Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40026, 21 November 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A handsome three-decker lemon coloured wedding- cake put the finishing touches on beautifully decorated tables at the wedding breakfast held at F. 6. Fairev’s this afternoon. The catering and decorations were of a particularly .high order and reflected the greatest credit on the caterers.

Maurire William Baker appeared in the Supreme Court at Christchurch yesterday for sentence for bigamy. He married a woman in Sulrrey, England, in 1924, left her a weeki later, and went through the form of marriage at Wellington two and a half years later. Baker was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment.

Under the will of Joseph Henry Campbell, a farmetr, who was unmarried and had no living relatives, and who died at Dannevirke last week, £SOO has been left to the .Dannevirke Public Hospital, £SOO to the Salvation Army, and the residue of the estate to the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Auckland—all for general purposes.

In conversation with a big exhibitor and keen horticulturist at the Summer Show this afternoon, our representative was informed that the present season was the ■worst that has been experienced locally from a grower’s point of view* for the past twenty years, the long spell of dry weather together with the high winds having a very retarding and detrimental effect on all plants.

Ajrising out of an accident in a butcher’s shop some months ago, m which' a lad got his hand caught in a mincing machine, a civil action was commenced at Gisborne yesterday, in. 'the 'Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Ostler. The plaintiffs were Percy Breingan, the boy who sustained the injury, and Gordon Wil’ford Blreingan, his father, who claimed £5045 damages front Alexander David Fletcher and Daniel Murphy. The Avhitebaiit industry this season has been one of the busiest on record (says the “Hokitika Guardian.”) In the Hokitika district excellent returns have been obtained, while, fishing further south has produced phenomenal returns. It is stated that upwards of 1000 tins ha/ve gone forward from South Westland. Christchurch market has been well supplied, while in Wellington there was also a. payable demand. In addition, the Hokitika district canning factories were well supplied.

Experiments in controlling moss in pastures and lawns at Lincoln College by means of solutions of different strengths, showed that 31h. of sulphate of iron, dissolved in two gallons of water, applied by a watering can to 100 square feet, killed the liioss in 24 hours and left, the grass unharmed. The method was found /to be practicable for lawns, hut too expensive for pastures. A more simple method, which has been used with entire success, locally, is to "well scarify the moss patches with a garden rake. There has been no re-ap-pearance pf the moss oyer a' couple of years, where this has been done.

“There is-no duality in vivisection,” said Mr. M. Wialkcr, speaking at a meeting at Auckland. It was not only impossible to argue from the lower annuals to man, he said, bbt the same experiment did not have the same result on all animals. A. hedgehog could swallow 7 as much dpium as a (Chinaman could smoke in three weeks, and could Avasli it down with as much prussic acid as would be sufficient to kill a regiment of soldiers, and yet feel no ill-effect. Realising this, medical _rescare.li wms now demanding the living human body for experiments, and experiments had actually taken place on the Continent.

'Carnival week was in full swing in Christchurch last week, visitors from all parts of New Zealand taking part in the festivities. These fortunate people present at the celebrations, as well as those less fortunate, will have a special interest in the current issue of the “New Zealand Free Lance” which covers in detail every activity of the carnival. This edition, as well as fully illustrating- the Canterbury A.'and P. Association’s Show and the meetings of the Metropolitan Trotting Club and the Canterbury Jockey Club, also contains sonic very tine views of the city of Christchurch itself. The Air Pageant held recently in Wellington provides some interesting pictures, as also does the annual sports meeting of the Nelson Boys’ College.

During the ploughing of ground, which had not previously been cultivated, on the Holmes Estate, MaInlmvi (Masterton), on Thursday, human bones were unearthed. It is considered that the bones may be those of a Maori who had died about half a century ago. Another smrgcstion is that they may he those of someone who had got lost in the hush. However, that is only conjecture, although it is stated that about fifty years ago a man was reported missing in the district. The police were informed, and collected the hones.

“Electricity in the gasivorks” was an observation made when a letter was received at the meeting of the Horowheniia Power Board on Monday, from the Foxton Borough Council asking to he advised as to the rate per unit in the event of the .Council deciding to instal an electric motor of up to 1 h.p. for exhausting gas from the retorts, for which purpose the current avoiild be needed between 7 a.m. and midday daily (says the Chronicle). On the recommendation of the Board’s engineer, it wms decided to quote at the ordinary rates — .Viz.; From 7 a.m. to (5 p.m. 4d per unit for. the first 100 units per month,' 3d per unit for the second 100, and 2d per unit foi* all over that; from 6 p.m. onwards, id per unit. ‘ -

What’s the difference ’tivixt whisky and tobacco f It has been defined tlius: “Whisky makes you talk. Tobacco makes you think.” It’s a fact that great painters, sculptors, musicians, writers, chess-players and orators are generally great smokers. Anti-tobae-coites wall tell you that smokers arc the slaA'cs of a vicious habit and run all sorts of terrible risks. As a matter of fact.if tobacco is used, and not abused, it Avou’t hurt anybody, provided it is of good quality, and of course the less nicotine it. contains-the better. Unfortunately most of the American tobaccos fairly reck with the poison. And Mint’s where they differ from our Noav Zealand-groAvu brands Avliicli are delightfully cool and full of flavour .and fragrance. They oAve their splendid quality largely to being toasted, and .are the only tobaccos thus treated. The toasting it is that eliminates' the nicotine. They are exclusively manufactured by the National Tobacco Company, Ltd., (pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry). Ask for “Riveriiead Gold,” (mild); “Navy Cut,” (medium); “Cavendish Mixture,” (medium); or “Cut Plug No. 10,” (full strength).—Advt. (53.