Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2997, 11 February 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Swimming bath’s committee will be held in the Town Hall supper-room at 8 o’clock this evening.

A baby girl, daughter of Mrs Hannken, of Mount Albert, Auckland has been admitted to the hospital in a very serious condition in 'consequence of having swallowed caustic soda. The death occurred at Feilding on Sunday of Mr. John Graham in his 84th year. He was born in Nelson, which constituency he represented in the New Zealand Parliament for 18 years, and held many public positions on local bodies in Nelson.

A daring burglary was committed at Taupo in the early hours of Monday morning when over £IOO in notes and several small articles of jewellery were removed from rooms of visitors staying at the Terraces’ hotel. It was not until after daylight that anything- was known to be amiss.

The appointments are gazetted of Inspector W. G. Woiilmann and In spector A. T. Emerson to l>e Superintendanls; Sub-Inspector J. Holis and Sub-Inspector T. S. G. Kemp to be Inspectors: and SeniorSergeant Harvey (late of Dannevirke) to be a Sub-lnspeetor of the New Zealand Police Force. The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. J. G. Coates, anived at Napier to-day en route to the Native gathering at Wamwatatini. The proceedings there on Tuesday and Wednesday next week will include —beside the consecration of the church. erected as a memorial to boys who fell in the war —the opening of a Maori dairy factory, and of a new bridge over the Waiapu.

A resident of No. 2 Line informs us that several settlers in the locality have recently suffered at the hands of “moonlighters.” His orchard was robbed and a neighbour’s potato patch visited. Our informant also stated that a number of young cockrels were stolen from his poultry run. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police.

The travelling public will he pleased t<> learn that the Kairanga County Council has decided to place a loan before the ratepayers for the construction of a bridge in concrete to replace the wooden structure at Awapimi. The cost of the new bridge will he approximately £IOOO. The present bridge is dangerous to traverse at other than a very slow pace and has been the cause of many broken motor-car springs.

The dead body of a man named James Morrisey, of Shamrock St., Palmerston North, was found in a house in Taonui Street on Tuesday. Deceased, who was as ingle man, aged about 40, was carpenter Inoccupation, and since Sunday had been living with a Mr. and Mrs. Cook, at 34 Taonui Street. The former last saw Morrisey alive at about 7.40 on Tuesday, and upon returning home at 12.20 that afternoon he discovered deceased’s body on a couch in the kitchen. A bottle supposed to contain poison was found near the body.

At the final sitting of the Buckley Drainage Commission, the Chairman (Mr. T. A. Johnston) asked Mr. A. Ross, of Foxton, if he would care to express ail opinion regarding the influence of flood waters on the yellow leal' disease in flax. “I do not consider anyone is competent to express an opinion,” replied Mr. Ross, “as yellow leaf is found everywhere more or less, but flooded areas are not, as a rule, quite so badly affected as land immune from floods. The general opinion is that yellow leaf is dying out and is not to be taken seriously in future flax operations.

The petition of Mr. J. O’Brien in connection with the Westland election will be heard at Greymouth on Bth March. The friends of Mrs Baker, of Union Street, will be pleased to learn that she returned home last week, after being an inmate in the Palmerston N. Hospital for some time, in which institution she underwent an operation a while back. As a result of falling on a bollard of a punt, Mr W. Young, employed on the Manawatu River Service, sustained a fractured rib last month. We are pleased to report that Mr Young will be able to resume his work cm Monday. There was a large attendance of local and district residents at Messrs Wirtli Bjjok. circus, which was held on Easton Park last night, despite somewhat unfavourable weather. The programme submitted met with general approval and was much appreciated by all. The outstanding feature of the show was the performance of the trained seals, which was particularly fine. Somehow smoking seems to fit in with all moods. ID a fellow is feeling hipped as the result of ‘‘hacking the wrong ’un,” or having a difference of opinion with his boss or anything like that, lie flies for consolation to tobacco. If, cm the other band, he has bad a bit of luck —been remembered in somebody’s will, or had a “rise,” for instance—his first thought is his pipe, and lie pulls it out and lights up. The great tiling is to see your baccy is good and does not reek with nicotine like so many of those imported brands. It’s the nicotine that causes all the trouble. About the purest tobaccos are those grown in New Zealand. They contain only a little nicotine —that’s why they may be smoked all the time without doing any damage to your constitution. And they are famous for flavour and fragrance. Ask your tobacconist for “Riverhead Gold,” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bullsbead), full. You can’t go wrong with these brands. Tliev are all toasted.*