Manawatu Herald THURSDA ,JULY 1, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3505, 1 July 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDA ,JULY 1, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The rainfall for Hie month of June totalled 2.76 inches. Dining' the month rain fell on ten days, the maximum fall, .S 8 of an inch, being on the 14th.

The friends of Mr. C‘. Cunningham will regret to learn that lie is seriously ill in the Wellington Hospital. Latest reports are to the effect that he is making slight progress towards recovery.

An orange which, when cut open, is almost blood-red inside, is grown in Spain, and is regarded as a delicacy in Europe. A quantity of this variety were on sale in Foxton recently, hut purchasers looked upon them with suspicion. Nearly all boys who appear in the Auckland Juvenile Court are asked by Mrs Fcrner, associate member, if they belong (o football teams. If they say no; she tells them they should join a team of some-sort to keep them out of mischief/

Under the will of Mr. William Brown, who died recently at Reef - ton, the sum of £SOO is to be set aside on the death of his widow and the income therefrom paid to the Mayor of Hokitika and applied by him in providing Christmas cheer or 'comforts for poor orphan children or poor aged and infirm persons residing in and around the borough of Hokitika.

A meeting of representatives ol: the local tennis, football and bowling clubs was held in Perreau’s rooms last night to discuss a combined effort to assist in ground improvements. Mi'. McM.urray presided. It was decided to ask Mr. J. Linldater M.,P., to interview the Minister of Internal affairs re an art union and to await a reply before taking further action. Mr. C. H. Walls, an officer in the Levin telephone exchange, was recently married (says the Levin Chronicle), and on Tuesday his fellow officers met to wish Mr. and Mrs Walls a long and happy life. The Postmaster, Mr. B. Magee, in making the presentation of a silver tea-pot and silver-mounted sugar shaker, joined with the supervisor (Mr. J. B. Bateman) in expressing the good wishes of the staff. Mr. Wlnlls has been associated with the Levin Office for approximately three years, and is a very popular member of the staff. Bert as he is more familiarly known locally, was a. member of the local Post Office staff for a considerable time and is a local boy.

The editor of a Texas country newspaper recently moved into Dallas and deposited £IO,OOO in one of the local banks. He had been publishing his little country paper for thirty years, and had moved to the city with a round 50,000 dollars to his credit. When asked the secret of his great financial success he said; “I attribute my ability to retire with a £IO,OOO bank account after thirty years in the country newspaper field to close application to duty also hewing to the mark and letting the chips fall where they may, the most rigorous rules of economy, never spending a cent foolishly, everlastingly keeping at my job with a whole heart, and the death of an uncle who left me £0909 10s.” Melo Whitu, better known as “Moses,” who has been selected as one of the representatives of the Maori All Black team to visit Prance and Great Britain was born at Motuiti, Foxion, and is 2(1 years of age and married. “Moses” has been playing football in this district for many years and is recognised as one of the best backs in the district. Unlike some players, lie takes his football seriously and keeps fit. He is a member of the Foxton Football Club senior team, but owing to a minor accident through a fall from a bicycle, he was unable to play in several of the club’s earlier matches, but lias subsequently participated in rep. games and except for a slight cold is fit and well. He will accompany the team to Auckland on the 17th, where a match will be played aud the team leaves New Zealand on the 23rd.

The friends of Mrs G. Seadden will regret to learn that she is an inmate of the Palmerston N. Hospital.

Slight improvement is reported in the condition of Mr D. Gilbert, who is seriously ill in the Palmerston N. Hospital. Word has been received that Mr J. K. Hornblow has been elected unopposed to the position as southern representative on the Wanganui Education Board.

The vital stastics for the month of June are as follows, the figures for the corresponding period of last year being given in parenthesis: — Births 21 (24); deaths 4 .(4); marriages 2 (3). Maori: —Births 3 (1); marriages 1 (nil). Joaquin Lancaster (52) who was badly knocked about by a bull in the hold of the coastal steamer Gale at Wanganui on Wednesday last, succumbed to his injuries at the Wanganui public hospital on Saturday.

The quarterly return of . the local Magistrate’s Court is as follows: —Number of plaints entered, 48; total amount sued for, £422 3s Od; number of judgment summonses issued, 25; number of criminal cases against.males, 23; do., against females, 2; a total of 25. The Court siit seven times last quarter. “Say,” said the editor’s smart little son, as he entered the store, “do you keep knives?” “Oh yes,” responded the storekeeper, “we’ve kept them for years.” “Well,” returned the boy, starting for the door, “you ought to advertise, and then you wouldn’t keep ’em so long."

