NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3514, 22 July 1926, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

W|hile playing, football at Raglan on Saturday a young man, 20 years of age named Sydney Death, a farmer, of Waingaroa, dropped dead shortly after the start 'of the game. That he could serve only one king, and owed allegiance to no other king but Jesus, was the extraordinary reason advanced by a man in the Nelson Magistrate’s Court yesterday, for his refusal to enrol as an elector. “A lot of nonsense was the Magistrate’s blunt comment upon the man’s statementin fineing him 5/- and costs. At the Grey town Magistrate’s Court last week, the Magistrate, Mr. Mowlem, said he thought the old idea that a boarder could take a friend into a hotel for the purpose of getting a drink had long since been exploded. He intended to explode it in the case before him when he inflicted £2 fines oh boarder and guest.

The Bishop of Southwell. in summing up the requirements of modern congregations, in a pastoral letter, says: “The clergyman is expected to be a good preacher, a regular visitor, a boy’s man, a young man’s man, a business man, and a tactician, and to have a good wife who will act- as unpaid curate. The truth is that the congregation wants an Archangel.” What’s in a name? This question is not without signficance if read in conjunction with the report of a meeting of Communists held in New York last month in support of the British coal miners’ strike. The British “ruling class” was blamed for the strike which was hailed with pleasure by the various speakers, whose names were Statcheli (chairman), Gitlow, Weinstone, Krumbein, Greeht and Poyntz.

A Wanganui business man’s experience of unemployed labour lias not been happy. He gave one man a job digging a garden, and it cost him £8 10s for work that should have taken only a couple of days. Later, his wilting beneficence again asserted itself, and he gave another workless worker an opportunity in his garden. At 2.30 in the afternoon he was called home by his wife. “Look at him,” she said, “I-le’s been ike that since one o’clock.” The exhausted toiler was hsleep under a tree. Smoker’s heart is a distressing malady caused chiefly through the effects of an alkaloid called nicotine which is extremely poisonous. Strong tobacco with a high percentage of nicotine slioud therefore be avoided. When selecting a brand, the smoker should not be guided by appearance alone, because even an apparently mild cigarette tobacco of a bright lemon colour may contain —and often does contain an excess of nicotine. It is a peculiar fact that certain N.Z. soils produce a leaf with a very small percentage of nicotine, compared with the foreign type. Take for instance our local brands: Riverhead Gold Cut Plug No. 10 and Toasted Navy Cut. There you have .an absoultely pure article, which can be smoked continuously without the slightest after effects. ' It burns to the last shred, leaving the mouth sweet and clean. So highly is New Zealand tobacco commented upon by Doctors and experts that smokers should acquaint themselves with the merits of our own product by giving the above brands a fair trial.