LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3018, 1 April 1926, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

All local business places will be closed from to-night until Tuesday morning.

A party of local sportsmen intend to visit Pirinoa next week on a deer-stalking expedition. Malcolm Mason, the son of Mr. F. A. Mason, headmaster of the local State School, sustained slight concussion through falling from a tree while playing yesterday afternoon. The following local people have recently returned from a visit to the Dunedin Exhibition: —Mr and Mrs S. Austin, Air and Airs P. Easton, Aiiss Hart and Aiessrs R. Hornblow and Jas. Ross.

A shop dajp is bein'*: held to-day in aid of the funds of St. Mary’s Convent school. Some good bargains are being offered in poultry and dairy produce. Mrs. Proctor senr., of Jenks St., celebrated her 87th birthday to-day and enjoys comparatively good health. The old lady has lived 51 years in Foxton. Her grand-chil-dren number lib.

While speaking at a function in Wellington, yesterday, Sir W. HallJones said it was not Kef or m, but Mr. Coates, who won the last general election. ‘‘There is one fellow who does not agree with you,” interjected Mr. Coates. “He wrote to me the other day and said ‘you went up like a. skyrocket and you’ll come down like a stone.’ ” The many friends of Mrs Alex Speirs senr., will be pleased to learn that her health has shown marked improvement during the past few days. Mrs Speirs has been undergoing special treatment in Palmerston during the past-few weeks. We join with her many friends in the hope that she will soon be restored to her normal health.

Michael Quinlan, 38, suspected some time of being an opium dealer, was seen at Wellington entering a Chinaman’s shop by a constable, lie denied having any opium, but search produced four tins in -his pockets. Yesterday Quinlan was fined £4O for being illegally in possession of opium, in default six weeks’ imprisonment.

“New Zealand is destined to become the purebred stock farm of the world,” declared Mr. G. Finn at a meeting of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The Dominion was already exporting purebred animals, he said, and he felt- confident that this trade would quickly be built up to a much greater extent. New Zealand did not require to import bulls for, price for price, there were better bulls in the Dominion than in any other country.

“Hail Season of mist and maladies” —Anon.

The approach of the -cold days makes necessary the need for protection against chills and influenza. A bottle of Baxter’s Lung Preserver is your best health insurance against such chest, throat and lung troubles.

“Baxter’s” is rich, warming, penetrative, dependable. Also possesses tonic properties. Generoussized bottle 2s (id, family size 4s 0(1. All chemists and stores.

The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Limited, have ordered from Swan, Hunter and Wigliam Richardson, Limited, ol Wallsend-on-Tyne, a 20,000-ton motor ship, 000 feet long. The vessel is destined for the Panama-New Zealand service. The Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, Limited, of Govan, is building a sister ship.

At a meeting of the council of (he N.Z.A.A.A. a cablegram was received from Philadelphia from which it was gathered rhut there was a likelihood of Nurmi competing against Rose there. It seemed that Nurmi would be in Philadelphia at the time the American championships took place, but as there was nothing definite in the communication it was decided to reply asking for further particulars.

English newspapers comment on the remarkable series of sports victories Cambridge.has won over Oxford, including the boat race, atheletic sports, rugby, golf, boxing and billiards, though it was predicted that Oxford would sweep the boards with the aid of the Rhodes scholars, who are the pick of the Dominion and American talent. Some critics say that too many motor cars at Oxford are making training slack. Interviewed at Napier, A. E. Cooke, the All Black centre threequarter, emphatically denied the statement recently published in England to the effect that he had been offered and had accepted an invitation to join the New Zealand League team to tour England in the coming season. Cooke made it perfectly clear that lie had not the slightest intention of playing the League code. He will continue to play Rugby and for the ensuing season will play in Hawke’s Bay. It is the roasting of coffee-ber-ries that results in the development of the exquisite flavour so much appreciated hv coffee-drinkers. 9hat is well known. But it is not so well known that our New Zealand-grown tobaccos are now subjected to the same roasting or toasting process, and with the same result. The flavour is brought fully out, while at the same time the deleterious properties of the tobacco are destroyed. All tobaccos, no matter where "Town, have this in common —that I hey contain nicotine, some more, some less. And it is thiss poison that is chiefly responsible for the sufferings of those who indulge too freely in the use of the tragi ant weed'. Heart and general nerves are generally affected and often the eyesight. Scientists now tell us that toasting neutralises part of the nicotine and that toasted tobaccos may, therefore, he smoked with impunity. They recommend Riverhead Gold," mild and aromatic; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium strength; and the full bodied Cut. plug No. 10 (Bullhead label). All are toasted.*