LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3008, 9 March 1926, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As a result of' a conference between the Prime Minister and Canterbury representatives, it has been decided to electrfy the Lyttelton tunnel.

At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, Wlilliam Candy was lined £lO and Hector Hunt and Andrew McEwan each £5 and costs for ill-treating horses.

The annual meeting of the Poxton Rugby Football Club will be held in the Town Hall Supper-room on Friday evening next. All players and others interested are requested to attend

“My wife,” said Sir James Parr at a function at Palmerston last week, “has been a source of inspiration and help to me in every public duty which 1 have undertaken.” (Applause). Every public man, lie stated, needed the sympathy and support of a good wife.

Passenger fares on Hie Aorangi and Niagara, between Auckland and Sydney, are to be increased by £2 to regulate the bookings, the mail steamers being almost invariably crowded, while ordinary steamers could carry more comfortably.

The inquest concerning the death of the twin children of Septimus Page, who were the victims of the sad tragedy at Clevedon, on Thursday, opened on Frdav and after evidence of identification had been given by Nurse Urodie, the inquiry was adjourned sine die.

Four side show proprietors at the Franklin Show were convicted and lined £lO each and costs in tho Pukekohe Police Court for conducting games of chance at the show. Three defendants conducted the “dart game,” and one a game known as “box ball.”

While riding a motor-cycle near Shannon on Saturday Stanley James Fowler, aged 31 years, a labourer, of Mangahao, fell from the machine and sustained a fractured leg. He was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital, and his condition is reported as being satisfactory. “Among inland towns that I have visited during my six years of office Palmerston lias been active, goahead, and fast progressive. I prophecy that in future Palmerston will be one of the great inland cities of New Zealand. Its superb situation in the North Island must bring about a growth in wealth and population.”—Sir James Parr, at Palmerston North. Some Maoris do not always manage to express themselves in just the way they intend. Sister Nicholls (Maori deaconess) told the Methodist Conference of a Maori who, lying ill in hospital, asked for the nurse with the soft-looking- face. In those terms, but with the same meaning that the Maori intended, she could say to the conference: “You are the softest-looking lot I have ever seen.” (Loud and prolonged laughter). A story of how two gallons of beer saved a valuable motor-ear from destruction is told by a Thames farmer. He was returning from Thames in a five-scater car, with a passenger in the front seat, who failed to notice the escape of burning tobacco from'his pipe. When near Koup a fire, fanned -by a strong breeze, rapidly covered the upholstery in the back seat and began to burn furiously. There was no water available so the owner unhesitatingly applied the contents of a two-gallon keg of beer with such good effect that the (ire was put out and the car saved. Advertiser wants trapped rabbits in any quantity.

Miss Symons, of Wellington, is paying a brief visit to Foxton and is the guest of her sister, Mrs C. Robinson, Lady’s Mile. Miss Symons intends visiting Hawke’s Bay before returning to Wellington.

Exceptional interest is being evinced in the election of a licensing committee for the Ohinemuri electorate, in view of the restoration of license houses in that district. No less than twenty-two candidates have been nominated, and the election, which takes place to-morrow, will doubtless occasion great enthusiasm. Of the candidates Waihi contributes nine, and Paeroa six. The Prohibition party has not nominated a “ticket,” but three of the candidates are prominent advocates of no-license. Nearly fifteen thousand people packed themselves into Atheletic Park on Saturday, to be present at the last appearance of the American athletes in Wellington, and to see the final mile between Rose and Hahn. Rose defeated Hahn, Scholtz distinguished himself by

brilliant sprinting, and Hahn lowered the New Zealand record for 1000 yards. Before the crowd dispersed, it rose, and gave three cheers for the Americans, who are recognised as two of the finest sportsmen who ever set foot in the country. Cheers were given for Rose, also.

A party of Druids who were camped for the week-end at Kapiti, had some unexpected excitement while fishing off the North Beach the other morning (says the Levin Chronicle). Mr. W. B. Macintosh', of Levin, had his line baited for sehnapper and while pulling in after getting a bite was surprised to get a second bite but this time something that put up a bigger fight than a sehnapper. After playing his fish up and down the beach for a considerable time it was eventually landed and proved to be a mako shark 10 feet long and weighing 495 llis. The mouth opened to the extent of Hi inches, displaying five rows of teeth.

The Manchester Street (Feilding) school team again won the McKelviet Shield for primary schools within a radius of 20 miles of Sandon at the Sandon sports on Saturday. The Rongolea school was the runner-up. Mr. P. Jackson, headmaster, in accepting the shield, paid a compliment to the Rongotea school team, and expressed the hope that all schools within the area would compete next year, as such competitions engendered a true sporting spirit among the boys. Mr. Jackson is an ex-master of the Foxton School and during his mastership, the school won the distinction of district premiership in seven-a-side football. In conversation with our representative Mr. Jackson expressed the hope that his old school would be represented at next year’s competition.

The* laie Mr. Thomas Lind, who died in a private hospital at Palmerston North on Saturday at the age of 75 years, was a native of Denmark, having come out to New Zealand when but a young man of 19 years. On arrival in the colony he lirsf settled in the Napier district, and following a period in which he was engaged in contracting work on the main road over the Rimntakas, lie came to the Manawatu, where he has since resided. For some years lie followed the occupation of blacksmith and wheelwright. at Foxton, later removing to Shannon, where he transferred his activities from his former trade to that of (he flaxmilling industry. Throughout his life he took a keen interest in the Druids’ order and was the founder of the Shannon Lodge, while he was also closely connected with the Lind Lodge at Tokomaru, the title of the lodge being alloted in compliment to Mr. Lind. The interrnient took place at Palmerston North yesterday.

Why should a man who is careful to wear and use only Empire products, continually cram his pipe full of American Tobacco? Keep the money in the country by smoking our very own tobacco, grown in New Zealand. Try it, and you will be delighted with its unequalled mildness and smooth and mellow smoking properties, due to the small percentage of neotine and to the toasting process to which the tobacco has been subjected. This makes for health, since excess in .nicotine has a very bad influence on (he heart and nerves. Once the smoker gets accustomed to the pure tobacco flavour of the local product, he will reject alt foreign brands with their adulterations and he will

awaken to the fact that lie can get a better article grown and manufactured in his own country, for less money. Those who like a full body should try Cut Plug No. 10 the Bullhead label, or the somewhat milder Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) vastlv different from the non-toast-ed imported brands, while Riverhead Gold excels all others in mildness and aroma.*