LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2948, 13 October 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A frost of 8A degrees was experienced in Masterton on Wednesday night. At last nights Council meeting accounts amounting to £789 13s 8d were passed for payment.

They say that Eos ton has always given a majority vote for Prohibition. After Hon. Crawford Vaughan’s address to-night the major-ity-vote should be greater than ever. The Mayor will preside.* A Shannon lady visiting Levin this week dropped her handbag Which contained £2O in money and other articles. The 'bag was later found in a gravel pit, but the money was missing.

Influenza is very prevalent in all the Maori pas throughout the Waikato, according to a report submitted to the meeting this week of the Waikato Hospital Board.

Through an avalanche at Mount Cook, the Ball Hut, fourteen miles from the Hermitage, was swept away. This hut was at a height of 3402 feet and was built by the Government in 1891 on the site of the Rev. Green’s fifth camp. The liquor trade is telling you that under Prohibition your homes will be searched. What it really is afraid of is that the results of license will be examined and found wanting. The ex-Premicr of South Australia will help you in that overdue examination to-night at 8 o’clock.*

The local Post and Telegraph line gang, assisted by men from the P, & T. Department, Palmerston N., arc at present engaged in re-laying the existing underground telephone wires. The old cable is being taken up and a larger one, which will contain a sufficient number of wires to fulfil local wants for the next twenty years, is being laid down in its place.

A stir has been caused in newspaper and journalistic circles in Auckland by a rumour that another daily evening paper is to be started in the Queen City of the north. The rumour (says an exchange) is taken seriously in Auckland, and it is suggested that a good deal of Canterbury capital will be found for (he venture. It is also reported tiiat the new company proposes to acquire a South Island journal, the purchase price running into six heavy.”

A system under which business houses may establish direct telephone communication between separated premises without obtaining collection through a telephone exchange is announced in the “Gazette.’’ It is provided that at any place where, in the opinion of the chief teleraph engineer, departmental circuits or existing poles or telephone cables can conveniently be provided for the purpose of establishing direct communication between places of business, such circuits can be leased and maintained by the department af annual rates based on the type of circuit provided

A. remarkable coincidence is recorded in Oamarn (says the “North Otago Times”). Some years ago a son of Air. W. D. Burns met with a serious bicycle accident. He was picked up in an unconscious condition by Mr. W. Crombie. A few months ago another son of Mr. Burns was rendered unconscious in a fall from a bicycle. He was also picked up by Mr Crombie. Still more remarkable is the fact that Mr. Burns himself was knocked off a bicycle on Saturday night last and rendered unconscious, and Mr. Crombie was again the first person to appear upon the scene and to give assistance.

Tt is curious how smokers will “fancy” some of their pipes and fail to “take” to others. If is not a question of cost, either. J. M. Barrie, an inveterate smoker, has quite a collection of pipes and some of (hem arc valuable. And yet one of his greatest favourites is a little wooden “nose-warmer” for which he gave fourpenee! Tastes in tobacco vary in the same way. Some smokers use only the most expensive brands while others find ordinary plug or even common shag more to their liking. The flavour appeals to them. But talking—or rather writing —about flavour, have you tried the New Zealand grown tobaccos? The leaf contrary to the usual practice, is toasted, and this imparts a peculiarly delicious flavour. These tobaccos, moreover, contain very little nicotine and are consequently comparilively harmless. They are manufactured in various strengths to suit all tastes “Riverhead Gold” is mild aromatic. “Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog label) medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bull’s Head) full (la.vouroured. They are meeting with a big sale.*

After Prohibition came into force in U.S.A. the consumption of milk went up 60 per cent., and of butter by 25,000,000 lbs. Get your share of that £8,000,000 now swallowed bv the trade, and hear Crawford Vaughan’s experience of 18 months in America —to-night at Town Hal! at 8 p.m.*

A sharp shock of earthquake was felt locally at 9.45 p.m. on Satur-

A reminder is given that Hon. Crawford Vaughan will deliver a lecture on Prohibition in the Town Hall to-night. During the month 44 head of stock were impounded and driving fees to the amount of £1 8s Od collected.

Mr. E. Cunningham, an employee at Mr. R. N. Speirs’ timber yards, received a nasty cut over the eye this morning. It apepars that he was in the act of putting a belt on some machinery, when the stick he was using for the purpose was knocked out of his hand and struck him across the eye, inflicting a cut that necessitated the insertion of three stitches. The ladies of the Presbyterian Social Club and P.W'.M.U. held a social afternoon, Cake and Apron Fair in the Sunday schoolroom on Friday last. No doubt the boisterous weather was the means of keeping many people away, but there was a fair attendance and the object in view was successful. Piano solos by Mrs McLaren and Miss Ida Speirs and songs by Mrs Downes and Miss Mollie Downes were much appreciated by all present. The apron stall was in charge of Mesdames Downes and Satherley, cake stall: Mesdames A. Ross and McLaren, afternoon tea: Mesdames McEwen, Newton, and J. Ross.