Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3548, 9 October 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“A peep at thejGipsy Smith Mission,” is the title of Mr Peryman’s address at the Methodist Church tomorrow evening.

The usual monthly meeting' of the Foxton Borough Council will he held on Monday evening at 7.30 o’clock.

The Minister for Health (Hon. Mr Young) who underwent a slight operation in the Waipawa Hsopital returned to Wellington yesterday. While examining the vegetables at the Hawera Hospital Board’s farm the other morning, the manager discovered a thrush’s nest, complete with eggs, in the head of a cauliflower.

The ratepayers of Waipukurau carried by nine votes a proposal to raise £19,000 for high pressure water supply and extension of mains. A proposal to borrow a similar amount for roads and footpaths was rejected by seven votes. President Coolidge received the Premier and Mrs Coates, Avho called on him to pay\ their respects on their way to the Imperial Conference. Mr and Mrs Coates will sail from New York on Saturday for England. A young man, Frances James George Moore, who was arrested at Danncvirke, was remanded to appear at Wellington to-day on a charge of having obtained goods valued at £2 19/0 from HaUenstein Brothers by means of a valueless cheque.

“Oh, yes, the Sliannon-Foxton road has been declared a main highway,” said a local body representative, “but its importance, like the bridge construction, is not considered a matter of urgency. It will probably receive attention after the Foxton-Sanson section has been completed —about ' three years hence.”

A strange epidemic is causing great havoc in docks of young lambs in North Otago. The trouble has baffled the local veterinary surgeons, and the deaths continue. Slock department officials in the district, have investigated with no result, in consequence of which expert aid is sought from headquartin Wellington. According to speakers at a meeting of the National School of Hairdressers, at Paris, bobbing, shingling and Eton cropping will shortly disappear, and long hair return Hairdressers are now laying in supplies of wigs for use during the transition period, but the milliners are expected to resist because they carry huge stocks of small pull-on hats.

A rusty nail extracted with diffiulty from a block of wooxl was worth £lO to C. Taylor a competitor in Saturday's cycling race from Hamilton to Auckland. During the journey Taylor’s chain snapped and lie could not mend it. A passing motorist offered assistance and Taylor said a nail might serve the purpose. After a search the motorist discovered * a rusty nail in a piece of wood In the car and with this nail the chain was joined. Taylor then” rode on and gained second prize (£10). But for the nail he would probably have had to abandon the race. The sad tale of an amateur gunsmith who endeavoured to manufacture a gun from odd parts in his possession was related at a meeting of the Wjnganui Defence Rifle Club last} week. The individual concerned was a somewhat shortsighted Fordell resident, who, having put his musket together, rammed home a substantial charge, and expectantly; pulled the trigger. Again he endeavoured to fire the reluctant charge, and again no result was either visible or audible. It was not until after a third desperate attempt that he discovered his error. He had used celery seed instead of powder for the charge.

Visitors going to Cape Kidnappers (states the Napier “Daily Telegraph”) report that the migrants arc there in great numbers just now, but there are as yet no nests or eggs, the birds being in the process of mating. In a month or six weeks it is expected that the young chicks will appear and interest in the sanctuary will be at its height.

Messrs Elliott Bros., of Redhill, North Auckland, have 400 vines of passion fruit which are now in flower. They had one large vine which grew somewhere near 1,000 ’dozen passion fruit last season. This is the third year for these vines. At the present time the ruling wholesale price is Is Gd per dozen, so there must be money in these delicacies.

A Christchurch postal messenger who had been robbing postal boxes for over a year, was committed to the Borstal Institute for three years. His offences had cost the country £SOO in detection. The reports of the police showed that his living conditions had been disgraceful. He slept in an old shed, apart from the house, and was covered by an old coat and a mattress. His father' died some years ago. The boyjmd made systematic raids upon letter-boxes, and on one night alone he broke open twelve. A few hardy spirits for whom the rigours of winter hold no terror find expression for their fortitude in various forms of bathing, either in the river or the sea. A good specimen came to light, for the benefit of strollers on the. beach at Castlecliff on Sunday* the bather being the cynosure of all eyes when he plunged into the surf. At the manifestation of such enthusiasm even the boldest of those enjoying the mild sunlight, fully clad, could scarcely restrain a sympathetic shudder.

A car containing six local occupants,'including an elderly lady and little girl, met with ai mishap on the Whiroki.no road last night, about a quarter of a mile on the Levin side of the Whirokino bridge. Owing to the lights failing the car went over a bank but, fortunately for the occupants, did not overturn. A passing car conveyed several of the occupants into town and a taxi brought the remainder. At the time of the accident the rain was falling in torrents.

