NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3761, 1 March 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The estate of the late Mr. Charles Speight, brewer, has been sworn for probate at about £250,000.

The death is announced of Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky, German Ambassador in London at the time of the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. Tobacconists from all over the Dominion will meet in Wellington on March 6 to discuss methods of combatting “decoy” trading in cigarettes by fancy goods shops. It is expected about 100 English tourists will be brought to New Zealand next season by Piekfords, Limited, the British tourist company, with headquarters in London.

Prank Wade has set out from Palm Beach, near Sydney, in the seven-ton yacht Siren for Auckland. Wade is sailing alone. He expects to reach Auckland in three weeks.

Giant briar pipes exhibited in a Bond Street (London) tobacconist’s window recently attracted a good deal of attention. These pipes take an ounce of tobacco at a time for a smoke lasting from four to six hours. They are priced at from £4 a piece. But it is not all tobaccos that can be smoked for six or even for four hours continuously. If you tried to smoke some of the American imported brands for such a length of time, you’d get nicotine poisoning. You’d have a better chance with our own New Zealand tobaccos, which owing to their exceptional purity and comparative freedom from nicotine can really be smoked for hours on end without risk to heart or nerves. They are delightfully cool, mellow, sweet and fragrant, with a most delicious flavour of their own. With such qualities to recommend them (and the good word of the doctors), it is not surprising to find' these brands in rapidly increasing demand. Try “Riverhead Gold,” aromatic; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), x full strength. All tobacconists stock them. —Advt.