The Miners’ Eight Hours Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons after a stormy debate in which angry Labour members made a number of charges against the Government, including a suggestion that the Prime Minister had interfered with the Coal Commission’s report, says a Wellington message.

An old building which food for over sixty years, was recently pulled down to make room for a brick one. The building had been erected with two classes of timber, white pine and yellow pine. The former was quite riddled with the borer, : but the yellow pine was absolutely /sound and as good as the day it was cut.

Two accidents occurred at Mongolian at the latter end of last week. Mr. Chris Briscoe, who was engaged in the bush skidding logs, slipped and broke his ankle; while Mr. Geo. Delaney was struck by ft falling tree, receiving injuries to his foot and back necessitating his entry into the Palmerston North Hospital for treatment.

Few men have had the experience to have lived in the same room as a small fortune, and not to have discovered it. But an aged Chinese market gardener at Launceston, Tasmania, had such a fortunl for his room-mate for many years. When workmen were demolishing a misei able shanty in High Street,, Launceston, this week, two of tho workmen discovered an old hag. It was decaying, and when they picked it up they found that golden sovereigns hearing the dates from 1832 to 1902, numbering 508, fell through their lingers to the floor. In due course they handed them over to the police, who were astonished when the' Chinese denied that they were his property. They cannot find an owner for the fortune, which lias lain for so long undiscovered. The Chinese owner of the hut is not impressed. It is not his money, he says, so he is not curi-

A famous old London tavern is I lie Cheshire Cheese, situate in a lit 110 eourl off Fleet street. This house was a favourite haunt of Dr. Johnson, and his chair in the corner of (he eoyee room is still in evidence. Upstairs another quaint old room is set apart for smokers. Down its centre runs a long narrow table, on which are arranged at short intervals long “Churchwardon” day pipes. Generation of smokers dead and gone have “blown a cloud’’ in that old room. Here’s to the weed! So long as the quality is good it never does anybody any harm. On the contrary, it may prove highly beneficial. Most doctors will admit that. But they will tell you also that brands strong in nicotine are best avoided. It’s excess of nicotine that does the mischief when mischief results. New Zealand tobaccos arc the purest on the market. They are toasted, and in their relined state do not affect the heart or nerves. Try “Kiverhead Gold,” mild; “Navy Cut" (Bulldog), medium; or “(bit Plug No. 10" (Ballshead), full strength.*

Commenting on the raising of money by surprise packets for the Young Women’s Christian Association Building Fund, the Rev. A. M. Murray said in the address on art unions at Auckland on Sunday night: “Thousands no doubt have been drawn into the vortex of this gambling stream for the first time, and who can say where many of them will end? The Y.W.C.A. might just as well receive a dividend from the totalisator as receive money from art unions. Unless the directors of the Y.W.C.A. repudiate all the money raised in this way they have dragged the institution into the mire. They have held themselves up to the censure of every right-thinking Christian, and left an unenviable example for unborn generations to follow. If the direetors accept money received illegally, then they have quietly bowed God out of tVoil - institution, for God, believe me, will be' no party to such a thing.”

The first test cricket match between Australia and England has ended in a draw.

Mr J. S. Dickson, of Parnell, the Government Senior Wjhip, is to leave Auckland on September 15 to attend the annual conference of the Empire Parliamentary Association in Australia. A caucus of the Reform Party was held yesterday morning, and lasted for about two hours. Mr J. S. Dickson, Parnell, was re-elected .Senior Whip and Mr W. S. Glenn, Rangitikei, Junior Whip. Mr F. F. Hockley will he the new Chairman of Committees. The following are the names, of the local third grade seven-a-side team which won the competition at Levin at Easter and who were presented with their medals at the recent Football Club social: —A. Stevenson (Captain), G. Rankin, N. Ball, E. Cunningham, R. Hartley, W. Newth and 11. Ross.

The s.s. Tuiranga, which trades to Dargaville, can boast of a record which cannot probably 'be beaten by any other steamer in the world, viz., that of having had three successive generations "(grand father, father and son) in command of her: Captains Ross (grandfather), George Sellars (father), and Tom Sellars (son), who is at present in command of the trim little vessel and doing the job well.