Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3709, 27 October 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

At Wanganui on Tuesday, Bernard Corrigan and Arthur Laurence Lambess were each fined £IOO for keeping a common gaming house.

The contractors are making good progress with the brick work in connection with the D.II. School building to accommodate the secondary classes.

Six inches of snow fell on Sunday night at Ohakune and spoilt all the sports and celebrations. A further fall on Monday night gave farmers anxiety as the winter feed has been practically all used up. Ernest Barry has challenged Major Goodsell to a return match at Vancouver on May 24th next year, for (be sculling championship of the world, and has deposited 500 dollars.

The Maoris are arranging a concert to be held in the Town Hall at an early date with the object of raising funds to improve their meeting house at Matakarapa. The programme will include poi dances, hakas, choruses and variety items. It is possible that evening classes for cookery, woodwork and dressmaking will be inaugurated next year in connection with the local D.II. School. The new building will be thoroughly equipped with appliances for such classes.

Mr. Moss Davis, who is now in England, has donated to Auckland what the Mayor, Mr. Baildon, describes as one of the most magnifieent.gifts the city had ever received —priceless statuary which arrived at Wellington by the Corinthie on Wednesday.

At the Sydney Stadium on Tuesday, Laeliie McDonald, 11.3 J, outpointed “Tiger” Payne, 11.2, in fifteen rounds. The New Zealander took the lead early and maintained his Advantage throughout,-severely; punishing his opponent with hcafy rights and effectively checking the American’s rushing tactics. " Three city newspapers were charged at Christchurch with publishing crossword puzzles advertisements that the police said were a game of chance. The Magistrate reserved judgment, saying that it appeared that the cases must fail on the ground that, the place did not appear in the advertisement. Worth about £30,000 in 1925, Edward Albert Broughton, a sheepfarmer of Christchurch, speculated in sheep and was caught by the -.slump in 1925. This week he faced a meeting of creditors, with a deficiency of £5500. He attributed his position to falling prices. The meeting was adjourned. The identity of a Russiam broadcasting station which for three months has been puzzling shortwave set- iwners in the Dominion, was established on Tuesday night at Palmerston North, by Mr. W. A. Waters, assisted by a Russian resident. The station is located at Khabarovsk, and is So-viet-controlled.

Over 70 per cent, of Germany’s workers work 48 hours and over — more than half of them over.

Archbishop Kelly, addressing the Catholic Club, at Sydney, warned his audience against the evils of intemperance. He said that qo woman should touch stimulants on any account and no young man would, if,lie were prudent. Temperance required only the courage 'to begin, and, if began early, required no courage at all.

Alexander Glendinning Young, formerly accountant at. Dalgety’s, Gore, pleaded guilty to seven charges of forging and littering at the Gore police court on Tuesday. The amount involved was £196 19s. Accused made a practice of making out orders in the name of . firms and clients endorsing the same as ac-‘ eountnnt. Young worked the system from December, 1926, to Sep tember, .1927, the amounts ranging from £lO 3s to £42 ss.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Noble, of Greymouth, returned to their home on Wednesday night, and were surprised to find two men cosily tucked away in their best bed. The police were informed, with the result that the men, Joseph Goff and David Simpson, were quickly removed to colder quarters, and appeared before 'the Court yesterday. In their hurry to dress at the request of the policeman, one of the men got into one of Mr. Noble’s suits, and the other secured a new pair of trousers. The men were each sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

Most vegetables and fruits have curative qualities. Spinach has a direct effect upon the kidneys, and onions, garlick, leeks and shallots possess medicinal qualities which have a marked effect upon the circulatory system. A raw onion; eaten before going to bed is an excellent remedy for insomnia, whilst soup made from onions has a soothing and restorative effect upon weak digestive organs. The lettuce and the cucumber cool the system. Beets and turnips are excellent appetisers, and celery has such an admirable effect upon the nervous system that it has been known to cure neuralgia and is of great use in rheumatic cases. Tomatoes are good for the liver. Figs, currants, cherries and strawberries are cooling and purifying. Eaten first thing in the morning, an orange will cure dyspepsia, sooner than anything else.

