Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3669, 23 July 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand-Army cricket match was abandoned, owing to a thunderstorm.

On Pitcairn Island golf is liecoming increasingly popular. The links give a very fine view of the foreshore and the off-shore islands.

A clean artistically set job of printing is a work of art that is restful to a weary patron, but a careless, ink-bedaubed job gives a patron the nightmare, and another printer the next job. Bring your next job to the Manawatu Herald. The Bainesse school committee applied to the Manawatu County Council for assistance in improving the sanitary service at the school. , The Council decided to refer the matter to the Education Board.

Some time ago the Wellington Automobile Association erected posts along the Foxton-Whirokino road which is subject to flooding. The Association’s action is much appreciated by the travelling public at Wednesday’s meeting of the Council the association asked that depth marks be painted on the posts, which the Council asked the engineer to attend to.

According to a Hindu legend, Twashtri, the god Vulcan of the Hindu mythology, created the world, hut on his commencing to create woman lie found that for man he had exhausted all his creative materials, and that not one element hajd been left. After meditation Twashtri then took the following: “The roundness of the moon, The undulating curve of the serpent, The graceful twist of the creeping plant,” and combining the whole into a form of grace breathed into it the sweetness of the violet, the sting of the bee, and the balm of the olive, and called it woman. The following alterations were made in the rate roll at Wednesday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council: —A. Griffith to C. R. Beattie, pt. sec. 384, Carnarvon; E. A. M. Arnott to M. O’Reilly, sec. 268, Blk 1., Moutere; H. J. Robertson to E. E. and C. E. J. Eglinton, sec. 259, Carnarvon; Dinsdale’s Trustees to E. H. Hall, lot 84, sec. 384, Carnarvon; G. K. Howell to M. G. Howell, sec. 50 and pt. secs. 45 and 49, D'ouglas Block; W. J. Croucher to W. A. Davison, lot 1, sec. 29, Douglas Block and secs. 370-73, Rongotea; C. Hunter to R. H. Parker, pt. sec. 153, Sandon, lot 2, sec. 87, Sandon, and pt. sec. 153, Sandon; Tansey and Irvine to R. Craig, pt. see. 319, Carnarvon; W. G. Haybitfcle’s estate to B. H. England, sec. 85, Tangimoana; R. Robert to L. C. Stevens, lot I, pt. sec. 316, Carnarvon; A. Skcrman to W. A. Wilson, pt. lot 78, sec. 384, Carnarvon; H. G. Gawlor to A. H. Metcalfe, pt. lot 128, sec. 316, Carnarvon; H. T. Matthews to T. Dyer, lots 2 and 3, pt. sec. 384, Carnarvon; H. M. King to E. W. Thompson, lots 11-15, pt. secs. 315 and 316, Carnarvon; H. N. Cave to C. H. Thompson, sec. 2s, Kopane settlement.

Of all the heathen peoples, the Chinese are the most loving, says Dr. Howard Taylor. They are dependable, grateful, moral and honest.

A tine of £25 and costs was imposed by Mr E. Page, S.M., at Wellington yesterday morning on Henry Barr Duncan, who admitted sly grog selling in a shop at Newtown. The police stated the sales were chiefly after hours, and on Sundays.

Commenting on the decisions exonerating Brownlie and Q. Donald, a football writer on the Christchurch Star remarks: “It seems that next time a referee butts into a private quarrel on the football field he should be ordered to leave the ground.”

By resolution at a special meeting of the Manawatu County Council 'on Wednesday, that portion of the Rongotea-Kairanga Road from the Foxton-Sandori Road to the Oroua River (excluding the township of Rongotea) was declared a main road.

The Rimutaka, which arrived at ■Wellington yesterday from London, and Southampton, brought only 58 assisted immigrants, and of that number only 14 were men. The new arrivals had the following destinations: Auckland 29, Napier 9, Wellington 10, Westport 9, Oarnaru 1. Total 58.

“You cannot look over a doctor’s wall to-day for £l,” remarked Mr E. J. Howard (Christchurch South) in the House of Representatives, when moving the second reading of his Workers’ Compensation Bill. “If you say ‘Good-morning,’ lie says ‘Put out your tongue: twenty-five shillings, please.’” (Laughter).

In view of the danger to the public resulting from the sale by nonelectrical traders of unapproved electrical appliances, . the conference of power boards urges the immediate provision for an appeal board for such appliances, this course being held to be in the best interests of both supply authorities and the public.

Last month the 71st anniversary of the day on which the Norfolk Islanders arrived from Pitcairn Island and took possession of' their new home wus appropriately celebrated. The anniversary has always been celebrated with much enthusiasm. The annual cricket match, Descendants of the Bountyneers v. All Comers, was won by the latter on the first innings.

It was decided at the Motor Conference in Wellington that amended legislation should be secured with regard to reflectors on bicycles. The resolution passed was to the effect that a regulation be brought down compelling all bicycles to carry a rear red reflector in the centre of a white disc, to be placed on the rear mudguard. The size of this reflector was suggested as l£iu. and the white disc 4in. in diameter.

At the Electric Power Boards’ Association’s conference, in Wellington on Wednesday, officers were elected as follows President, Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P. (ManawatuOroua); executive Messrs G. A. Monk (Horowhenua), E. A. Ransom (Dannevirke), W. J. Holdswortli (Auckland), A. C. Russell (Central Hawke’s Bay), F. j\V. Watt (Ashburton), W. Hinchey (Southland), J. Kennedy (South Canterbury), J. W. Kershaw (Wairarapa), A. J. McCurdy (Hutt Valley), H. F. Toogood (representing Engineers’ Association), C. Campbell (representing Secretaries’ Committee), and E. Hitchcock (Christchurch), and W. Cable (Wellington), representing the supply authorities.

Some legal documents that present an extraordinary appearance after having gone through the ordeal of a lire while locked in a safe have attracted some attention in Dunedin. They were recovered from the safe practically uncharred, the writing on them clear and legible, but the documents not a fourth of their original size, and presenting the appearance of a number of pieces- of .ivory discoloured with age. Fortunately, while original documents they are duplicates, says the Otago Times, and would be well worth preservation in the Otago Museum if this were feasible. They are most remarkable instances of the preservation of valuable papers from destruction by fire while at the same time being so reduced in size and changed in colour as‘to present a very extraordinary appearance.

“He’s a good ’usband, Sir, mostly, but e’s like a bear with a sore ’cad when ’e don’t get ’is pipe, and it don’t always run to it,” a poorlydressed woman told the magistrate at an East End of London Police Court when giving evidence against her husband for assault. The magistrate smiled sympathetically. He evidently knew from personal experience the soothing and tranquilising effects of the weed. But. there are tobaccos and tobaccos. Some brands are just rank with nicotine an'l cannot be indulged in constantly with impunity. About the safest tobaccos on the market are those grown and manufactured in New Zealand. They are all toasted and contain so little nicotine that there is no fear of developing “Smoker’s Heart,” this distressing malady or nerve trouble. These tobaccos appeal to all smokers, and the more you smoke them the better you like them. That’s why they are meeting with such a large sale. Ask any tobacconist for “Riverhead Gold,” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulllog), medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), full strength. 45.