Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3611, 10 March 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A grant of £IOOO lias been made by (he Carnegie Corporation, New York, to the University of New Zealand, for the purchase_of books for tutorial classes/

A fishing party from Shannon, line fishing, met with splendid results at Kapiti on Sunday, a catch of four hundred weight of fish being made, which included goodsized sehnapper.

George Frederick Cross, aged 32 years, a fruit hawker of Auckland 1 , was find £2O for being intoxicated while in charge of a ear in Newmarket. tn addition his license was cancelled for twelve months.

Canny Whitaker, widow, aged 05, pleaded guilty at Wellington yesterday to using premises known as the Hat-box as a common gaming house. Willja-m Alfred Brown admitted assisting her in booknnaking. The woman was lined £IOO and the man £25.

At the inquest at Eltham on Tuesday, on Blanche- Ivy Tiplady, aged 29_, who was Bound dead in bed at her father's residence on Sunday morning, a verdict was returned that the cause of death was coma due to pressure, on the brain, the result of haemorrhage, this being secondary to lo;og-standing disease of the kidneys^

John Henry McLaren, a carriage cleaner, employed bty the Railways Department Christchurch, was found lying dead un the footpath this morning in Opahva Road. McLaren, who whs aged 45, lived in Station Road, Heafihqote. He was a patient at the Christchurch Hospital in December. Ilet was subject to lits and had been in ill health for some time.

The registration of ‘the following company was reported. Hast week: — A. King and Co., Ltd., private company, Foxton. Capital: £11,250, into 11,250 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington—El J. Harvey 2800; Foxton—-A. E. Signal 2800, E. Baker 2800, lE. Baker and G. H. King (jointly) 12800, A. Eraser 50. Objects: TJo acquire and take over as a going; concern the

business now carried on at Foxton under the style of “A. King and C 0.,” to carry on the business of planting, cullivatimg, and ; milling New Zealand flax (phormiiun tenax) and of Hie preparation and sale of the fibre thereof, a tic! general incidental.

The curious habit 7 :so common in America of popping ..an unlighted cigar in the ■mouth and chewing an inch or two of it tx> pui'p, is not popular with us, although: the chewing of black plug tobacco is common enough amongst sailors everywhere. However, with the rank and tile of Englishmen “the, pipe’s the thing” and a source of cnjoym.ent, daily, to millions. But discrimination should be exorcised in the choice of tobacco. Brands full <i>f nicotine (as tho American tobacclos usually arc), ought to be cut out', because nicotine is the source of al'l the mischief when tobacco proves injurious. Our New Zealand grown, tobaccos are about the purest going and contain only a. trifling percent 4 age of nicotine — j a negligible quantity. That is why you can go on smoking them all the time with the utmost safety. They won’t do you any harm. And they are ’delightfully fragrant. You can get them of any strength’. Ask for “.Riverhead ’ Gold,” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bulkhead), full strength. Caversham Mixture isjthe latest addition* 54.

There are 1(1,000 radio licensees in New Zealand to-day. A motorist who travelled from Olorohatiga to Te Kuiti counted 23 burning haystacks en route, and saw signs of scores of others that had been burned. A watersider, Donald Larnach, aged 39, was convicted in the Wellington Court yesterday, of the theft of a bottle of wine, valued at 7/(i, the property of the Union Company, and was lined: £5, in default a month in gaol.

The late Parry Thomas was buried in Byfleet Churchyard, within earshot of the roar of motor-ears on the Brooklands track. The wellworn motor goggles which Thomas used in innumerable races were placed in the coffin and buried with the body.

The staff of the “Herald’s” meehanicijl: department acknowledge wedding favours from Mr and Mrs H. H. Horn blow, and take special pleasure in extending congratulations, wishing the young couple happiness and prosperity. A phenomenal return from the planting of a single potato is reported by Mr. Chas. Spring, senr., of Norbiton Roald. Prom one tuber given him by another local resident (name, of variclv unknown), Mr. Spring planted four sets, which yielded a crop of 311bs. Two hawks were shot recently on a dairy farm near Waitara, and on examination afterwards it was found tliat one was feeding on a stoat it had captured and the other on a -weasel. It is understood that hawks do not generally tackle stoats or weasels, and! the question arises that if they are going to feed on them is it wise to destroy the hawks?

A charge of stealing a postal packet containing three pound notes from a mail-bag at Timvald, on February 2(1, was preferred against a youth aged 18, at Ashburton Court on Wednesday, formerly a railway porter at Timvald. He pleaded guilty, and was committed

for sentence. Bail was allowed on a surety of £SO. The name was suppressed. With regard to wheelbarrows (says the Lyttelton Times), it probably woulud never occur to the average man that there could be much room for improvement in them, but a Christchurch resident has recently applied for a patent for a barrow built on the ordinary lines with the exception of the floor part, which by the movement of a single •lever is permitted to open and discharge the contents without “tip-

ping.” A ITawera resident, when cycling to his work the other morning, was stung in the ear by a bee lie unfortunately collided with. Tie was not far from his home, to which ho returned immediately and had the sting removed. By this time lie was so faint that lie could not stand and had to go to bed, where lie remained three days, and lost four days’ work as a result of the accidental encounter. A remarkable early effect of the stinging was that the palicut’s face, on the opposite side swelled to a groat size, while the other side remained normal.