Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3657, 25 June 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. W. Petrie, chief hemp grader, was in Foxton yesterday. The Girl Guides will attend the Methodist Church service at 11 a.m. to-morrow.

Ashburton county potato growers have forwarded a protest to the Government against the importation of Tasmanian potatoes.

The Pons-Winnecke comet was observed on Thursday by the Hawera Astronomical Society, which is believed to be the first in New Zealand to sight the same.

Since 1900 the honorarium of the Mayor of Christchurch has been £4OO per annum. The City Council decided on Monday night that it should he increased to £SOO.

A mouth-organ hand lias been formed at Timaru. The movement has the support of the Timaru Competitions Society, and Mr. 11. W. Osborne, well-known hand conductor, has been offered the eonductorship of the new body.

A Te Arolia farmer recently advertised for a mail for general farm work at £2 per week, and no less than 53 applications, many of which were from Auckland, were received. There must be a great deal of unemployment in the Auckland province.

Following a police investigation into the theft of over £6 from a bakery at Wbangarci, what is believed to be tlie exact sum taken has been returned through the post addressed in hand-writing obviously disguised, the envelope contained a £5 note, a £1 note, sixepence and a half-penny. Last Tuesday was accounted by popular belief the shortest day of the year and the turning-point after which we approach nearer each day to summer (remarks an exchange). As a matter of fact the date of the shortest day differs each year, and this winter the 25th (to-day) bears the gloomy distinction.

“Old Hand,’’ writes as follows to the Pahiatua Herald: —“I have had considerable success in a rare method of catching eels. The procedure is as follows: A good hook, a strong line about (> feet long, a lump of tainted meat, fish in deep water, stand upstream, as soon as the smell of the tainted meat goes down stream, the eels come up in dozens. I find evening the best time for excellent results."

The Mayor of Otaki at Monday’s meeting of the Otaki Borough Council stated that his honorarium had been put down in the estimates at £2O, whiff: originally it was £52. He had taken exception to this on principle and said that he would take time to consider his position, lie said that he would decline to take the honorarium as stated by the Council, but was agreeable that it be handed over to the Otaki Benevolent Fund, provided Councillors made up the extra £2O. The Council took no action in the matter.

For using a whisky bottle from which the original label, had not been removed to bottle another brand of- whisky was made against Alexander Rattray, hotcffkeeper, of Christchurch and Hilda Nieholls, licensee of Quinn’s Post Hotel, Wallaccville in the Wellington S.M. Court yesterday. A fine of £2O was inflicted in each case. Mr Macassoy, who prosecuted, said that there was a good deal of this sort of thing going on and there had been several prsecutions against Wellington hotels. The whisky in question was not a bad whisky, but it was very necessary that a bottle should contain the liquor prescribed by its label.”

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds, never fails

Mr. Allen Bell has given notice to ask the Minister of Internal Affairs whether a petrol fax will be imposed this year.

At the Ashburton Police Court yesterday, Timothy Kissane was charged, as the outcome of a police raid on 3rd June, that he permitted Basil Muller to use his premises as a common gaming house. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £25.

The Southern Hawke’s Bay branch of the Farmers’ Union yesterday discussed daylight saving, and decided by 9 votes to 7 in favour of the Bill which is to come before Parliament. Last -year the union’s executive decided to oppose the Bill by a majority of one vote. Mika Kftwhena, an old follower of Te Kooti, has died at Whatatutu, near Gisborne. He was reported to have assisted Te Kooti by overpowering the guard and seizing a tribeman at the Chathams. He was reputed to be 101 years old. He was a powerful man and enjoyed good health till shortly before his death.

A largely attended and most enjoyable euchre party and dance was held in the Glen Oroua Hall last night, in aid of the hall funds. Mr. Lancaster as M.C., kept things going wiih a swing fom the start The supper arrangements were in the hands of the ladies’ committee and..the music was provided by Palmerston musicians.

On behalf of Mr. W. Glen (Rangitikei), Mr. Gordon Elliott gave notice to ask the .Minister of Finance what steps were taken in regard to the action of the Banks in increasing the rate of interest on advances. Seeing that the public owned onethird of the shares of the Bank of New Zealand, some explanation was due to the House and to the Dominion. .

On page one of this issue will be found particulars of a crossword competition which is being run by the country Press in conjunction with the directors of the Wanganui Y.M.C.A. This is the first of a series of competitions, the prize money for which has been guaranteed by reputable citizens of Wanganui, and every penny of the profit derived will be devoted to advancing the work of the Y.M.C.A.

