Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3646, 2 June 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Parliament will open on Times day, June 23.

For the two weeks from May 10 to May 30 the city inspector in Wanganui lias taken 80 cases in the Magistrate’s Court, and fines amounting to £Bl 10s have been inflicted.

A particularly mean theft was reported to the One Tree Hill (Auckland) Road Board by the captain of the Fire Brigade. He said that some person had entered the Fire Brigade station and had drained all the benzine out of the tank of the motor, and all the oil out of the crank case.

A few hours after leaving London for New Zealand five stowaways were discovered on the steamer Port Campbell. The captain permitted them to work their passage but when a quarter of an hour later six others appeared lie wiihdref permission and landed all at Falmouth.

Mounted police were called upon to disperse a riotous crowd of 300 at Hyde Park last week. The dis turbances began when an nnti-So-cialist speaker concluded. The crowd concentrated on the Socialist platform, resulting in a series of fights. The Park police were unable to restore order, when mounted men formed a line between the Socialists and anti-Socialists..

A Maori [lax beater and a- carved stretcher for weaving were unearthed 12 feet below the level of the street when workmen were recently engaged in excavations in New Plymouth (states the Taranaki Daily News). Both were well preserved, though they have probably been buried well over a century. The new building is on the site of the Pukenrikn pa, which was vacated by the Maoris about 1830.

The fact that a penalty may lie incurred by a purely accidental breach of a by-law was made clear to a motorist in the Police Court-in Auckland by Mr. Hunt, S.M. Defendant was charged with driving without a tail-light, and lu> said he was unaware that the light had gone out. “1 quite understand," said the Magistrate. “I have arrived home myself sometimes and found the light was out, but I have not been caught. Fined 10/-. “Gentlemen, being a soldier, I find difficulty in responding to the toast of the Army,” said MajorGeneral Young, General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Military Forces, when speaking at the Veterans’ Association dinner at Christchurch. But, he said, he had toured the Dominion, “doing camps,” and he could say that the Territorials were of a higher standard to-dav than at any time since the war. Of course, across the seas there were experiments in tanks and submarines, and aeroplanes, and in chemical warfare. “Yet our means here are limited," he said, “and we have got to stand by.”

Here’s the story of a young bride who asked her husband to copy oil’ a radio recipe she wanted. He did his best, but got two stations at once, one of which was broadcasting the morning exercises and tlie other the recipe and this is what lie took down: “Hands on hips, place one cup of Hour on shoulder, raise knees and depress toes and mix thoroughly in one-half cup of milk. Repeat six times. Inhale quickly one-half teaspoonful of baking powder, lower the legs and mash two hard boiled eggs in a seivc. Exhale, breathe naturally and sift into a bowl. Attention! Lie flat on the floor and roll the white of an egg backward until'it comes to a boil. In ten minutes remove from the fire and rub smartly with a towel. Breathe naturally, dress in warm flannels and serve with iisli soup.”

During the month of May rain fell locally on ten days, a total of 0-10 inches being recorded. The maximum fall was 1.30 inches on the 27th. The coldest day experienced locally last month was on the 9th, the thermometer registering 44 degrees. On three day, the 21st, 25th, and 27th the temperature rose to 57 degrees. The vital statistics for the month of May are as follows, the figures for the corresponding period last year being given in parenthesis:— Births 5 (12), deaths 1 (1), marriages nil (1). Maori births 1 (1), deaths nil (1). On Tuesday afternoon the local police arrested a man named Roy Edward Wilkins on a warrant issued last year for failing to comply with a maintenance order. Tie appeared before Mr. J. K. Hornblow J.P., and was remanded to appear at Dannevirkc to-day. It was stated that very few New Zealanders elected to be cremated. A Wanganui man who has recently returned from Europe says that cremation has made rapid gains in Berlin during the last few years. At present the bodies of ,30 per cent, of the persons dying in the German capital are reduced to ashes. The rule of the Horowhenua Rugby District Council requiring that all insurance fees be paid to the secretary of the Council, or to the referee prior to a game commencing, was altered last Tuesday so as to relieve the referees of the responsibility of collecting the dues, which are now payable solely to the secretary (Mr J. Casey). An unseasonable delicacy was seen in Dunedin last week, in the form of a box of strawberries, several well-grown and ripened, and others well developed though still green. It is surprising that a fruit so susceptible l to the variations of climate that divide Otago's summer and winter should he found growing and bearing in the open so late in the year. The berries were grown bv Mrs James Craig, at East Taieri. “This man is mentally deficient. He has recently married, and the wherewithal for the honeymoon came from forging one of these eleven cheques, representing £146,” said Mr. Upham in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch, when a fairly young mna, whose name was suppressed in the meantime, was charged on eleven counts with having forged cheques. The accused pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. Bail was allowed. Mcsdames Nicholas and Downes entertained inembers and friends of the Presbyterian Ladies' Social Guild at the Manse yesterday afternoon. Two original competitions caused much interest and amusement, the prizes being won by Mesdames Barron and Perreau respectively. Dainty afternoon tea was dispensed by the hostesses, and a most enjoyable afternoon was spent. The second of the series of Guild socials will be held in the Presbyterian Sunday schoolroom on Friday week. A ease concerning a bet on a racecourse occupied the Oamaru Magistrate for-some time. Nicholas Lynch, a second-hand dealer, of Invercargill, met Trthnr Harrison Henderson on the Oamaru course on the first day, and confidently handed him £lO to put on a horse. Meeting Henderson the next day the latter told him that he had lost the money playing poker. Lynch consulted. the police and Henderson was convicted of stealing £lB 5s od. The Magistrate said Lynch deserved no sympathy, lie would not allow him expenses, lie convicted the accused and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within two years, the money to be refunded.- The sentence carried with it a prohibition from going on racecourses for the period named. Through the simple process of toasting his tobacco the modern manufacturer has been able to effect an enormous improvement in the smoking quality. It is a wellknown fact that cooked food is vliolesomer and more digestible than raw food, and the same principle applies to tobacco. Wo do not cat raw meat or fish or drink raw coffee, why should we smoke raw- tobacco. It is wonderful how the flavour of tobacco can be developed bv toasting. Try any of the local brands and you will notice a marked improvement-, and what is also important, as a result of the toasting process the tobacco loses all deleterious properties. Smokers who study their health should therefore give this matter their attention, and avoid strong foreign tobaccos, heavily charged with nicotine, they are sure to undermine even Hie most robust constitution. Not only is the local article purer and more wholesome than most of the imported brands, but it is cheaper too. “Riverhead Gold” is mild and aromatic, “Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog) of medium strength, but if vou prefer a full body try “Cut Plug No. 10.” ' 4.