A peculiar accident of a minor nature occurred in Thames Street, Dunedin, last week. A boy was riding a cycle past a motor car parked in between the trees, and lie noticed that the car, which' was unoccupied, was moving slowly forward. Jumping off his' bicycle, he placed it against a tree and attempted to stop the car, but his efforts were fruitless, and before he could do) anything more the car ran into the tree against which the bicycle was leaning. Thus the lad’s attempt at a kindly action resulted in his bicycle being badly smashed. For the women iu Sydney with any pretensions to physical beauty, and with the courage to acclaim to the world their advantages over their less fortunate sisters in that respect, there is an extraordinary field. Not content with its competitions for the most beautiful woman, for the woman with the best head of long hair, and for the most captivating October bride, Sydney is now trying to find the girl with the prettiest foot and ankle. A competition, just by way of a change for the* man in Sydney with, say, the most beautiful whiskers, or with the most perfectly bald head, would at least let women see that they had not the field entirely to themselves. Perhaps it will come. They do some eccentric things in a big city.

lii the days of Auld Lang Syne a N.Z. grown tobacco made its appear mice on the market but failed to get a hold on the smoking public. The leaf was alright, but there was some-thing deficient in the curing, and the industry languished and fizzled out. A much more recent attempt to solve the problem resulted in the production of the National Tobacco Co.’s brands, now firmly established in the favour of the smokers. The secret of this success is said to be due to the new toasting process which has resulted in a most remarkable improvement in the smoking quality. The difference between the toasted and the non-toasted product is as wide as a cooked potato. Any smoker can easily convince himself by trying just a few pipes of any of the following brands: Riverhead Gold, very mild; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), of medium strength, and Cut Plug No. 10 for those who prefer a full body.

A Hastings ratepayer, acting on the principle of “ft penny saved is a penny gained,” contrived a financial system which was designed to pay his annual rates with the least apparent effort on his part. His plan was the common, but usually difficult one of “saving up,” and this he did by putting every odd copper and trilling silver coin into a secret receptacle, leaving them there until the time was ripe to collect them for the discharge of his obligations to the borough. A couple of days ago he marched into the municipal offices and planked down before the amazed rates clerk no less than 666 coins, representing the total of his rates, £5 13s 7d. His payment consisted of: £5 in threepenny bits (400), 9s lid in halfpennies (238), 2s 2d in pennies (26), one shilling and one sixpence, making the grand total of 666 coins. The man’s action is to be commended, but the rates, clerk says he hopes the practice will not become too common.—Tribune.

The Maori Rugby team defeated Central France by 1G points to three.

At Waipawa Joe Gage, a native returned soldier, was fined £3O for supplying liquor to female natives. Miss Purnell, who was a member of the local school staff some two years ago, is a visitor to Foxton for the week end.

Entries in the cookery, home industries and needlework classed for the Manawntu Show close with the secretary on Monday.

D. Pelham, the Maori footballer, brilliantly won the 100 metres in 70 seconds at the swimming carnival at Clermont, which France had arranged in the team’s honour. Referees at the Greytown football function on Saturday had a friendly tilt at the Press. Mi' H. J. McKenzie, in classifying football knowledge, suggested that players often knew a small percentage of the rules, the public 75 per cent., and the Press 101 per cent. Messrs Vile and Roydhouse, in erplying, added to the amusement by pointing out the great advantage the practised onlooker had over the referee busily engaged on the field of play. The chairman ruled all the contestants out of order for infringement of the rules of debate,

Thirteen grouse have arrived for liberation in the Tongariro National Park. They were hand-reared under the personal supervision of Lady Liverpool and are the gift of Lady Liverpool to the Prime Minister, Mr Coates. Only one bird died on tbe voyage and 13 arrived at the park in excellent condition. Mr J. Cullen, honorary warden of the party, has taken charge of the birds and is very hopeful that they will acclimatise well. They will bo kept in captivity for a few days, until they become accustomed to their surroundings. The gates will then be left open at night and the birds will be able to escape aj will.

A Pahiatua minister of religion had a strange visitor on Thursday afternoon when John Joseph O’Connell, aged 53, a man with several aliases, and previous convictions, called on him. As a result of representations that he had been the victim of misfortune at Ngawapurua, he induced the kindly disposed clergyman to give him a cheque for £5. Subsequently the clergyman had his suspicions aroused and communicated with the police. O’Connell was arrested at a Pahiatua hotel where he had attempted to cash the cheque.VHe had also tried to do so at two other hotels, but was unsuccessful in each instance. Yesterday Justices of the Peace sentenced him to a month’s imprisonment.