Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 20th, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2899, 20 June 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 20th, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Brisbane cable stales 1li:i 1 millions c>T mice are devasling llm mai/e crops in tlit* Soniii Burnet: disl rir-t. Efforts nt ;innilnh) till" the pest have so fnr been futile. A Normanby resident bail an unusual experience recently (says Ibo llawera Star). Ho was top-dres-sing a paddock with ba.sic slag when out of till! manure distributor came four pairs of best quality cashmere snides. A piece of brown paper followed later. The socles were quite undamaged. It is estimated that to procure llie BSI tons of honey produced this season on the West Coast, the bees (lew 4,480,000 miles collecting nectar (says the “(i rev River Argus”), and probably an additional quarter of the distance was occupied carrying water and pollen. The load carried by a hoc is ! -.400th of an ounce.

The si til ionnmst er at Levin (.Mr Wilson) has received advice from the District, Manager that in fit I hit tin- np Napier express will slop a! Levin every day, as promised by the .Minister oL' Railways a! the recent protest- meeting;. The additional train will be available Iroia Monday next and will leave Levin at 11. Ml a.in.

The forthcoming concert of the Eoxton Choral Society, to be held at the end of this month, gives every promise of being an even greater success than the Society's last concert. The Committee has been fortunate in securing for the next concert a few of Wanganui’s leading vocalists, two of which are professional singers. The full programme will be published in our issue of next Saturday. Chorus members are notified that every member must attend the next two practices.

An outback settlei at Waiau, Southland, states that when he rose the other morning and looked out ot the window he counted 1!) deer in his turnip crop. He was soon trailing- along the edge of I tic bush with his rilie and he bagged seven of the invaders. A raid on hi.-, crops is a serious matter to the outback

settler, as lie is very largely dependent on what he grows himself to feed hisyslock during I lie winter months, and deer are notoriously rank feeders when they get loose in a turnip crop.

There is a probability of a. large glass-making industry bemg started in Ashburton the company using silica, from Mount Somers. The Southern (Voss Class Company, the main shareholders of which arc in the North Island, has a site under option in the northern end of the town (says the Caardian). The original suggestion was to build llie works at Mount Somers, but an objection |o this was that accommodation would have to be found for some 4000 men, whereas in Ashburion the men could liml their own houses. The Mount Somers glass sand is considered by the company tu be the best in the w oi'ld.

In accordance with tin- new code of Canon Law, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington, which embraces the districts of Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Wairarapa, and the West Coast, as far as Reefton, has been divided into six districts of deaneries, and each district, or deanery will be under llie control ol' a Vicar Korane. The Vicar Korane will visit each parish within bis district and make a report of such visitation |o the ArchArchbishop Redwood has appointed bishop. In bis ollicc he has also certain other administrative powers within his district. His Grace bishop Redwood has appointed Very Rev. Eat her James McManus as Viced' Korane for the Manawatu and Wanganui Deanery, comprising the parishes of Palmerston North, Wanganui, Marlon. Taihape, Ohakune, Podding, Eoxton, Levin and Ulaki.

The ‘‘Herald" staff desires to acknowledge wedding favours from Mr and Mrs •!. Lynch.

A horse over 40 years of age — prohah!v tiie oldest in the Dominion —died at To Kuiti the oilier day. The faithful old animal had carried three generation to school, and for over a decade carried the local paper between Pa tea and Waverley after bis school work was done, a distance there and back of over 20 miles. ,\ golf accident which demonstrates the dangers of driving on to players or of players not taking note of approaching competitors was demonstrated somewhat unhappily at Rotorua (says the Uhronirle). A lady player had rnllid another through and was •■limbing llie bank at No. 5 on the local links, when a ball struck her on the hack of the neck, with the result that she was rendered insensible. She was carried to Mr. Banks’s residence, and after a v. bile was able to be taken to town by motor car. No serious results are anticipated, but it points to the necessity of regarding a golf ball in flight as a very dangerous missile.

The aquarium building at the New Zealand and South Sens Exhibit ion is well under way, and the directors expect to have it finished and in running order well in advance of the opening date of the exhibition. Specimens of large lii'li and deer heads are alreadv

arriving, and a good exhibit of this class'is promising in addition to the live lish in the tanks. To make this portion of the exhibit more interesting to those possessing mounted deer beads, etc,, the directors have decided to award at least six gold medals for the best -p. eimeiis of mounted game exliii>bed at llie aquarium. It is fully expected that local sportsmen will forward pb-nty of specimens for exhibition so that the overseas \ isitur mav gain an idea of the wonderful game resources in Now Zealand. Why is smoking so often atlend- . ii with result- that cause medical men to order their patients to either dscoiitinnc the habit, or greatly ■ : "dify ii. It is simply because the !oentage of nicotine in most imi•: |i-il tobaccos is so high and it is if' nicotine exctj.s that renders making injurious. Now, our New Zealand grown tobaccos contain ■ small a percentage of nicotine ia I it is practically a negligible ■oinil-ity. and besides, they are . .hj ci*tml to ;i new toasting pro- , Toasting develops the llav- ■ removes nil deleterious properties and makes the tobacco chic proof. Toasted tobacco is commended to those who study '..ic lieahii ami appreciate a pure ■ bacco. If you like a full body cut Ring No. 10 the Bullhead b.hcl. or the somewhat milder Toas■i! Now (it| (Bulldog), ’there is . o ther brand Riverhead Gold. hi.-h excels all others in mildness .ml aroma. They may lie smoked . ::h impunity and cost 25 per cent. ' - th.-n the foreign lines. 4