Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3658, 28 June 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The s.s. Kennedy arrived in port last night after being stack on the south spit for some time. The Renown, with the Duke and Duchess aboard, arrived in England yesterday. The usual monthly nieeting of the Foxton Chamber of Commerce will be held in Ross’s Rooms at 7.30 o’clock this evening.

The New Zealand cricketers first innings against Scottish Counties totalled 304. Counties have lost one wicket for 9 runs.

A thunderstorm accompanied by heavy rain was experienced local!} at an early hour yesterday morning. This morning a severe frost was experienced, followed by bright sunshine.

For the theft, of nine pieces of timber, Percy Albert Lewis, a young married man, was fined £3, in default 14 days’ imprisonment at the Palmerston police court yesterday. Anticipating a Tariff Bill large purchases of wines and spirits have been made from bonded store in Auckland. A total of £400,000 has been mentioned for the whole of the country.

A man named Francis Dough ter - ty, aged 41, a resident of Foxton, sustained a fracture of his right leg as a result of falling in Mattar’s barber’s saloon on Saturday evening. After receiving medical attention the injured man was conveyed to the Palmerston N. Hospital where he is making satisfactory progress towards recojery. At the Auckland S.M, Court yesterday Harry Hurst O’Connor, aged 18, was committed for sentence at the Supreme Court on 14 charges of theft of goods valued at £9B 9s fid, money £34 10s 7d, and a pass book of a bank showing a credit of £4BO. All the thefts were committed from private hotels and boarding-houses. Accused admitted all of the charges. Most of the stolen property has been recovered. •

In advocating that the matter of suppressing the names of the relatives, of accused: persons, or of the accused persons themselves, Mr. Gray, the chairman of the Justices Association executive, speaking at Palmerston North, said that he had only praise for the maimer in which the Press of the Dominion dealt with such matters. In every instance an appeal to the Pre,ss, made by him as a visiting Justice, had been honoured. “I love the Press,” said the veteran Justice.

A new coal mine has been opened up at Westport. It is intended to erect at the mine face binns to hold a thousand tons of coal, those at the railway siding in the Buller Gorge having a capacity of 300 tons. Ail the coal the company can produce for some time to come is already on order. The field is an extension across Cascade Creek of that from which the Westport Coal Company’s coal is mined. This opening of a new mine is viewed jubilantly in Westport. The Governor-General cabled to the Duke of York on Saturday: “On behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand, I respectfully offer to your Royal Highnesses heartiest congratulations on the completion of your tour and warmest sympathy in the happiness of your homecoming.” The Duke replied: “The Duchess of York and I thank you most heartily for the message you have sent us on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand. We shall always treasure the memory of our happy time in the Dominion and send you all our best wishes.”

• An elderly man named Patrick O’Mara was found dead in his hut at Waimate yesterday. It is believed that he has relatives in Christchurch.

A record for New Zealand and also for the world in infant mortality rate was the Dominion’s phenomenally low figure last year of 39.76 per 1000 births. At St. Paul’s Church, Devonport, Auckland, on Sunday evening, the Rev. W. Lawson Marsh, M.A., referring to drinking among young people at dances said loss of character of young people, who should be the country’s greatest asset, loose lips, and the weak eyes of many young men and women told of dissipation. Some of the things that went on would make a pagan sick at heart. True life and true sport made the red blood of life course through the veins. But what went on at some dances was a shame and disgrace, and led to wreck a character. Robert Louis Stevenson once declared, according to one of his biographers: “No woman should marry a mail who doesn’t smoke,” and Stevenson, it must be admitted knew human nature. Another famous man of letters, Bulwer-Lytton, wrote (see his novel, “What will he do with it?”) “He who doth not smoke hath either known no greater grief, or refuseth himself the softest consolation next to that which comes from heaven.’' As to the harmfulness of the habit much — very much —depends upon the tobacco. Brands heavily charged with nicotine are best avoided. In that respect and in other respects our own New Zealand grown tobaccos hold pride of place, because they contain comparatively little nicotine and may therefore he indulged in ad. lib., without affecting nerves or heart. Doubtless that is why they are finding favour with so many smokers. They are on sale everywhere, and are adapted to all tastes. “Riverhead Gold” is mild aromatic, “Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog) a delightful medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) label is a fine full-flavoured tobacco.