NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3690, 13 September 1927, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A bottle thrown overboard from the R.M.'S. Osterley off the Australian coast on August 4, 1926, washed ashore on the West Coast of New Zealand opposite Tikinui on August 18, 1927.

“You made a pretty bad start marrying without a job, having only £l2, and owing £40,” said the Official Assignee at Wellington to Francis Parsons, a bankrupt violinist, formerly of Auckland, and now of Wellington. The meeting of creditors lapsed. During the hearing of a charge against a Hasting’s resident, who was fined £5 for being drunk while in charge of a motor ear at the Palmerston police court on Thursday, Senior-Sergeant O’Grady said the offence of being drunk while in charge of a car was becoming a particularly common one in Palmerston, so common that it was hardly safe for the careful driver to be in the streets at all. He considered that the only thing which could be done in order to cope with the trouble was to deal in a. salutary manner with those who offended. An interesting story of a doctor’s heroism comes from New York. When Lucy Campbell, a 7-year-old Negro child, was dressing she put a safety-pin in her mouth, and it slipped and stuck fast in liei throat. The girl was taken to the New York Emergency Hospital, where Dr. William. Cantrell made several vain attempts to dislodge the pin with instruments. At last, realising that the child’s life was in grave danger, and regardless of the pain and risk to himself, the doctor forced the point of the pin into his own finger, and in this way succeeded in drawing it out. Dealing' with recent thunderstorms, an exchange remarks:. It is interesting to note that ovei lane thunderstorms occur most frequently between noon and 6 p.m. while over the ocean, they occur most frequently between midnight and a.m. Statisticians have announced that taking the whole world, there are on the average 2000 thunderstorms occurring at any one time and every second there are about 100 lightning flashes. Energy is being continuously dissipated in thunderstorms at the rate of 1000 nn - lion kilowatts, which, calculated a one penny per unit, would' cost £ 000,000 per hour. According to an exchange some American business men have found an easy and profitable way of dis*

posing of old sailing ships. The four-masted schooner Aneiura has just been disposed of in Melbourne, and there was the case of the Guy C. Goss at Auckland last year. Briefly, the method is this: A small syndicate buys a vessel, loads her with'lumber; and away she goes. The owners collect the freight money and apparently forget that they ever owned the vessel. When she reaches her port of discharge the crew claim their wages, and, there being no response from the owners, the vessel is sold to meet the claims. In American ports at the present time there are hundreds of sailing ships of all rigs, many of which were built to meet the shortage during the war. As they are not worth the cost of breaking up, it has been the practice to make them into rafts of fiom ten to twenty vessels and tow them out to sea, where they are burnt. Here is evidently one solution of the problem of getting rid of junk at a good profit.

An inquiry from a customer as to whether our store sold the materials for playing “house” brought memories (says a Sydney correspondent). Most A.I.F. men know that it wasn’t much of a game, but it helped to make English war-time beer taste a little less like dishwater. With a keeper that knew how to roll out his numbers one had to be sophisticated to follow the thing. “Kelly’s eye” (1), “medicine and duty” (9), “legs—eleven,” “thirteen —the Devil’s own,” “twen-ty-two—all twos,” right up to “ninety”—the top of the Wazir,” interspersed with the information that “the old man dips again,” made the game, which was generally for a “penny single line” or “twopenny full house:” that made the odds about 30 to 1, or sometimes better, according ; to the number of players and whether the “old man” kept within the prescribed percentage of profit. Compared with crown and anchor, “under and over” and a few others, “house” was pretty woeful, but one could enjoy it in the canteen with the comfort of a fire and be within the law. The crown-and-anchor joints were practised on the “outer,” as it were.

A stout lady entered the smoker of an Auckland tram/hc other evening. As it happened there was was only one passenger when she got in, a working man in the full enjoyment of his pipe. Shuddering with disgust the lady remarked “My good man, smoking always makes me feel ill.” “Do it now, Mum,” replied the worker, puffing away, “then you take my tip and knock it orf.” The conductor laughed. But really the smell of some of those American tobaccos would make anyone “feel ill.” The excess of nicotine they always contain is bad for the smoker, too. Affects heart and nerves. The safest tobaccos are own N.Z. grown. They contain so little nicotine that they may be smoked pipeful after pipeful, and they won’t let you down. Full of fragrance and flavour too. Delicious. They owe their fine quality largely to the fact that they •nie toasted in the course of manufacture. A novel idea! Ask for “Riverhead Gold” mild, “Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium!; or “Put Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), a grand fulfflavoured kind.—Advt.