Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3805, 14 June 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A local resident, Mr. F. 11. Murray, who lias made a hobby of coin collecting 1 , showed our representative this morning' a number of very old coins. Included in the collection was a half farthing, a very rare coin, and dated 1844. A farthing, dated 1799 and early Victorian pennies and half pennies were also in the collection. Mr. Murray said that he had been offered £lO for the half farthing. The body of Mary Jane Fahev, who was drowned in the Molyneux River at Tuapeka Mouth on May 20, was recovered by the police in the Lawrence district on Tuesday. Deceasejd, w/ho was the wife of John Matthew Fahey, a farmer, of Tuapeka Mouth, was with her husband in their motor-car on May 20, when the car went over a punt at Tuapeka Mouth into the river. The husband got clear, but Mrs. Fahey was drowned, and the search for her body has been carried out ever since.

There seems to be a danger in this country of losing sense of proportion in regard to Rugby football, and a disposition to place undue national importance upon the result of contests played in another country (says the Auckland Herald). Rugby is a game by which opportunity is given for countries to rub shoulders with one another and learn to appreciate each other’s athletic qualities, sportsmanship and general attitude to life.. These games in reality are a friendly gesture from country to country, and hundred of thousands —not merely two fifteens —are involved. It is natural to wish that the All Blacks will have better success in the tests than their present achievements indicate, but true sportinanship says “Let the better side win.”

‘‘Most of the harm from pipes is due to their foulness.” Thus wrote Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, a distinguished authority, recently in the Britism Medical Journal. Sir Robert might have added that the main cause of pipes becoming foul is the use of tobacco heavily charged with nicotine. Such tobaccos 'may (and often do) cause nerve trouble, eyesight trouble, heart trouble, and chronic indigestion. Happily here in New Zealand ailments occasioned by excess of nicotine in tobacco are becoming rarer. This is owing to the growing popularity of our New Zealand tobacco which thanks to their comparative freedom from nicotine may be indulged in freely without any fear of consequences. That’s why doctors recommend them. Another point in their favour is that the leaf is toasted (something new). Hence their delightful fragrance, and delicious flavour. You can get; them of any strength. There are several varieties. Leading lines are: —“Riverhead Gold” mild and aromatic, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), a choice medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), a fine full flavoured sort. Any tobacconist will supply you.