Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3623, 7 April 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The first of a series of five-hun - dred card parlies will be held this evening at Mr. J. M. Thomson’s residence, under the auspices of the Foxton Bowling Club. Good prizes and supper. Aggregate prize at the end of season.

The sale of' produce, etc., in connection with the Salvation Army harvest thanksgiving took place in the Army Hall on Monday evening and everything was quitted at satisfactory prices. Mr. Woodroofe conducted the sale.

One hundred applications were received by the Shannon Co-opera-tive Dairy Co., for the position of store manager. The committee appointed to consider the applications reduced the number to four, from which the final selection will be made.

Mr. Pringle, of the commercial branch of the Railway Department, visited Foxton on Thursday and yesterday on departmental business. Mr. Pringle conferred with' the Mayor and president of the Chamber of Commerce and also looked up local business men in connection with railway freights and charges.

Mr “Joe” Shaw and his famous grey mare “Rita” were successful at the Oroua Downs sports yesterday in annexing the open Hunters’ Competition thus winning the McKelvie Cup and seven guineas. Mr Shaw has been riding in the showrings for about thirty years and, he stated, when “Rita is finished, so am I.”

The harvest thanksgiving services in connection with the local Salvation Army, were conducted during the w-eck-end by Ensign Elford, of Wellington. Ensign and Mrs. Elford were in charge of the local corps about seven years ago and he was accorded a warm welcome by old friends. Edward Joseph Foley who appeared in the Christchurch Court in stolen clothes was charged with a series of thefts involving goods valued in all at £26. Foley’s speciality had been stealing from roommates, and he had changed his address frequently, leaving behind a long trail of thefts. Mr> Moseley, S.M., sent him to the Borstal Institute for two years.

Mr. R. IV. Comyns, coal merchant of Oxford, Christchurch, is totally blind as the result of an accident which occurred on Monday. He was chopping wood when a piece flew up striking him on the eye, completely destroying it. Several years ago Comyns lost the sight of his other eye in almost a similar way. On that occasion he was breaking coal.

“Now that the mushroom season is, practically, at an end, writes “Farmer” in the Wanganui Chronicle, “I sincerely trust that those city ladies and gentlemen who invade farms, leave gates open, break fences, chase sheep into creeks, will extend a hearty invitation to their unfortunate country cousins to visit their gardens in the city and help themselves to a few' choice bulbs, flowers and vegetables.”

A Kihikihi carrier named Claude James Contis was lined £lO and had his driver’s license suspended lor a year for being drunk while in charge of a motor-lorry.

The wave of burglaries is still passing over Auckland unabated. Several business premises in the city and suburbs and a few private residences have been entered lately. Three shops were entered on Tuesday night. Only small sums of money were taken.

The funeral of the late Mr E. Copestake, the well-known crosscountry rider, took place at Wanganui yesterday. The pall-bearers were Messrs F. Lind, .J. Fryer, B H. Morris, L. G. Morris, F. Corlett and J. Barry, comrades of the deceased jockey.

A charge of selling a document, “The Path to Power,” which encouraged violence and lawlessness contrary to the "War Regulations Continuance Act, was preferred against a waterside-worker, Walter Hodgson, at the Auckland Police Court yeserday morning. The Magistrate reserved his decision.

A lire at 1.30 on Tuesday night destroyed a dwelling at Bulls owned by Mr G. Bending, of Auckland, and occupied by Albert Wilkins. The occupants had to make a hasty exit, saving nothing. The house and contents were covered by insurance. An adjoining dwelling wfis saved by the good work of a bucket brigade.

The first prize of £2OOO in the “now or never” art union, drawn at Auckland on Monday was won by If. Munro, of Mount Eden, Auckland; H. McMinn, The Terrace, Wellington, won £SOO, the second prize; oiid William Lansdown, G.P.0., Christchurch, £IOO, the third prize. The winners of the lliree £25 prizes were: D. Mediant, Ann street Roslyn; R. Bason, Eden Street, Dunedin; Mrs. Middleton, Waihola.

For the first time a woman has reached the summit of Mount Hollo,ston. She is Miss Betty Petrc, of St. Albans, Christchurch, and she accomplished the feat on Monday in company with Messrs W. Fraser and W. Cal well, both of whom are experienced alpinists, who have been on the mountain top before. Her performance in climbing at this late period of the season such a difficult mountain, which has foiled hundreds of good (‘limbers, is really remarkable. The back and highest peak of Rolleston, which rises from the Crow Glacier, is precipitous rock.

A Dunedin message says that some years ago a youthful pair of lovers in Dunedin, finding that the course of their love did not run true ( the parents of the lady not approving of the match), decided to surmount nil obstacles by running away and getting married. After a time, however, the divorce law was invoked, and the pair separated and went their respective ways. But their hive for each other, dimmed for the time being, was not entirely extinguished, and it flamed again so strongly that in Wellington lasl Thursday they made their second appearance together/ at the altar, and were reunited.

Tie Palmerston North Borough Council gave a few minutes of its time on Monday evening to a discussion upon hawkers and hawking. The Chamber of Commerce wrote, complaining of the large number of unlicensed hawkers who were* allegedly over-running the town. The Mayor (Mr. F. J. Nathan) stated that every hawker in Palmerston N. must have a license. This did not apply, however, to vendors of perishable goods, such as fruit, fish and vegetables. It was decided to give all unlicensed hawkers seven days in which to get licenses, otherwise the Council would take actionagainst them.

Reduced from a, position of affluence as a leading jockey in the Dominion to a state of penury, Hector Gray met Iris creditors in New Plymouth yesterday in bankruptcy. He attributed his failure to the sentence of life disqualification from the pursuit of his profession, and his creditors on the whole were sympathetic, instructing the D.O.A. to facilitate his discharge providing an investigation of his estate proved satisfactory. Unsecured creditors totalled £939, and after the realisation of assets bankrupt estimated his deficiency at £324. He disclosed he now had no interest in any racehorses, and said he had lost £15,000 on two farming ventures.

Choosing a birthday present for a man is not as simple as shelling peas. You may so easily give him something he has no use for. Tons of money are wasted on presents that are received with perfunctory smiles and thanks but are not valued. Tastes differ widely, but there is one taste common to 95 men out of every hjindred —the taste for tobacco. It you want to give a present that will appeal to nearly every mail, give him something to smoke, preferably a bit of good “cut up,” and the best cut-up tobacco is our own New Zealand grown. This ’bacev is the purest of any because (unlike the imported) it contains only a minimum quantity of nicotine. Consequently it can be smoked all day long “and then some” with enjoyment and without injury to health. So a really acceptable (and inexpensive) birthday gift is, say, a pound (or a couple of pounds) of N.Z. tobacco. It is made in various strengths. “Riverhead Gold” is mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) is medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) is full-flavour-ed. *