LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3009, 11 March 1926, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A meeting of all willing to extend practical sympathy to Mr. 11. Reid, Town Hall caretaker, will be held in All Saints’ Church this evening.

James Shaw, about 35 years of age, was admitted to the Palmerston Hospital on Tuesday suffering from concussion. He Jiad been riding a horse, and was thrown from his mount, striking his head heavily on the ground.

At the conclusion of the local Masonic Lodge meeting on Tuesday night, R. Wior. Bro. -J. A. Nash, on behalf of the local brethren, presented Bro. J. S. Ilornblow with a pipe and case as a mark of esteem on his joining the ranks of the benedicts. After conferring musical honours the recipient, suitably acknowledged the gift and the kindly sentiments expressed.

During the week end a large gathering of representatives of the native tribes of the North and South Island assembled at the Pollute Pah on the banks of the Manawatu river at Moutoa, the occasion being the opening of the new meeting house, which was performed by the Rev. Tuturu, of Taupo. It is estimated that between 400 and 500 natives were present.

William Lowe, aged 23, admitted in the Auckland Magistrate's Court on Tuesday that he altered a credit entry in a Post .Office Savings Bank book from £3 to £3OO, and was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court. It was stated that the bank was not defrauded of the money, though accused was on the way to obtain £IOO from the account.

The funeral of the late Mr. William Campbell, who was accidentally killed at Shannon on Thursday, took place at the Palmerston North Cemetery on Saturday. Some 40 cars conveyed those who had gathered to pay their last respects to the memory of the deceased, while a wealth of floral emblems testified to the esteem in which he was held. A number of comrades acted as pall bearers, while among those pr</mnl were members of the .Makerna Drainage Board. The service at the graveside was performed by Rev. W. Dent,

The ingenuity of a Napier child was demonstrated recently (slates the “Telegraph”) when the youngest daughter of a well-known Napier business man dropped a sixpence down the grating of one of Napier’s leading hotels. Not a whit dismayed she went first to a shop and bought some chewing gum, which she masticated to a slate of Idickiness, and then borrowed a walking stick from one of her father’s friends. The chewing gum being placed on the end of the stick and the latter being lowered through the grating, the ingenious child solved the problem of how quickly to recover lost property.

The velocity of the gale which raged during yesterday morning’s fire, carried showers of sparks fully a quarter of a mile from the burning Town Hall, and several residents were kept busy protecting their dwellings from the burning fragments. Toasted tobacco is the last woi'd in the manufacture of the fragrant weed. Its process is based upon science, and just exactly as people prefer their food cooked, they will now prefer their tobacco toasted. Toast is certainly wliolesomer then soggy bread, and the same principle applies to tobacco. Take for instance the locally-ma-nufactured brands. They are all toasted and consequently more pleasing to the palate, besides there is less nicotine in them, and t hat is a matter of importance, inasmuch as any excess of nicotine absorbed by the system may seriously affect the nerves or cause smoker’s heart and weakening soght. Smokers should, therefore, not fail to give this tobacco a trial; there is a this tobacco a trial; there is a vast difference between toasted and non-toasted tobacco, and they will find it is all in favour of the toasted. Obtainable in three strengths, Riverhead Gold, very mild and aromatic; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium, and Cut Plug No. 10 is recommended to those who prefer a full body.*