Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3512, 17 July 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The adjourned meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday evening. R. Reed is the premier jockey of the Dominion for the 1925-26 season, with 77\ wins. Reed was also the leading horseman for the previous season.

By proclamation in Thursday's Gazette land required by the Railway Department for the proposed deviation at Palmerston North has been taken.

The Manawatu County Council at its last meeting, turned down a request from the Feilding Borough Council to contribute'towards the maintenance of an ambulance for the Feidling district. Mr. Vosper celebrated his 91st birthday at the residence of his daughter (Mrs B. C. Lawrence) at Waitara on Saturday last, when he received the hearty congratulations of numerous friends. The Corinthic sailed from London this week for New Zealand wit a 387 assisted immigrants including 49 boys for the Salvation Army, and 31 boys for the Flock House scheme. The Rimutaka sails on Saturday with 344, including 19 public school boys.

At Shannon on Tuesday our wellknown and popular medico, Dr. J. G. Mackerelh, was quietly married to Miss Iris Wily, of Pukekohe, the Rev. A. F. Stewart tying the nuptial knot. The happy couple will 1 have the heartiest congratulation of the whole eommunitv.—Chronicle.

The principal of Glut ha College. (Mr. John Reid) stated in his report that funds were required for the establishment of a school library, but at present the town “seemed mortgaged by fairs and carnivals,” and it might be better to hold the matter 4 over. It was held over.

Mr. John W. E. Miles, chief clerk at the Hastings railway station, suffered a sudden seizure on Thursday night and died early yesterday morning. He was in his usual state of health at 9.30 p.m. chatting with the statiomnaster, but he look ill soon after he went home. Ife loaves a widow and two young children.

A Tarata farmer, who, after losing his horses and 27 out of his 50 head of cows through ragwort poisoning, had been forced to leave his farm, practically sacrificing the remainder of his cows, was an example cited at a meeting of the Wjaimate West County Council last week. The council was discussing the deadly results.of the spread of noxious weeds.

Fireman Claud Dike, while assisting to put out a fire at Otaki on Wednesday, jumped through a window, thinking it was only a few inches from the ground. He was mistaken, however, and fell over six feet. He is now in the Palmerston North hospital with a compound fracture of the left arm, and under the expert attention of doctors and nurses, is doing well. A 1 disease which is said to be something in the nature of pneumonia has been responsible for considerable mortality amongst the high-country sheep dogs in central Otago. When attacked, the victims become ill suddenly, and die in a few days. Two shepherds have lost dogs valued at £IOO, and several have lost as many as four dogs.

While Mr. J. Holder was in the act of taking a landscape photograph on a Moutoa property recently he was challenged by a bull who objected to the red-lined cloth which covered the camera. “Johnny” managed to save his outfit and hastily made record time to the opposite side of a fence. The bull displayed anger at the fleeing toreador by hoofing of the earth and bellowing defiance. An English exchange just to hand humorously portrays an incident in the recent general strike. A certain well-known young musical comedy actor was a volunteer ’bus driver during the strike and, being gifted with a great sense of humour, he displayed two notices on his ’bus. One was: “If you must throw a bottle, throw a full one!” The other read: "To stop the ’bus ring conductor’s neck only once please.”

Cr. R. J. Thompson returned from a visit to Taranaki yesterday. A sharp earthquake was experienced at 4.20 o’clock this morning. Cr. F. Woods returned from Whakatane yesterday, where he attended the funeral of his late brother. The Prime Minister (Right Hon. J. G. Coates) is confined to his residence with an attack of influenza. The Sports Committee of the public swimming baths carnival, at their last meeting passed a resolution asking the carnival executive to fix the site of the proposed baths. A send-off will be accorded “Moses,” the local representative in the Maori football team to tour France and Great Britain, at the “’Ard Up” dance t.o be held in the Masonic Hall this evening. The Canterbury Education Board has protested to the Minister of Public Health against permitting school children to attend picture entertainments during the prevalence of influenza.

At Thursday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council the engineers reported on the Awahou Riding as follows: —Owing to pressure of work I have not been in a positioin to put the fence in order along the drain on Whirokino road, but-I hope to have the work put in hand almost immediately. Repair metal has been supplied on Shannon road, and the road is now in fair order. Mr. G. F. Roach, for sixteen years a member of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, during the last nine of which he has been chairman, having decided to retire, was made yesterday a presentation by members of the board and the staff in recognition of his invaluable services to the cause of education in Hawke's Bay, and a resolution was- passed placing on record the board’s appreciation of his untiring ecorts. In holding that, the co-respondent in a recent divorce case had a moral responsibility to maintain the woman who was respondent, Mr. Bartholomew. S.M. at Dunedin, refused to make an order in a judgment summons case, in which the petitioner in this divorce, ease, Sidney James claimed from the co-respondent, John Fraser, £24 19s Gd costs, ordered to lie paid in that action. The Magistrate said it would be a shabby thing if the co-respondent turned on to the streets the woman who, through his interference, had been divorced.

Nicotine is very poisonous. Even in small quantities pure nicotine cause vomiting, purging and collapse, and when you consider that many imported tobaccos contain from 4 per cent to 5 per cent, of nicotine it shows how careful you must he in your choice. Smokers will he interested to learn that some of our New Zealand grown types hardly contain as much as 2 per cent, of nicotine. Small wonder that the local article is so much milder and less harmful, hut besides, as a result of the toasting process to which the tobacco is now subjected, the aroma has been greatlv improved. lhe flavour is brought fully out, while at the same time, any deleterious elements which are contained in the leaf are destroyed. Smokers are unanimously in favour of the new departure and proclaim toasted tobacco superior to any other. Obtainable in three strengths. RiverIwad Gold very mild and aromatic. Toasted Navy Cut medium and Cut Plug No. K>, the Bullhead label is recommended to those who prefer a full body.*