Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3712, 3 November 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A large number of local people visited the show at Palmerston yesterday. '

The Wanganui Harbour Board .local loan of £40,000 has been over subscribed.

Whippet racing at the show yesterday was an innovation which attracted particular attention. The speed of these wiry little animals’ was surprising. ; »•'

A petition in bankruptcy was filed by Randolph Arthur Rose, of Masterton, farmer, the tvell-known athlete, at Masterton yesterday (says an exchange).

Members of the local Presbyterian Women’s Christian Union will conduct a shop day in the Town Hall suppeY-room on Tuesday afternoon next. There will be cake, produce and sweets stalls. Afternoon tea will be provided.

Hamberry Jones, a young married man, for riding a motor-cycle while in a state of intoxication, was lined £lO in the Hastings Magistrate’s Court yesterday and his license was suspended for the remainder of the tern. The accused was also prohibited from holding a license until after 31st March, 1929.

A Christchurch message yesterday stated that the steamer Kennedy, which was held up at Lyttelton overnight, owing to the crew refusing to put to sea because the vessel carried deck cargo, sailed yesterday morning for Foxton, after half the deck cargo had been discharged. t While enacting for a war film a deed which won him the Victoria Cross on Gallipoli, Lieutenant Leonard Keyzor was injured at Hounslow. Keyzor was in the act of picking up and throwing back bombs of jam tins, as he did on Gallipoli, when a llashpowder dummy bomb exploded. Keyzor received burns and cuts on the face, which were treated in the hospital. His injuries are not serious.

In the Carterton Magistrate’s Court, Amy Jeffery proceeded agaiinst J. S. Crichton, service car proprietor, claiming £l3 2/0, the value of a suit-case and its contents, which, it was stated, were lost. Plaintiff stated that on September 3 she was a passenger from Carterton to Wellington in a service car owned and driven by defendant. Before entering the car she handed defendant her suit case, and on arrival at her destination at Wellington it could not be found. Judgment was given for £lO and costs £3 9/-.

Extraordinary good fishing was enjoyed by those who were fortunate enough to cast their lines from the Westshore bridge, Napier, last Thursday. About 11 a.m. a tremendous shoal of kahuwai commenced to run up the river and continued till late in the afternoon, great hauls being obtained. Two boys who sat out the whole of the run landed a hundred fish while another fisherman was quite satisfied with thirty in an hour. An old Napier fisherman, who took 13 fish in 20 minutes, stated that he had never seen such a run of fish, in Napier.

The ?dinister of Marine has granted a new license to build a swimming pool at Point Chevalier, Auckland to Dixieland, Ltd., on a site immediately in front of the carbar el.

A new French motor truck picks up its own load, swings it under the chassis and rolls away, dropping it where wanted, simply by letting it down. The chassis and motor are raised 7 feet above the ground, giving a clearance of five feet under the framework, four legs carrying the wheels. The truck runs over the load, raised a few inches from the ground, four right-angled plates on ratchets reach under the load, which is lifted by engine power. To carry out a two years’ geophysical exploration of the Waipatiki petroleum field, about fifteen miles south-east of Dannevirke, three German mining engineers— Messrs E. Bein, N. Mordrinaik, and E. Walliseh —have come to New Zealand. These three scientists are members of the Elbof Research Corporation, a German-Austrian concern conducting scientific subterranean explorations in all parts of the world. This is the first occasion on which such an expedition has visited the Southern Hemisphere.

Belived to be a victim of old age, an unusually large whale was seen by the Union Company’s steamer, lvurow, 45 miles east-by-soutli of Cuvier Island, about four o’clock on Friday afternoon (states the “Auckland Star.”) The gleam of the white belly first led. the officer on watch to think that it was a launch or yacht, and the vessel’s course was altered to allow of a closer investigation. The whale, which was floating on its back, was estimated to be about sixty feet long, but the officers were not able to determine its species. The body was surrounded in the air by hordes of screaming sea-gulls, and the water round about was alive with-hungry sharks.

A gun now on exhibition has a most intercstng history (says the Nelson Mail). The firearm, which is now in the possession of Mr. Geo. Hall, of, Brightwater, was originally a flintlock, made in 1745, and was used at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 by Thomas Tyrell, senr., a great-grand-father of Mr. Hall. In 1834 the firearm was converted into a nipple gun, and was brought to New Zealand by Thomas Tyrell in 1842. In 1843' Tyrell was amongst those killed at the Wairau Massacre, the gun being accidentally discharged and killing the chief’s daughter. This incident, it is said, brought about the massacre. The stock of the gun was burnt in a fire at Brightwater in 191 G.

“Maorilander” writes in the Auckland Sun: “May I suggest that the Te Akarana Maori Association has taken up quite the wrong attitude in connection with the rejection of Maori players for the South African tour. It is absurd to suggest that any slight has been intended. As a matter of fact all New Zealanders, whether they be brown or white, know full well there is no colour line in New Zealand. We have no Harlem, and please God, never will. At the same time the South Africans have a real problem .of colour in their very midst. They know what they are talking about. This little problem is peculiarly their own —it is nothing to do with us. In the circumstances we should leave it to them. Where no slight is intended there can be no slight. Every sane New Zealander would rise in his wrath if his Maori brother was insulted.”

