Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3963, 2 July 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'The Foxton Rugby Football-Club at its committee meeting’ last evening made a donation of £2 2/- towards the earthquake fund. The s.s. Himatangi, which is at present in Wellington, will arrive in Foxton to-molrrow and leave _ again for Wellington and Lyttelton on Thursday. Old residents an the district proclaim the recent bad weather as the worst and most consistent that they haye experienced during the last twenty years. The fire alarm sounded on Sunday morning about 11 o’clock the cause of the alarm being a tqi toi hush which had caught alight, in All Saints’ Church yard. During last month the rainfall totalled 8.4 inches; rain fell on eight days, the maximum fall 6.07 inches on the 19th. June- 22nd -was the- coldest day with a temperature of 42 degrees. The warmest days' were the 7th and Bth with 58 degrees. The local postmaster (Mr. J. "Newton) notifies that parcels of clothing will he carried through the post free of postage, Tor the relief of residents of areas affected by the recent earthquake. Such parcels must be addressed to the Belief Organisation. Shower streamers are proclaimed to be the very latest thing at weddings and are doing away with the throwing of confetti. They are certainly cleaner and much more effective. The “Manawatu . Herald" carries large ■ stocks of shower streamers in five colours. Price ’/3 a dozen. Confetti also stocked at 4d per packet. There is no better value in writing paper to-day than the mammoth pad of 400 ""pages at 1/-, procn rable at the “Manawatu Herald” office. The paper is of excellent quality and the pad contains a good blotter. 'To go with this exceptional; offer we are also able to retail a-, first quality ivory envelop at fid per* packet of 30, on 7d for a packet of--50 oreaiin laid envelopes. Foxton can lay claim to something in the nature of a record in the way of weddings this month. Five are to take place in the space of the new few days. One was held .yesterday, one was held this forenoon, one to-morrow and two others following closely on. On view in Mrs. Walls’ shop window last 'week were the five cakes, which completely occupied one shop window. lTha.t the origin of earthquakes in New Zealand is in pressure transmitted to the shore line of Dominion from the subsided movements of the floor of the Pacific Ocean is the opinion of Professor Sir Edgeworth David, of Sydney, as

stated in an interview published in the Daily Guardian. Professor David was a member of the Shalekeleton 1907-9 expedition to the Antarctic, and in that capacity made valuable contributions to the storehouse of scientific, knowledge. “Earthquakes,” he says, “are caused iby cracks forming in the earth’s crust, along zones where great masses are being set up by movements, usually of the ocean floor, along where a great ocean is bounded by a land shore, line.” Sir Edgeworth recalls that in the severe New Zealand earthquake in 1855 the shock developed into an actual track starting on the north side, of Cook Strait, 40 miles east of Wellington, and travelling 90 miles inland. “Practically the whole of the shore line of the Pacific is from time to time visited either by earthquake shocks, or volcanic eruptions.” Two .ex-miners of Thames (says the Star) who have had some experience in the earthquake district are very sanguine that as the result of the disturbanlee in the strata l»y the earthquake good gold will be found, 'and have expressed their intention of setting out as soon as possible on a prospering trip in the region of the Matakitaki Valley. As the greater portion of the valI ley is held nndoir a dredging license i( will be interesting to learn what their experiences will be but it is their intenton to work back an to the hill country in the hope of discovering the reef. Tt is a well-proved fact that there is gold in the Matakitaki Valley, sinlee it is possible to get colour in any stream in the district, but so far no one has yet come across the “mother-lode,” although in 1922 an old fossicfker arrived in Murchison with some extraordinary rich samples which, he declared, lie had obtained from an out-crop. However, he caught a bad 'Cold, and unfortunately took an overdose of spirits to cure it and spent the night in the open in bitter winter weather. He never recovered from the bout of pneumonia that followed, and his secret died I with him.

A sharp earthquake shock was experienced locally at 6.58 o’clock on Sunday evening. - A fire at the Heretaunga Masonic Lodge, Hastings, yesterday destroyed the ante-rooim leading to the temple and the latter as well as the refectory was badly damaged by fire, smoke and vatei. The regalia of Heretaunga and Haeata Lodges was lost. The insurances are: Building £1450, and contents, fittings and Heretaunga regalia £550, all in the National. Haeata regalia was insured for £l5O. in the Southern Union. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Teawa, of Union (Street, had the' misfortune to fall off a gate while playing on Saturday evening an dseverely injured her leg. The child was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday for X-ray examination, where it was discovered that the leg had been fractured in two places.

Claiming that he has been libelled by the New Zealand Herald on two separate occasions, the Hon. O. F. Nelson has instituted proceedings for.damages amounting to £IO,OOO against Messrs Wilson and Morion, Ltd., as proprietors, printer! and publishers of that newspaper. A writ has been issued andj service has been accepted. The action will be based on parts of the text of a leading article published in January, 1928, and a sub-leader published on June 19th, 1929. £SOOO is claimed in each case. As the result of a shooting accident a young farmer named Logan Atkinson, a married man with three children, was admitted to the Palmirston North Hospital at 5 p.tn. cut Sunday. His left hand had to bef amputated. It appears that wtili two companions, Atkinson, who resides about. 12 miles from Palmesston North 'along the Pahiatua Track, went into the bush some three miles from his home. While he was picking up a loaded shotgun the weapon was accidentally discharged, the charge lodging in his left hand.

At a meeting of the South Island Motor Union, it was agreed that push bicycles should be registered jind that double-banking. on them hr the carriage thereon, of any article which interferes with the free faction.of the knee, or otherwise interferes with steering or signalling, lie prohibited (states a Christchurch telegram). It was also agreed to ask the Government to bring down a regulation requiring that tall cars entering the Dominion after March 31, 1930, be fitted with an antidazzle device and that in the meantime the regulation regarding focussing he rigidly enforced.

“I don’t say you are smoking too much,” said a well-known Wellington nerve specialist to a patient, “hut you are smoking too mutch of the wrong kind of tobacco. The brand yon have just shown me is imported, and like So many of the imported tobaccos, contains far too much nicotine to render its habitual use advisable. The absorption into the system, day after day of nicotine in excess is bound to affect the health —soonqr or later. Why smoke these injurious tobaccos when we have tohalecos grown and manufactured here in New Zealand (by the National Tobacco Company) which are probably the purest in the world owing to the very small quantity of nicotine they contain: They are all toasted. That neutralises the nicotine, and makes them safe smoking. They have a delicious flavouir and aroma, too. I simoko them myself. 'The National Tobacco Company is to he congratulated on their production. They are in various strengths —“Riverhead Gold,” “Cavendish,” “Navy Cut No. 3,” and “Cut Plug No. 10.” So you can please yourself. —Adv't 7.