Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2995, 6 February 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr. F. S. Easton and his son and the Misses Easton have left on a tour of the South Island.

The Presbyterian and Anglican Sabbath Schools will re-open tomorrow.

The Palmerston North Soldiers Memorial is to be unveiled by the Prime Minister to-morrow.

The engagement is announced of Miss Joyce Claris, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs Claris of Wellington and late of Foxton, to Mr, Ilorslmrgh, of Featherston. The Foxton friends of Mrs G. 11. Stiles, of “Woodlands,’ 7 Terrace End, will be pleased to'learn that Mrs Stiles, who underwent an operation on Thursday is progressing favourably. New York’s first eleetroeutioner, William Patterson, is dead. During his carreer he executed 54 persons, including Leon Czolgosz, the man who shot Prtsident McKinley in 1901

The Rangitikei bridge is to be redeeked and tar-sealed at a cost of £7OOO. The cost will" be borne by Highways Board (00 per eenl.) and the ivfanawnlu and Rangitikei County Councils (20 per cent, eaeli). The Whakaronga School pupils held their annual school picnic at the Beach yesterday. A party ol some 30 lo 40 persons was transported to the local resort by motor Jerry, while quite a number of private cars also made the trip.

A “Round Portugal’’ horse race, the course for Avhicli covered 1240 miles, has just ended at Lisbon, with the arrival of three of the competitors after a ride of twenty-six days. Several horses died en route, and several were lamed. The winning horse had to be taken straight to hospital, where it died a few hours later.

Arising out of the death of .Mrs. Emma Thorburn, 08 years of age, who was knocked down by a mo-tor-car in Newmarket on January 8, Margaret Ester Rogers was charged in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court with negligent driving'and causing the deatli of Mrs. lhorburn. Accused was committed for trial, bail being allowed in the stun of £IOO.

That bright little threepenny paper, “Humour” always keeps abreast of the times with its weekly feast of laughter culled from the world’s leading journals of wit. Here is a typical joke from the latest issue. First Lady (addressing a neighbour): “You rotund eolilhie, ferruginous, neuropathic cassowary, you!” Second Lady: “Blimey, you don’t ’arf fancy your blinkin’ langwidge since you’ve bin doin’ cross-word puzzles, don’t volt?”

A little pat on the back was given Napier by one of the visiting swimmers at the conclusion of a concert given by the Napier Band on the parade (says “The Telegraph’’). “I should like to compliment Napier on the respect shown the National Anthem,” he said. “It is quite a pleasure to see everyone standing perfectly still and the men uncovered. In the city, people begin to walk home the moment the National Anl'liein is started and it is quite a pleasure to see a crowd honouring the anthem with the respect it should be shown.”

A local resident informs us that unless he puls his dog on the chain when the big guns are fired at the camp it scampers away out of ear shot and remains away for, hours.

The school committee extend an invitation to parents and the public to attend the official opening of the District High School, which will take place at All Saints’ schoolroom on Tuesday afternoon next, at 2.30 o’clock. The Otaki Mail says that the Mayor (Mr. Brandon) and Mr. W. 11. Field M.P. are taking steps to prevent the closing of the Otaki cottage hospital. In this connection Mr. Field had a lengthy interview with the Minister of Health. A public meeting is to be held at Otaki to discuss the subject.

One of Messrs. Ross, Rough and Co. Ltd's lorries met with a mishap this morning. In making way for another lorry, heavily laden with hemp,- to pass on the incline leading up from the railway station the vehicle pulled over too near the fence and as a result the wheels became embedded in the soft soil and it was sometime before it could lie extracted.

At the Otaki S.M. Court on Thursday, George Newman, charged with negligently driving a motorlorfv on main road Waikanae on December Bth, was convicted and fined £3 and costs. The ease arose out of a collision on the Waikanae bridge when defendant’s lorry collided with a motor-ear driven by Mr. Tongs, of Foxton, and as a result of the accident Mr. Tong’s son was injured and the car damaged.

Two prisoners, Walile and Rattrov, escaped from Rangitoto prison on Monday. It appears that after midnight, the two men crept silently from their hut, and made their way to the water’s edge. A bright moon assisted them to find a dinghy and in this craft they made good their escape. They fitted this boat with an outboard motor taken from another boat. It was not until some hours later that the warders found the total of twelve prisoners had been depleted.