An old man named Toker, 80 years of age, walked into the rear end of a passing train at a railway crossing at Hastings on Thursday. He was knocked down immediately, and was found to have abrasions between the eyes and a painful injury of the left leg and thigh, and evidently suffered from shock. In spite of the injuries, the injured man kept complete consciousness. He was later removed to the Napier Hospital in a serious condition. Onlookers say Toker walked into the train as if he did not see it.

During repairs to the-steeple of St. John’s Methodist. Church in Auckland, two unique coins were discovered. The first, found at the top of the spire, bore the'date 1790, when King George 111. was on the throne of England. It was the colour of a spade guinea, but was notgold. It was milled on the edge (generally a sure sign of a genuine coin). About a third of the way down from the top the workmen came on the second coin, lying' on a ledge. It was a copper medal, about the size of a half-penny, issued at the time of the New Zealand visit of the present King and Queen in the Ophir. These little souvenirs were distributed to the school children. How both coins came to be left in the. steeple is a mystery.

An interesting story attaches to a gift of £5 which has been received by the Auckland Hospital Board from a former patient through Dr. Milsom. At a meeting of the board, the chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, said about five years ago Dr. Milsom operated on a young boy at the hospital who had poisoned his feet, and although it was thought, the lad would lose his feet, he recovered. During the recent holidays the boy earned £5 digging potatoes—the first money he had ever earned — and he sent it to Dr. Milsom as a thanks offering. Dr. Milsom was unable to accept the money and forwarded it to the board. The best tiling that”could be done with it, added Mr. Wallace, was to purchase an invalid chair. He said the spirit of the action was to lie admired, and it was decided to forward a letter of thanks to the boy.

A lady doctor in England has just declared that smoking is a. wonderful preservative of the teeth, and that although the teeth of some smokers may be discoloured they are generally sounder than those of the non-smokers. So many hard tilings have been said about . tobacco that it. is refreshing to find a lady—and a lady medico at that —putting in a good word for the weed. Of course every smoker knows that smoking prevents or arrests dental decay. What every smoker does not know, or at all events ignores, is that an excess of nicotine in tobacco is highly injurious. And that’s where our New Zealand tobaccos come in. Being comparatively free from nicotine, they may be smoked almostincessantly without affecting the nerves or heart. Moreover they are all toasted —hence their fine flavour and delightful aroma. Made in several strengths, they appeal to all tastes. “Riverhead Gold” mild and aromatic; “Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog), is fragrant medium; and “Cut Plug No. 10" (Bullshead), a fine full flavoured tobacco. They are on sale everywhere. 22.

At Dunedin last night in the fight between Harry Gunn (8.13) and Johnnie Leekie (8.12), the Dunedin man who was making his fh’st- appearance as a professional knocked out Gunn in the sixth round. The contest between Tommy Griffiths (8.7*) and Hector Leekie .(8.11*) went the full 10 rounds and Griffiths won comfortably on points. “There are nearly 200 different varieties of religions and denominations in this country,” said the Rev. G. Budd, superintendent of Presbyterian Home Missions, in an address at "Levin. “Anyone who tries to start a new one must be very hard to please, and ought to be prohibited by law. I fancy that when the census paper gets to a bush camp, the boys try a little bit of humour on it.” Mr. Budd mentioned such strange appellations as “Blue Domers” and “Crenity,” adding that lie thought the latter term might have been intended for “cranky.” A deputation from the licensed trade waited upon the Prime Minister at Wellington yesterday and urged an extension of time for the taking of the pills and objecting to the abolition of the second issue. Mr Coates said that, he could only answer for legislation as he did to the deputation from the Alliance —that a Bill was being drafted; that it would contain certain proposals; and that it was hoped that members of Parliament would have an opportunity to discuss it and express their views. “I will leave it at that,” he concluded. An old-fashioned rifle was the innocent cause of some merriment in the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, during the hearing of a charge against a young man of failing to register the weapon under the Arms Act. Counsel for the defendant (Mr. W. E. Leicester) inadvertently pointed the rifle in the direction, of the Bench, and Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., remarked: “I wish you would refrain from pointing that gun at me. If you want to brandish it, point it at the Press.” (Laughter). “1 fear that a section of the Press has scented the danger and escaped," replied counsel, amid renewed laughter, indicating the empty seat, “but the gun is so obsolete that I doubt whether it has been fired during the last fifty years, and my main desire is to prevent it from dropping to pieces.”