Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 30th, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2903, 30 June 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 30th, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Colonial Sugar Company announces a further reduction of £1 per ton on all erodes of raw and refined sugar.

Included in the iisl of promotions approved by His Excellency, I lie Governor-General, just issued are Alexander Maxwell Gardiner, of the (ith X.Z. Mounted Riltes (Manawatu), promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, and A. .J. Buchanan (Bth Kidd Battery), The Regiment of X.Z. Artillery, promoted to 2nd Lieutenant'.

Southland is experiencing an extremely line winter and the farmers want rain. On Saturday fourteen degrees of frost were recorded and a large number of tans burst, over a million and a-ha 1 f gallons of water being lost. In order to con serve the supply the witter had to lie out off iu some parts of the town.

A blade of a safety razor that had been left near the wash basin and became attached to the soap was responsible or a recent accident to a Karori resident. He inllielod on his arm a wound about four inches long and nearly half an inch deep, through taking up the soap and rubbing it along his arm in the ordinary course of ablutions.

Reports of heavy damage by Hood come again from the north. The Whakatane district has suffered very severely, the llood there being the worst since 1 !)(>(». A desolate scene is revealed by the subsidence of the water. The Waikato River is in Hood and still rising. '.Mercer and district are experiencing the worst floods recorded there for several years.

An interesting timl, in the shape of a large Maori adze, has boon made by Mr Charles Kyles on the reserve near the Wairau Bar. The adze, made of Hint, weighs 11 jibs, and is said to be one <»f the largest yet unearthed in New Zealand. It is a. particularly line specimen of Maori eraftmanship. The implement was probably used or intended, for boat-building purposes.

You may possess the constitution of a lion, yet it will avail you nought if you allow nicotine to poison your system. To smoke strong tobacco, heavily charged with nicotine, is nothing bill a slow process of poisoning. It almost invariably cuds in nerve trouble and smoker's heart, or in the weakening of the eyesight. Now that a treatment has been discovered to neutralise the effect of nicotine you need no longer run any risk. Toasted tobaccos are absolutely safe. You may smoke them continuously without the slightest after effects. The first whiff will tell yon that you are in for a superior article- —so smooth and mellow,, in pleasing contrast with the crude product from oversea. Toasting is a refining process for the specific purpose of developing the aroma and ejecting the detrimental properties contained in the raw leaf. The effect is simply astonishing and smokers are advised lo try any one of the following brands: Riverhead (odd, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; and Cut King No. .1.0 (Bullshcad), full. All are toasted. HO.