Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3518, 31 July 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Auckland reports the death of Alois Duff us Lubooki, aged 85, son of the late Prince Alois Konstantin Lubeoki, of Poland. He had been in Auckland for over 20 years and previously was in Dunedin and Nelson.

On Thursday a search party found the body of Mr. Frederick Brown, who was drowned on Sunday while attempting to ford the Kahuterawa-stream. The body was discovered near the bridge on the main road to Wellington. It is expected that the brick work in connection with the Town Hall construction will be completed next week. Invoices have been received for special timber from America to be used in the woodwork construction and this is expected to arrive at an early date.

During the golf match last Saturday afternoon a hall was played by Miss TYlansbone and a sea gull swooped down on it and carried ic away and dropped it on one of the adjoining farms, says the North Auckland Times.

The Police Offences Amendment Bill, the chief provision- of, which empowers the arrest of vagrants and suspected picpockets without warrant, was read a third time in the House on Thursday night by 44 votes to 20.

Mobs of dairy cows and sheep were to be seen on the roads in the Taikorea and Kairanga districts yesterday being transferred from the flooded farms to fresh grazing ground. Some of the cows were in very poor condition and many newly born calves were noticed in the mobs.

While a Makikihi (Wainjate) resident named McKee cvas extracting a catridge from a gun with a pocketknife, on Thursday, the charge exploded, and D. E. England, a young man, who was just entering the doorway a few feet away, received the full charge of buckshot in the abdomen. His condition is serious.-

The turf carreer of the racehorse Beaufort has probably been ended. While he was waiting to start in a race at Warwick harm, Sydney, lie received a kick which caused a deep wound behind one knee and severed a tendon. Beaufort had won 17 races and £17,000 in prize money. Among others lie has defeated Gloaming and Eurythmic. Messrs Madge Bros, char-a-bancs have been able, to keep up road communication between Palmerston and Foxton during the flood period. The route followed has been through Taikorea and Rongotcn, coming out on the Palmerston-Fox-ton road at Awapuni. This route is now clear of flood and surface water. The main road should be dear of flood waters by Monday.

“One hears a lot about being able to identify an inmate of a mental hospital by that-insane look in the patient’s eye,” said Dr. Gray, In-spector-General of Mental Hospitals in addressing. Auckland Rotarians recently. “But,” he added, “it is all nonsense.” He himself had in an ordinary inspection approached a person and entered into conversation with him on the assumption that he was a patient. Presently he was rescued from the misunderstanding by an epileptic patient, who stepped forward, nudged him knowingly, and whispered, “He’s not one of us, sir. He’s an attendant.”

How Wctnganui retained its ancient Maori name, in spite of an effort to call the place Petre, was described by Mr. J. H. Burnett, in an address to the Wanganui Rotary ■Club. “‘‘Wanganui is the oldest town we have in New Zealand,” said Mr. Burnett. In the Mairi language Wanganui was a common enough term, signfying “wide harbour.” It was also applied to Wellington and Napier, Napier being known as Wanganui-Ohutu, but these names had long sunk into- obscurity, so that Wanganui now held almost the exclusive rights to one of the oldest and most picturesque names.

Mr J. Linklater, M.P., made an inspection of the flooded area throughout his electorate to-day.

A sharp earthquake of short duration was felt in Foxton at, 20 minutes to 4 yesterday afternoon. The motion was approximately east to west.'

Mr, Louis John Hunt, Rongotea, aged 27 years, son of Mr. 11. H. Hunt, died under an anaesthetic at the Palmerston Hospital yesterday. Deceased leaves a widow and three infant children.

Dr. T. Ilaigh, of London, will arrive in Auckland next Thursday in order to conduct the music examinations of the Royal Academy of Music and of the Royal College of Music. Dr. Ilaigh was here as examiner in 1924. To falsify a Government document in the local post office giving information to the public, is a serious criminal offence. Some misguided individual was guilty of this offence by adding a false and misleading statement to the river report posted in the lobby recently.

Shortly before 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, a ear driven hv Mr. John Cheyne, postmaster at Utuwai, went over a 24ft. hank about eight miles from Inmitoi and the driver sustained a dislocated neck. Decreased formerly lived at Ashhurst. The Postmaster (Mir. Newton) .notifies that until (he Foxton Pal•merston North railway service is 'resumed there will be only one ini’ward and northward mail daily at about four o’clock. Until the original timetable is resumed anyone desiring a delivery of mail over (he counter may obtain same between 7 and 8 p.m. The Auckland police have been keeping a certain class of women under observation with the result that seven were charged in (lie Magistrate’s Court yesterday with being idle and disorderly, and habitually consorting with thieves and prostitutes. Six of them were sent to prison, five for three months and one for one month. In the Napier Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Florence Humphries, aged 33, pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, on a charge of permitting an instrument to be used upon herself. Accused was released on bail of £IOO. Mary Westoby, a married woman, pleaded ' not guilty to a charge of using an instrument on the former accused, and was committed for trial.

One the biggest smashes on the New Zealand Railways occurred on Thursday evening at Pokenoi to the special express goods train from Auckland to Wellington. Seventeen wagons left the track and were piled up in all directions on the .side of it. The engine and 34 of 51 wagons on the train remained on the rails. The train crew! were unhurt. Some thousands of pounds worth of damage was done to merchandise, rolling stock, and permanent way. An unusual story was unfolded in the Napier Magistrate’s Court (states the Telegraph), when a youth aged 19, was proceeded against for the value of some tyres lie had bought some time ago for his motor car. The bov, in the box, said he was a stable boy, and earned £1 a week and his keep. He stated that when he came out of his time two years ago he drew £3OO, but it was now all gone. He had purchased the car in company with a mate, who had later “done him out of it,” so now he had neither the car nor the £3OO. Asked if he hoped to get married, defendant said ‘in a little while.” His Worship commented on the fact that a boy could buy a ear like this and go through £3OO, but refused to make an order as the boy was now only earning £1 a week.

Why should a man who is careful lo wear and use only Empire pi'oduets, continually era up lii.s pipe full of American tobacco"? Keep the money in the country by smoking our very own tobacco, grown in New Zealand. Try it, and you will be delighted with its unequalled mildness and smooth and mellow smoking properties, due to the small per ventage of nicotine and to the toasting process to which (he tobacco has been subjected. This mokes for health, since, excess in nicotine has a very bad inlhtence on the heart and nerves. Once the smoker gets accustomed to the pure tobacco flavour of the local product he will reject all foreign brands with their adulterations and he will awaken to the fact that he can get a better'article, grown and manufactured jn his own country, for less money. Those who like a full body should try Cut Plug No. 10 the Bullhead label, or the somewhat milder Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) vastly different from the non-toast-ed imported brands, while Riverhead Gold excels all others in mildness and aroma.*