Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4455, 22 May 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The CHaki Mail slates that a local residedl. lias had the good CorI nut* to receive a wind fall oL J’l.ooo

The whitebait nm has commenced in Hawke’s Bay rivers. This is imnsiial.lv early.

A number ot local tool ball en(hhsiasfs journeyed lo Wanganui yesterday lo witness the British football team in action.

At the local Police Court this morning before Air. (!. V. Fraser, ,I.lb, a lirsl offending inebriate, arrested yesterday afternoon, was convicted and lined 5/-,

The work of digging up the Court house plots preparatory to laying them down in grass has been commenced. Cr. U. If. Barron ha* been placed in charge of this work by tlie (Council and it is not his intention to sow I tie grass seed until file Spring. At Hamilton, yesterday Benjamin Holmes, aged 35 years, was sentenced to I I days' hard labour as a

“Peeping Tom." Lie was found peeping through a window where a girl who was usually alone at night was in the kitchen. The father gave eha.se and found accused hiding under a hedge.

There was a good attendance at the Foxton Surf mud Life Saving (Hull’s euchre on Tuesday evening when the second aggregate was commenced. Prizes were, won as follows: —(tents, Mr. Neilsen 1, Mr. ,J. Hirini 2; ladies, Mrs. Devonshire 1, .Mrs. Ward 2. Play was interesting throughout. The threatened action against the El (ham Argus at the suit ot Pete Barron, claiming £3OO damages for alleged libel in the newspaper's reporl of the Samm- Donovan fight, at New Plymouth, will not reneh Court. Defendants paid £25 into (Court. Samm's solicitors, Messrs O’Donnell and Cleary, of Wellington, have accepted the amount paid in as tub satisfaction.

A number of Masonic brethren visited Foxton yesterday for the purpose of attending the installation ceremony in connection with Lodge Te Awaliou, when Wot. Bro. F. A. Mason was elected Master of Ihe Lodge for a second term. In l lie evening a Indies’ evening was In-til in lIn; ball which was largely at tended. The hall was prettily decorated witlt blue and white streamers and greenery. Music was provided by Air. T. East and a most enjoyable lime was spent by all present. Mr. •). Linklator, AI.P., carried out the duties of Af.C. in an efficient, manner. Interspersed will* dances were musical and vocal numbers by visitors and others, in which the Hum Quintette from Palmerston North greatly assisted. A tasty supper was banded round and the evening was voted one of the best that: has been held in the ■hall.

Why worry thro’ the winter with a “grouch,” A sad-eyed Peever, sulky and morose; Why sit around, or by a lire crouch, While wise ones take “T'he Little ‘Daily Dose.” Wihy not be “0.K.,” confident and gay, instead of having lung-woes to endure; Why not begin the wiser way today, With Woods Great Peppermint Cure.—l.

At last night’s meeting of Hie Wanganui Education Board alterations and extension to the Baines.se school and to Hie headmaster's residence at Rangiotu were agreed lo and will lie carried out at an early dale.

A boar at the farm of Air. Evan •lones, of Toko, attacked four valuable horses running in a paddock with it. One valued at £SO was disembowelled and had to he destroyed; another with a cut sinew mav have to be destroyed, and the wounds of two others had to be sewn up. ‘The boar was afterwards destroyed.

In a message to the Southland Radio Club at the official opening of the studio on Tuesday evening, lhe Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward ) had the following interesting statement, to mahe; “Although I am retiring from the position of Prime Afinister, it is my intention .-.till to remain the representative of Invercargill in Parliament." A envious collision occurred at Ihe corner of Keith and Liverpool Streets, Winngauni, last evening. A very small motor-ear was proceeding down Liverpool Street toward Hie river when a big lorry coining from Keith Street caught the ear in the middle and rolled it over three times to the footpath. The driver, a motor salesman, stepped mil unhurt.

A motor -car found suspended over l lie Tamaki river bridge, at Olahuhu on Tuesday night has been identified as belonging to Alexander it )nthie, out,lit,ter, of Waiuku. It is thought Hint Air. IDnthie fell from the ear and was drowned in tlie Tamaki river. He left Waiuku on Tuesday evening to meet his brother, Mr. it. T. Dulhie, of Dunedin, who was arriving by train from Welling!on. As far as it is known, he was unaccompanied. At the time tic was passing over the Tamaki bridge it was raining and if is though I that the driver’s visibility was obscured. The police are dragging ior l lie bod v.

New Zealand “howlers” are fre<lni'iit. Bill what a citizen of (tenon thinks of its, according to a. story told by Air. 11. E. Pacey, at Palmerston North could hardly he taken as a compliment. Air. Pacey explained that- when in Genoa recently. his daughter, during the course of a conversation with an inhabitant, said she came from a country called New Zealand. Her listener, however, (know all about New Zealand. “Oh, yes," lie. exclaimed in broken English, “1 know where that is. That’s where the black devils conic from!" The reputation! for being a country of footballers seems to have created a peculiar impression on the (iciioese.

Many and varied are the conjectures by Palmer. Sicilians and others as to the reasons for a certain point of the Foxton main road being called “The Half-Grown Bend.” This lii-ud is situated between Karen* and Rnngiianc, where the road leads off to (he suspension bridge across the Mauawatii River. A visitor to Palmerston North traversed this particular piece of the road by ear one day last- week, he being quite sure that, the bend was so named liecause of the half-crown that, one is obliged lii pay when using the suspension bridge. .A farmer, who lives in the vicinity, however, points out that iti the early days this was a had pari of the road, where vehicles frequently became bogged. Half a crown was the. fee charged to extricate them from their difficulties. Hence the name, “Half Grown Bend."—Standard.

Two years ago mushrooms could be bought in Wellington for about Id per Hi. To-day if mushrooms are fancied, the purchaser must pay at least- 2/0 per lb. for (hem. If lie has a nice palate lie can pay as much as 3/0. The change, said a small farmer near Wellington, is due to tlie fact that the Chinese greengrocers are adopting new methods. Mushrooms gathered by the farmer have virtually no sale. Years ago ihey were bought at a small price and sold at a small price. To-day, the Chinese go mushrooming in their motor cars in the early morning and gill her small supplies which are retailed at from hnlf-a-erown. The public foots the bill. The farmer .alleges that other centres are beginning to suffer in the same way, and that the farmer who has a mushroom “crop” must now use his own frying pan—unless lie arrives 100 bile. The position thus disclosed as to Wellington is not the same in Dunedin (stales “The SI nr"). The retail price here has gone up io 2/ , lint that is not owing to Chinese control. The simple reason is the scarcity .-is a. result of l In' drought.

Smokers hove ;i superstition that Tor three people to “lig’lit. up” JVom the same match is unlucky ami may mean the death of one of them before the year is out. .Bo that as it may it is certainly unlucky (o smoke (habitually) tobacco containing' a big- percentage of nicotine, which, being- a deadly poison, cannot be absorbed daily into the system without grave risk. It can —and does —wreck the nerves, and may induce heart trouble also, for Ibis reason imported tobaccos, (all more or less loaded with nicoline), cannot be smoked constantly with safety. In this vitally important respect the imported goods arc a long way behind the New Zealand tobaccos, because the latter are all toasted, and this process not onlv develops flavour and aroma in a very marked degree but renders the tobacco absolutely safe to smoke because it rids it of the poisonous nicotine. There are four brands—“Riverhead Gold,” “Navy Cut ” “Cavendish” and “Cut Plug.” These are the only toasted tobaccos manufactured. But keep a bright look out for imitations!—Advt. 113.