Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3934, 23 April 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The “Herald” will not be published on Thursday next, Anzne Day. fr

To-day is St. George’s Day — England’s patron saint —and is being observed as a baulk holiday.

Two men were arrested for drunkenness on Saturday evening and subsequently released on bail. At the police court yesterday morning before Mir. J. K. ITormblow, J.P., both were convicted and the amount of their bail estreated.

A man named Fred Horne, aged 58 years, was found dead in a boarding-house bedroom at. Gisborne on Sunday morning with a pea rifle bullet wound in his head. Deceased was formerly on the Public Works staff in the vicinity of Poverty Bay but had been out of work for a few weeks. Deceased was born in England and had been in New Zealand for about six years. His relatives are unknown.

A Shannon correspondent referring to the tragic fatality whereby Messrs J. €'. Better and 11. E. Tremewan lost their lives, says: “Liko other accidents, the cause will be an ever unsolved problem. No one knows who was driving the lorry at the time or how the mishap occurred. It. can only be surmised that perhaps the driver’s foot slipped off the brake on to the accelerator. What is known is that, to the older inhabitants, Shannon has lost a “white” man, who was never too busy to say a cheery word or give a helping hand to anyone; the younger generation has lost a cheery playmate, popular and a good sport.” “Have you ever heard of a motor accident where the driver applied the hand brakes?” asked Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme [Court, at Auckland, when counsel were arguing over the degree of care exercised by a motorist who struck a pedestrian. His Honour said the hand brake on the average American car was seldom, if ever, used for stopping. The fact that it Was placed well away to the left seemed, to indicate that it was not a driving control. As a rule, too, it was ;not very powerful. Its main purpose seemed to be to prevent the' icar from running away when parked on an incline. Council for the injured pedestrian did not agree with his Honor’s view, having been in a ear on two occasions when the sudden application of' the- hand bralke resulted in the occupants, being thrown forward with such violence as to almost tip them out. Stan Wright, a permanent rnejmher of the Port Nicholson Cycling Club, succeeded in hrealkiing the existing cycle record from Auckland to Wellington by over 9 hours 37 minutes on Saturday. Wright left Auckland on Thursday morning last at 8 p.m. He arrived at Awakino at 12.40 a.m. Here a rest was made for 7 hours 20 minutes. On Friday, at 8 a.m., Wright left on his journey to Wanganui, a distance of 153 miles, which point was reached at 9.26 p.m., after battling with a head wind for the best part of the day. A spell of seven and a quarter hours saw Wright leave Wanganui at 4.45 a.m. to cover the last part of his record journey. A stiff southerly wind was encountered for the entire distance, making the travelling very severe but Wright proved himself to be made of the right mettle and he rode into Wellington at a good 15 miles an hour, reaching the G.P.O. at 4.5 p.m. on Saturday.

Sometimes you are in doubt when buying hosiery. Let us advise you. Call at the C. M. Ross Coy’s, where all the best makes are stocked, the shades are the newest, and the prices always right. See 'change advertisement in to-day’s paper.* The missing aeroplane Kookaburra which Keith Anderson (pilot) and Hitchcock (mechanic) flew in search of the Southern Cross has been located in the desert. The dead body of Anderson was discovered under the wing of the ’plane but Hitchcock has not been found. Search parties are being organised. “Every New Zealander I’ve met is one of the most prominent and popular men in town, or one of the richest. They . can’t hold them down over here and that’s a fact. They have it over the Americans all the time,” is an interesting expression in a letter written by a Palmerston North boy with the Young Australian party in U.S.A. “One of the post-war legislative Acts •which has caused a good deal of dissatisfaction with some of our over-seas visitors is the law requiring foreigners to deposit £lO on arrival,” ec|miments the New Zealand Tourist League in its annual report. “A number of leading people who experienced this impost, including a Dutch professor and a Swiss journalist, expressed considerable bitterness in newspaper interviews recently. We can quite understand the authorities imposing many restrictions on aliens ■who may desire to settle here, but in the case of educated people whom we profess to want to encourage to visit us such vexatious practices should now he abolished. We have made little headway so far, but as it involves action by ParliameniTwe shall continue to prosecute our representations to a new Administration.” It is not often that New Zealand business organisations receive praise from the highly efficient Americans who spend a brief “doing” the Dominion in the course of a world tour. The remark that this country is twenty or thirty years behind the times is more common. Olio is sometimes led to believe that there are many living in the United States who have never even heard of Now Zealand. In New York, , however, the reputation of the Now Zealand Post Office holds a very high position, as is shown toy the following comment, made by a New York postal offilcial to a correspondent: “You know, we have mail here from every corner of the globe, and, no mail that comes in can in any way bo compared with mail that comes in, from New Zealand. It is always so beautifully clean that it is a pleasure to handle it. We have so often remarked on it. They must be a wonderful people over there.”

Hints for smokers: Don’t keep to one pipe and smoke it until it is foul and soaked with “juice.” Briars are cheap enough. Keep three or four, or better still, half a dozen by you, and smoke them turn about. And whatever you do avoid tobaccos containing a lot of nicotine. It’s terribly destructive to the nerves, and .often causes heart trouble. Unfortunately most of the imported tobaccos are. full of nicotine, in which respect they differ entirely from our own New Zealand brands which are almost free from it. This means that you can smoke them day in and day out, with absolute impunity. They can’t hurt you. This is largely owing to the fact that the leaf is toasted, mud these are the only tobaccos thus treated. The toasting, helps to eliminate the nicotine, and it also develops flavour and aroma. There are mo sweeter, cooler, more fragrant or more innocuous tobaccos than the New Zealand. You can get them of any strength. “River* head Gold,” .is mild; “Cavendish,” is medhiim; “Navy Cut” is a blend of choice tobaccos and “lOut Plug” No. 10 is a fine, rich, dark, full-flav-oured brand.* WHY REMAIN DEAF? Deafness, noises in the head, and nasal catarrh quickly and permanently overcome, at a very trifling cost, by the new “Tinnitus Inhaler.” Scores of sufferers testify to the marvellous efficacy of this simple appliance. Descriptive leaflet, testimonials, etc., gladly sent postfree to any enquirer ivvriting to: — Manager, “LAR.MALEN E’ Co., Deal, Kent, England. Complete Outfit, 12/6. *