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Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Unemployment is still acute in Dunedin. The position is accentuated, owing to the City Council having to discharge 100 men.

Wlliile playing in the Hawke’s Bay Wellington match on Saturday afternoon, A. J. Wilson, the Poneko forward, suffered a fractured ankle.

A Gisborne service ear, owing to a broken axle, struck a telegraph pole and overturned. The ear was considerably damaged, but the passengers fortunately escaped with a severe shaking. For disturbing a public entertainment at the Christchurch Opera House, three young men were convicted at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court and lined a total sum of £l4 and costs.

A 15-year-old boy named Raymond Nicholls, while riding a bicycle at Levin on Saturday,-collid-ed with a motor car. He suffered severe injuries to the head and is still seriously ill. At Wanganui recently, Annie Elizabeth Brown, charged with using her premises as a common gaming house, was convicted and lined £75 and Henry William' Hume, for assisting, was lined £lO. “I have 30,000 soldier tiles alone in my Department and I’ll back the soldier settler to write letters with the best men in the country,” declared the Hon. A. D. McLeod (Minister of Lands) at the returned soldiers’ reunion at Masterton recently.

A sad accklent occurred at Ruapuke Island at about 5 p.m. on Friday, which resulted in the death of FredJTopi, a son of Mr and Mrs Maurice Topi. Deceased was employed sledging wood to a sawmill, and as he did not show up at 5 p.m. a search was instituted, and he was found dead beneath the overturned sledge. William MeCarron, a well-known farmer at Hook (Waimate) married, with eight children, when driving home in a fog late on Saturday night, went “Over an embankment, the gig capsizing. MeCarron was found later lying dead under the vehicle, only his head being above the surface of a pool of water. His face showed signs of having been kicked by the horse.

Eight watersiders, John Thomas Maher, Martin Mac Govern, Stanley William Bullock, Harry Thomas, Victor Peters, Joseph Toapa, Thomas Fearon, and William Davies, pleaded guilty in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning to the charge of playing an unlawful game, known as “twoup” on the Railway Wharf, on, Friday afternoon. The toiling watersiders were each convicted and fined £2.

A revolting murder by Johann Steinhuber, aged ten, was discovered after the murderer had for days terrorised boyish witnesses to silence, at Vienna. Steinhuber resented a farmer named Raymeier’s reproofs for thefts, and waylaid the farmer’s three boys, decoying away the youngest, aged three, and strangled him in a thicket. He threw the body into a brook. His threats to his companions misled the police and delayed the finding of the body.

Cecil Thomas Hayes, 21 years of age, was drowned while attempting to succour a marooned sheep at Kaeo (Whangarei) on Saturday.

On Saturday afternoon three valuable horses belonging to Mr .J. Boyle, a contractor, of Waimate, were electrocuted near the Woikaremoana power house. The team was engaged in shifting a small store when the roof made contact with the electric wires overhead. The current immediately killed the three horses on the side nearest the wire, hut the others were unharmed.

A hint that the whole educational system of New Zealand might be examined was given by the Minister of Education (Hon. R. A. Wright) to the Canterbury Education Board. Mr Wright said it was inevitable that the amount of expenditure should be curtailed. It would be quite easy to spend half the revenue of New Zealand on education, but everyone would agree that New Zealand was not doing badly. During the time he had been in Christchurch, he could see that improvements could be made. The Government had to faee the position by a thorough examination of the whole educational iiosition in order- to see that one phase of education was not being given too; much attention.

Sydney James Herbert, a labourer, aged 46, who appeared before Mr 11. Y. Widdowson, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, eight years after a warrant was issued for his arrest, was charged with failure lo maintain his wife. “A warrant for this man’s arrest has been in existence for about eight years,” said Senior Sergeant 11. Martin. “He was arrested a few days ago al Greytown. in the North Island. We have been trying to got into communication with his wife, and 1 would ask for a remand until Wednesday so that this can be done.” A remand was granted accordingly, bail being fixed at self in ,C2O and one surety of i;2O.

Constable Owen made appreciative reference to the fact that a by-standcr, Mr L. McMcrtree, had come lo (lie assistance of the police when handling a difficult case on Saturday evening, when the man concerned was befojre the court yesterday. But for the fact that Air AlcAlertree had given a hand, it would have been very difficult for the constable making the arrest to have taken the man in charge. It was a splendid thing, said Constable Owen, when any member of the public went to the assistance of the police, and ho just wanted to say how much they appreciated any such assistance. The Bench also congratulated Mr McMertroe for his action in support of law and order.

In tlit* Marlinborough Magistrate's Court recently jT. Richards, charged with committing an assault by stone-throwing, on Malcolm McLeod and William Lewis, was fined £5 on each calirge and costs, and Sam Ivingi, charged with aiding and abetting and also with negligently driving a motor car was fined £lO. From the evidence it appeared that Kingi was working on the lawn at his house and some one in a passing car called out “Hey, Fatty Arbuekle.” Kingi and his brother-in-law Richards, gave chase in the former’s ear, and stones were thrown with more or less damaging results at plaintiffs. All the trouble would have been avoided had Kingi remembered the old jingle: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me!”

Why should a man who is careful to wear and use only Empire produds continually cram his 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, du«'to the small percentage of nicotine and to the toasting process to which the tobacco has been subjected. This makes for health, since excess in nicotine has a very bad influence on the heart and lierves. 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 in 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-toasted imported brands, while Riverhead Gold excels all others in mildness and aroma. Caversham Mixture is the latest addition. '

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3546, 5 October 1926, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
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Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3546, 5 October 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3546, 5 October 1926, Page 2

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