Despite her half-century of years, the old Government steamer Hinemoa, is steaming better than ever. Her trip to Norfolk Island and back, completed on Friday morning, was made in record time, while her most recent voyage to Niue Island was accomplished in twelve days twenty-one hours —another record. On her recent trip the Hinemoa sailed from Auckland at midnight on Friday last week, and arrived at Cascade Bay, Norfolk Island, at 4 p.m. on Monday. !By means of a line ashore the steamer was manoeuvered within 500 feet of the landing, with the result that cargo operations were carried out in record time. Passengers were aboard and hatches down by 5.30 p.m. on the following day, when the vessel sailed on her return trip. Fine weather again prevailed on the run to Auckland, the steamer dropping anchor shortly after 6 o'clock on ’Wednesday morning. The time for the round trip was six days six’ hours' twenty minutes, her best yet.

Tobacco consumption varies very much with the smoker. Some men are content with an ounce a week, while others will consume an ounce a (lay. Literary men, painters, musicians, chess players, scientists, mathematicians and brain workers generally are mostly heavy smokers. Well, even heavy smoking is alright so long as the tobacco is of the best and not full of nicotine. That’s the worst of the imported brands, they contain so much nicotine that they are bound to cause trouble sooner or later. They are liable to affect the heart, nerves or digestion. The purest tobacco in the world and the freest from nicotine are our own New Zealand grown varieties which you can smoke for hours at a time without fear of consequences. Cool, sweet and fragrant, these delicious tobaccos are largely indebted for their fine smoking qualities to the fact that the leaf is toasted in the process of manufacture —quite a new idea. Any tobacconist will supply them. Ask for “Riverhead Gold”’ mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10 CBullshead) full strength.

The attendance of pupils at the local D.IT. School has greatly improved this week. Next year Foxton will celebrate its jubilee as a borough. Possibly steps will be taken to fittingly commemorate the event.

The Prime Minister and members of both branches of the legislature, were visitors to the Manawatu Show yesterday. The Parliamentary party were entertained at luncheon by the show officials. The local Returned Soldiers Association have received several tenders for constructing concrete curbing round the triangle reserve, in the centre of which is situated the soldiers’ memorial. It is hoped to have the work completed before Christmas.

While riding in the ring competitions at the Manawatu Show yesterday afternoon, Mrs. C. C. Meirin, of Otorohanga, had a bad fall, and suffered injuries to one shoulder and her back. She was attended by Dr. Putman, but it is not anticipated that the injuries are of a serious nature.

There is evidently a slump in dancing in Shannon, (says the News). The Shannon Football Club’s victory dance on Friday evening had to be abandoned owing to the meagre attendance, while the benefit dance on Saturday evening, organised by the Women’s Institute in aid of a family n distress, was poorly attended. Machinery is,' being landed in New Zealand for the purpose of glassmaking, it being stated by experts that the quality of silica is firstclass. Some thirty experts from England Fill also shortly arrive to train young New Zealanders in the art of glass manufacture. Of 100,000 shares no less than 68,000 have already been taken up. “Do you drink?” asked the lawyer. “That’s my business,” replied the witness. “I thought so. Any other?” “Yes; I’m manager for a waterworks—a very responsible position, let me tell you. “Oh, I don’t doubt it,” commented the lawyer. “You look like a man who could be trusted with any amount of water.”

The sound of exploding fireworks presages Guy Fawkes’ Day, which will be celebrated by the juvenile members of the community on Saturday next. As one passes along the 'street in the evening, small boys .. may be seen indulging in warlike attacks upon each other with “throw downs” and an occasional “double banger.” A certain amount oF license is permitted on the eventful day, but it is an offence to use the public thoroughfares for the letting off of fireworks and in this connection a timely-warning is given.

Plow doctors put up a successful fight for a baby’s life after its heart had stopped beating eight times is reported from Balmain, Australia. When the baby was ten weeks old it was taken to hospital suffering from bronchial pneumonia, and a few hours after admission the breathing ceased and the heart suspended its beating. Oxygen was administered, and at one stage the heart was massaged, but the baby hovered between life and death. Once the heart did not beat for one and a-half minutes, but the doctors continued (heir treatment, and the baby gradually gained strength. It is now well on the way to normal health.

A “Winton Record” reporter recently paid a brief visit to the Lakes District. He states that while mining has been practically dormant for some years now, he gathered from local residents that there is a probability of a revival of the industry in the near future, particularly on the Shotover River —in fact? in the basin of this oneefamous watershed one hydraulic claim has just started operations with gratifying results. Many people are not enthusiastic over the Kawarau scheme, and hold that the dam should have been built below the confluence of the Arrow and Kawarau Rivers. This would have left the bed of the river from there on to Cromwell practically “bone dry” —a condition that would have been much desired by the present claimholders. The day may 'yet come when this proposal will be an established fact.