Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3664, 12 July 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

At last night’s Borough Counei meeting accounts amounting to £l.123 9s Od, were passed', for pay ment.

We are informed that a motor service will be started Shortly between Foxton and Shaimon. It is proposed to run two trips daily between the two places. • A number of local Rugby enthusiasts motored to Masterton on Saturday and witnessed the Ranfurly Shield match. They all agree that the Bay forwards/ won the match. ,

Those who possessed wireless outfits locally were abldj to follow the Ranfuly Shield game fit Masterton and the cheering by|the crowd was very distinct for some distance from the receivers. „

At last night’s Borough Council meeting the poundkeeper reported that during the month 'f head of stock had been impounded and driving fees to the amount iff 5/- collected.

There was a hostile demonstration and heated arguments between a section of flic crowd during the Ranfurly Shield match at Masterton on Saturday after J. Donald had stopped Blake (Hawke’s Bay) with a hard tackle. police quickly settled the argument.

At the Sydney Stadium on Saturday, Merv. Williams defeated Mike O’Connor on points in a fifteen rounds’ bout. O’Connor was badly punished, but made a plucky showing. At Newcastle Jack Roberts knocked out George Stace in the tenth round of a contest for the State light-weight championship. “I do not want to express any opinions against either of these two men; they are both great customers of mine,” said a genial looking witness when one of his customers was suing the other at the Hastings Magistrate’s Court recently (says (lie Herald). To this unsophisticated statement His Worship,: replied: “You just toll me the J'a()ts and I will form the opinion.” .1 Those present at last night's Borough Council meeting \fere: His Worship the Mayor (Mr. M. E. Perreau), Crs. Tompson, Rosstj Cowley, Rangiheuea, Lucinsky, Rand, Parkin, and Walker.' Mr. R. Edwards, Swimming Baths Engineer, was also in attendance; An apology for absence was received from Cr. Spring.

The misfortunes of a farmer who had recently had .power installed on his farm were related by. the engineer of the Thames Valley Power Board, Mr. N. G. McLeod. He said the man had the top of a finger off by bis electric pump and shortly afterwards bis son, who was playing with a radiator, pulled out the switch and severely burned his lingers. Then a leak livened a pipe in the farmer’s milking-shed and a cow standing on the pipe was killed. The hoard was liable for the cost of the cow, which was valued at £lO.

A neat point of law was mentioned at some bankruptcy proceedings recently when the question of the bankrupt’s furniture was under discussion. It was said that if the husband 1 had paid for the furniture it was his but if the wife paid for it with her husband’s money, which she saved from the money given to her for housekeeping expenses, the furniture was hers, and could not therefore be considered as paid of the bankrupt husband's estate. Surprise wate expressed by one creditor that the wife had been able to save enough money to buy a piano.

A series of football accidents occurred in Auckland on Saturday. In the course of a senior league match, S. A. Lowrie sustained a broken jaw, and a second grade player, L. Boyle, broke a bone in bis foot. Bankruptcies in the Dominion apparently reached the “peak” number last week, when no fewer than 25 were recorded in the New Zealand Gazette, the districts affected being: Auckland 4, Hamilton 3, Gisborne 1, New Plymouth 1, Hawera 2, Wellington 2, Christchurch S, Timaru 1, Dunedin 1, and Invercargill 2. An unusual incident occurred at the Pahiatua County Council meeting on Saturday. At the commencement of the business the council went into committee and the result of the deliberations which were given in open council, embodied the following resolution: “That Cr. J. D. Mathews be suspended from attending meetings until such time as he conforms to the decision of the chairman to apologise to Cr. H. Whitta, to whom he addressed words most, offensive at a special meeting on June 23rd.”

Detective J. Walsh, of Wanganui, received instruction last week to proceed to Christchurch to assist in connection with the investiga tions of the Bnrwood murder. Commenting on the transfer, the Wanganui Herald states: “Apparently the police are now concentrating a number of the most capable investigating officers in Christchurch, but it seems rather a pity that all this time has elapsed and that the summons did not come to these officers in the first instance.” Taniwha, a little soldier settlement GO miles south of Auckland, and to the east of Te Kauwhata, has (says an exchange) been without a church. It was decided to erect a building of undenominational character. A site was donated by one resident, and the necessary timber was cut in the bush by voluntairy labour. The timber was carted and milled free of cost, and then delivered on the site by voluntary labour. The building is to be erected largely by free labour, as only a couple of carpenters will be employed. In addition, the Taniwha residents have collected over £SOO.