Detective Gourley, of Wanganui, who has just retired to go into private practice, has had a final word to say in connection with the murder mystery which so seroiusly disturbed Wanganui a couple of years ago, when Mrs Oates was killed. Now that Detective Gourley has retired from the police force it can be slated (says a special correspondent) that he held certain views on the matter that were entirely at variance with those of his brother officers. Right to the day that Detective Gourley resigned, he has never let up on that particular case, and a couple of months ago he made an extended search in the King Country, with a result that at the moment cannot be disclosed. Still, Detective Gourley is still confident. that that particular mystery will be eventually solved.

An amusing (to t'he onlookers) but rather terrifying experience is related in connection with the visit of Wirth’s menagerie to Masterton. A couple of ladies were admiring one of the big' elephants. One said: “I wonder if Ins skin is hard and leathery or soft to the touch.” “Put your hand on him and find out,” said the other. Lady number one timidly put her hand on the huge foreleg of the giant beast. Ulith, it is declared, a “naughty little twinkle in his eye,” the elephant at once gently clasped the lady with his trunk round her dainty skin-coloured stockings, and she fell to the ground with a shriek of alarm. The elephant immediately lot go, and went on reaching out for apples or peanuts. The experimenter is still unable to say whether an elephant's skin is soft or hard; nor is the elephant any more communicative as to the fineness or otherwise of the lady’s lower limbs. —Carterton News.

You have tried toasted bread, toasted bacon, toasted cheese, and possibly toasted kidneys, and know how good they all are. But have you ever smoked toasted tobaccos? The toasting process, as you know, develops flavour in the case of alj the above mentioned edibles —and it has precisely (he same effect in the case of tobacco. You can easily satisfy yourself as to the truth of this assertion because our New Zealand grown tobaccos are all toasted. That is one reason why they appeal so strongly to smokers. Another reason is that they contain (comparatively) but little nicotine, and may consequently he smoked all day long without producing those unpleasant effects that frequently follow the prolonged smoking of imported tobaccos, all of them (more or less) loaded with nicotine. For a cool, sweet, and fragrant smoke try Riverhead Gold mild, Navy Cut (Bulldog label) medium, or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head) full strength. There is no mischief in any of these brands, and (lie rapidly increasing demand for them is the most convincing proof of their popularity.

“The night was noisy with sneezes.” —Pough.

Annoying and persistent summer chills can he quickly remedied with Baxter’s Lung Preserver. For 59 years “Baxter’s” lias been New Zealand’s sovereign antidote for all coughs, eold.s, and other bronchial affections. It is a rich, penetrative specific that gels to the root of all throat and chest troubles and gives quick relief. Also splendid tonic. At all chemists and stores. Gen-erous-sized bottle 2/0. 1.

The Rev. F, and Mrs McDonald returned from a holiday visit to north Taranaki yesterday. Mr. McDonald said the camping out at Tongaporutu was most enjoyable. The locality provides fine scenery, and facilities for bathing, boating and sea fishing.

The roll of the secondary department of the local district High School has been augmented by the addition of the following pupils: — Marshall Moffat, Lindsay Moffat, (both of whom attained their proficiency at Oroua Downs School last year). Olga York (an expupil of the Palmtrston North Girls’ High School). The roll number now totals 39. Enrolment may still be made.

During the next session of Parliament will be a movement in the direction of getting Kapiti Island thrown open as a holiday resort. The islad abounds with good camping spots with ideal facilities for fishing and bathing. At present the island is a sanctuary for native Horn and avifauna. At least a great portion of it is still owned by natives, and during the holiday months this area is largely visited by people from the mainland. There has been a growing feeling (states an exchange) that Kapiti Island has not been a success as a haven for native bird life, and it is felt that were it made available as a holiday resort, it would be largely visited by people from Wanganui, Rangitikei, Manawatu and 'Wellington district. The matter has been represented to several members of Parliament, with a view to having the present restrictive legislation removed.

That New Zealand girls are not pleasure mad, as some folk would have the world believe, is shown by the successful pluck and ambition of Miss Muriel Frazer, of Ngatawa School, Marton. On the verge of examinations she had set her heart on passing, she was seized with an attack of appendicitis. She tried, with the assistance of her medical adviser, to stay off an operation till after she had- done her papers, but an immediate operation became imperative. Nothing daunted she took her books with her to hospital, and continued her studies in bed. She got out- of hospital on the 12th day ufter the operation, and “sat” for her examination in bed on the 13th day, successfully passing her matriculation and solicitor’s general knowledge examinations at the age of 17.