“I have been an inspector of schools and a good many other things in the course of my life,’’ said Archbishop Julius, preaching at. Christchurch on ‘Sunday (reports the “Lyttelton Times”). “Now, in our State schools we have no religious teaching. In some of our Church schools we have a great deal —I think too much. lam just giving you my opinion. In the State schools the children are starved. In the church schools they are sick. They get too much; they are fed up. They get so much religious teaching at school that they won’t go to church when they grow up. 1 know what I am talking about. We ought to be feeding them with milk, and l we are giving them goodness knows vtliat. I don’t think any of you err on the side of overdosing your children with religious teaching. It is not the tendency of the day. But remember that it is as dangerous to overfeed them, and feed them with what isn’t suitable, as it is to starve them.”

There is a Papatoetoe farmer who is looking for a man who sold him a patent device for weaning a calf off its mother (states the “Auckland Star”). 'lt was described as the latest invention by the salesman, who averred that it had brought joy to the hearts of countless Waikato dairymen. It was simplicity itself, merely a muzzle to fit over the calf’s nose, one ornamented with a few sharp spikes on the end. The salesman explained that ,a properly-behaved cow disapproved of a calf with a prickly nose, and, when it nosed round, the offspring would _be gently chided. At least, this was the theory of the thing, and the Papatoetoe farmer was so impressed ‘that he bought a muzzle, and lost no time in affixing it to the calf’s nose. As was expected, the calf went in search of refreshment. The effect on the cow was electrical. It leaped a fairly high fence, tore through a garden where there were young peas and beans growing, and finally vanished in the distance with a cucumber frame festooned round its neck. On Saturday morning an anxious farther was still searching for his cow.

The late Mr. Jollife, film censor, was fond of his pipe and declared lie could, from his own personal . experience, explode the theory that smoking was bad for the eyesight; Of course. The enemies of the weed are always inventing stories to its detriment. There’s nothing wrong with tobacco, provided it is the right kind. Brands containing an excess of. nicotine are certainly injurious, and most, if not all, the imported tobaccos are open to this objection. The purest varieties are produced here in New Zealand. Containing only a minimum percentage of nicotine, these tobaccos may be freely indulged in , with safety. Another point is that the leaf is toasted in the process of manufacture. This develops flavour and aroma in a very marked way. Even the doctors have nothing but praise for these tobaccos, which are manufactured in several strengths so as to suit all tastes. Ask any tobacconist for “Riverhead Gold” a mild aromatic, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), a delightful medium, or “Cut Plug No.'10” (Bullshead), a fine full-flavoured sort.

A contingent of one hundred and thirty-eight assisted immigrants arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Corinthie. The party included 28 domestic servants, seven Flock House girls, and 38 Salvation\Army boys.

Foxton’s climate, and the particular nature of its soil, is specially adapted for strawberry growing. We are informed that in the early days, before the advent of imported feathered pests, Foxton soil produced prolific crops of'the luscious fruit. But growers became disheartened and neglected strawberry cultivation upon the advent of the blackbird and starling. A few local residents, however, manage to protect the fruit against bird invasion, but to grow for commercial. purposes would mean a considerable outlay of capital. An inquest into the death of Gordon Keith Cossar, who died at the Palmerston North hospital as the result of injuries received in a motor cycle accident on the Kawakawa road, Feilding, evidence was given that deceased had apparently collied with a tree on the road side. It was suggested that he had probably struck the tree while avoiding another vehicle on the road. A verdict was returned that the deceased had died from injuries’"Caused through colliding with a tree. The coroner, in commenting on the case, said that it. was remarkable that no discovery of the accident had been made until a considerable time after it had happened.