Sir Charles Skerrett, the Chief .Justice, in proposing the toast, “New Zealand Parliament,” at the luncheon tendered the Canadian and New Zealand football teams at Wellington on Saturday, said: In all the history of our New Zealand Parliament, the .early days stood look to me for friendship and goodduty, when its members comprised the best pioneers. No country on earth, Sir Charles Skerrett continued, had been settled by a better type of pioneer than New Zealand. No wonder, then, that an atmosphere of integrity and ineorruptabiiity prevailed in our,Parliamentary life. Each member.was actuated by a sense of duty to do the best for his country.

Upwards of seventy years have passed since the pioneers of Masterton carved out their homes in the wilderness, and on Sunday the town attained its Jubilee as a borough. Surveying the stage of development now reached, it is a little difficult to realise that it is not much more than seventy years since the first town acres were marked out., in virgin country, and that even fifty years ago Masterton was a petty township, with the primeval bush still extending in places, right up to its roughly-formed main street. To-day, the borough lias a population of well over eight thousand. Its capital value is assessed of £2,184,234 and unimproved value at £792,'698. In these days of fast boats, trains and other means of carrying mails, if is 1 becoming common to hear of letters reaching New Zealand only four weeks after leaving the opposite side of the world; but an instance quite the reverse has come to light in Ashburton, where a. postcard* posted in Timaru to an address in Ashburton, reached its destination 17A years after. The card is one of the oldfashioned comic type, and bears the postmarks: Timaru, 25 Feb., MO, 11.30 a.m., and Ashburton, 29 June, ’27, 5 p.m. The stamp is one of the green half-penny kind, bearing the head of the late King Edward. The address is quite clearly stated, and where the missive lay all those years is a mystery which the post office did not attempt to explain when it delivered the card at the end of last week.

You may possess the constitution of a lion, yet it will avail you nought if you allow nicotine to poison your systenu To smoke strong tobacco, heavily charged with nicotine, is nothing lint a slow process of poisoning. It almost, invariably ends in nerve trouble and smoker’s heart, or in the weakening of the eyesight. Now that, a treatment has been discovered to neutralise the effect of nicotine you need no longer run any risk. Toasted tobaccos are absolutely safe. You may smoke them continuously without the slightest after effects. The first whiff will tell you that you are in for a superior article —so smooth and mellow, in pleasing contrast with the crude product from oversea. Toasting is a refining process for the specific purpose of developing the aroma and ejecting the detrimental properties contained in the raw leaf. The effect is simply astonishing and smokers are advised to try any one of the following brands: “Riverhead Gold,” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium; and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullsbead), full. All are toasted. . 40.

Mrs. Hope Leontough died at Toronto after fasting 55 days in an attempt to cure her indigestion. “A well-regulated house has its front door on the latch,” remarked Senior-Sergeant Clarkson, at the annual meeting of the Blenheim Licensing Committee the other day when mentioning that at times when the police visited hotels, they found that either the front or the back doors were locked, and they were kept waiting for admission (says the Marlborough Express). The delays were usually sufficient to en-able-unauthorised persons to escape. “An hotel which has both its back and front doors locked is looked on with suspicion,” he added, “and you usually find trading being carried on.”

A shepherd from Central Otago, who has had experience in that part of the Dominion for over 40 years, informed an “Otago Daily Times” reporter that the steady destruction of rabbits is having a marked effect on the regrassing of the land. Speaking with special reference to the work of the Rabbit Boards of Benger and Roxburgh East, he said that the strychnine poisoning on methodical lines, as practised by the boards, had removed the pest to such an extent that the pastoral potentialities of the country have returned in a manner that must be satisfactory to the holders of the land. On all hands that, fact was evident, and there is five times the amount of grass on the mountainous country to-day that there was only two or three years ago. The irrigation scheme on the east was also having a beneficial effect.