30 o’clock. A large chart will he displayed, showing God’s plan of the ages and will lie used to illustrate the remarks of the speaker. Mr Carlisle is a forceful and convincing preacher, and the public arc cordially inviled (o come and hear him.

The foundation stone of the new Masonic- temple at Invercargill, to cost £15,000, was laid with full Masonic. rites yesterday afternoon by the Hon. If. L. Michel, P. Pro. Grand Master. The plans show that this building will be a most imposing and valuable, addition |o the number of already large, fine public buildings possessed by Invercargill. The Madrid newspapers have been accustomed to appear with blank spaces showing where the censor’s pencil had been at work, mainly because this method was less expensive of time and money than to re-set the article censored. Now the censor has ordered that no indication is to he given that articles have been censored. This practice of leaving blank spaces is forbidden, penalties being attached for non-compliance. This is the Government’s New Year gift to the Press.

An interesting point in the topography of the Tarn runs was menlioned the other day by Mr G. 1,. Adkin to a Chronicle representative. There is a spo| in the ranges utmost opposite Levin, where no fewer than six rivers have their sources within a. radius of about a mile. These are the Otaki, Uhau, and Alangaliao, following the western watershed to llm sea on the west coast, and the Ruamahunga lb-wing southward to Cook Strait, and tin* Waiohine and Wairarapa which reach the sea on the East Coast. Five of the rivers have their H.-e in ilie slopes of one peak, named by Mr Adkin Arete Peak. but designated by the Alaslerton Tramping Chib Alt. Cnrkcek.

Due of the advantages of travel mi the Aorangi mentioned is that ihcrc is provision for apparently an endless supply of fresh water Baths ad lib. can he rejoiced in, for the adoption of the Diesel engine installed in the new steamer makes it possible to carry great reserves of fresh water. .Most of that carried by tin- ordinary'liners is used to feed the boilers, and the absence of these on the Aorangi gives a great latitude to passengers in the way of fresh water baths—a thing highly appreciated during the tropical part of the trip. Another point from the owners’ side of things is that the ship can carry enough to take, the vessel past those ports where the water supply is either meagre or expensive by reason of the difficulty of carriage and getting it aboard.

Religion by radio is now becoming universal in the United Stales. Every Sunday sermons by famous preachers are broadcasted all over the country, and in various centres a ■synagogue service is radiographed every evening. The Seventh Day Adventists have an operating station at Berrien Springs, State of Michigan, and another sect, the Zionists, founded by Unit extraordinary product of modern revivalism, 101 ija Dowie, send forth their propaganda from Zion City, Illinois. It is stated that the Roman Catholic Church, “for the purpose of acquainting the public with the Catholic view point upon current affairs," Inis contracted for a 5(10-wall station in New York City ;il a cost of £IO,OOO, to he run by the Uaulisl Fathers, a very great missionary congregation in the United States, who propose to erect similar stations at Chicago and San Francisco. Cardinal Hayes will use these stations to broadcast special messages to the Church.

Through the simple process of toasting his tobacco the modern manufacturer lias been able to effect an enormous improvement in the smoking quality. It is a wellknown fact that cooked food is more wholesome and more digestible (hau raw food, and the same principle applies to tobacco. Wo do not cat raw meat or lish or drink raw coffee, why should we smoke raw tobacco. It is wonderful liow the Ihivour of tobacco can he developed by toasting. Try any of the local brands and you will notice a marked improvement, ami wliat is also important, as a result of the toast ina' process, the tobacco loses all deleterious properties. Smokers who study their health should therefore give this matter their attention and avoid strong foreign tobaccos heavib charged with nicotine, they are sure to undermine even the most robust constitution. Not only is the local article purer and more wholesome than most of the imported brands, hut it is cheaper too. Riverhead Cold is mild and aromatic; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) of medium strength, hut if you prefer a Jolt body, try Cut Plug No. 10. 4

In conversation with a local foof!■■:111 club oHi(*i;i Ire Easton 1 *;irk and the Borough Council's conditions, la* said tt»i* (dubs should arrange among themselves the allotment: of the ground not a eomniitt.ee of the Council ;is this would only lead to further dissatisfaction. Tie said a meeting of the (dubs interested would be held to discuss the position. The London Daily Express Cairo correspondent reports a sensational discovery rivalling that of Tutankhamen’s tomb. Harvard University excavators at Gizeli found a shaft tilled with cement. They dug eighty feet and reaehed the fourth dynasty tomb of King Snefru, father of

King Cheops, the builder of the (treat Pyramids. The tomb is intact and contains objects of the greatest value.

The .Morning Post’s Belfast corlespondcnl expresses the opinion that the real object of the Ulster general election is an appeal to the country before the Boundary Commission’s report is handed in, thus >1 lengthening the hand of the Government in dealing with the boundary issue. The Commission is now taking oral evidence in Uulster and is nearing the time when it. must pronounce its finding. The Government’s election slogan will be “Not an inch.” The fact that Saturday had been tried and found wanting in Palmerston N., was held by one business man to prevent a change. He inferno d a ALT). Times reporter when the half-day was declared to he Saturday, the people raised a protest and in a. short while a reversion to Wednesday by a majority of 2 to 1. was occomplished. This in itself showed that the people did not want a change. “However,” he added, “when the poll is taken the remedy lies in flic hands of the people themselves. The women of Palmerston N. had the good sense last election to vote for Wednesday and T think they will Tie still of (lie same opinion this year. If. they want to shop on Saturday, they will see that this day is left free for them to do so.”