LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3838, 30 August 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The sum of £644 7s has been received by the Manawatu Herd Testing Association as its share of the Government subsidy towards the promotion of herd resting. The usual monthly meeting of the Foxton Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Presbyterian Sunday schoolroom to-morrow evening at 7.30 o’clock sharp.

Arrangements are at present being made by the Railway Department to ad op: a standard stretcher which will readily lend itself to the transference of patients from guards’ vans to ambulance vehicles At last Sunday’s football match iplayed at Shannon between teams representing Moutoa and Shannon the collection taken at the gate totalled £4, which has been handed to the Shannon unemployment relief fund.

A forcible 'entry of Mr. J. Ivri,van’s store at Heatherlea was made on Monday night, and a quantity of goods were stolen, consisting mainly of tobacco, cigarettes and tinned provisions and valued at about £4. The marauders gained entrance by smashing the window.

A somewhat unique form of fraud is alleged in connection with an arrest at Bulls. It is alleged that the man took four letters from a farmer’s mail box at the side of the road. He destroyed three of these and from the other he took a cheque for £9 9s lOd, which he cashed at Bulls. The cheque was traced and an arrest was quickly made, the alleged offender being charged with the theft of four letters and with obtaining £9 9s lOd by means of false pretence.

When digging in his garden one morning a Christchurch man struck a patch of clay (says the “Sun”). Out with his first shovelful came a worm; not an ordinary one, but a slimy reptile of snake-like proportions. In circumference it was easily as thick as a fountain pen, and it measured 17 inches from end to end. The gardener had not spent long in contemplation of his catch when the call to lunch came. The worm was thrown aside. Returning after lunch, the sight of about eight inches of the worm protruding from the month of an old duck met his eyes. The rest was blocking the bird’s throat, the bird being on the point of chocking. The worm was withdrawn, and none the worse for its adventure, it wriggled into the ground.

To Motorists: Fill up at Fairey’s Refreshment Rooms. The spirit with which we serve you will please you. Hot pies, mashed potatoes and peas, 9d; for. the ladies dainty morning and afternoon tea, 9d, Rest room for Ladies. Mothers with babies special attention. Plunket Rooms on premises. Open on Thursdays, at Fairey’s, Foxton.*

There are some individuals, of the- hoolum type, who think that the Chinese fruiterer is fair game for the indulgence of insulting epithets and acts of violence. At Wei Tinglon yesterday a seaman was fined £5 or in default fourteen days, for assaulting a Chinese fruiterer, when asked to pay for some fruit which he purchased.

A trainer named G. Edgecombe experienced a marvellous escape from severe injury when galloping a young unnamed gelding on the Hawera racecourse on Tuesday. The animal shied at a gate, unseating Edgecombe, whose foot was caught in the stirrup. This caused him to be dragged over 100 yards by the bolting horse till he got free. Edgecombe luckily escaped being struck by the flying hoofs, sustaining nothing more se-

rious than a badly bruised arm and a severe shaking.

A strange visitor at North New Brighton one day last week was a large seal, which claimed the attention of visitors and residents and numerous children. When it was discovered gasping high and dry on the sand the children amused themselves by timidly pulling the seal’s tail. The animal had appeared on the beach the night before, about a mile further along, but it took the sea to come ashore again, about half a mile north of the bathing sheds. Eventually the visitor made his way laboriously by means of his flappers to the water, and ■ disappeared among the breakers. 'Canvassing on the school premises and grounds for any purpose whatsoever is to be strictly prohibited, according to a by-law passed at a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board. Any person who is found in or about the school premises and grounds for the purpose of canvassing teachers or pupils is to be informed of the provisions of the by-law, and requested to leave the school precincts immediately. The teacher in charge is to report to the board any such person who refuses to leave after being requested to do so.

i The übiquitous rabbit travels under as many aliases as a city “slicker,” according to the general director of the National Association of the Fur Industry of America, who, at the opening of the convention recently, urged that furs be known by their right names. The rabbit outnumbers all. other in the number of soubriquets with which his skin has been camouflaged in fashionable furs. He is wanted all over the world (is he wanted in New Zealand?) as visonette, squirreline, Russian leopard, moline, nutriette, seal musquash, French sable, chinohiletle and buckskin. At the latest count, bunny had 75 such titles, and was “not out,” as many other furriers, asked for a report on his aliases, had not been heard from. “Maybe erminette and leopardine and mar-koni, by another name, would not sound as fashionable,” said the director, “but there is no question they would wear just as well under their rightful names.”

The great increase in the number of smokers in London —particularly amongst women —according to a recent cable, has led the managers of the underground railways to transpose their smoking-carriage rules. There are now no smoking-carri-ages on these lines but 30 per cent, of the cars are labelled “Non-Smo-kers.” It will come to that in New Zealand bv-and-bye. Apti-tobao-coites may rail against the huge increase in the consumption of the weed. But smoking does more good than harm, provided tho tobacco is of first-rate quality and as free from nicotine as possible. That’s where our New Zealand tobaccos come in. The leaf is toasted —quite a novel'idea —and this develops flavour and fragrance astonishingly. And as they contain only a negligible amount of nicotine they may 1)0 smoked for hours on end without causing unpleasant or in jurious consequences. That’s why ’nodical men approve them. You can get -them of any strength. “Riverhead Gold” is a delightful aromatic, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), a delicious medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), a fine full-flavoured varietv.