Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4527, 6 November 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Otaki Horticultural and District Society’s Spring Show will ■be held on Thursday, 20th inst. Entries close on November 18th.

Margaret Kerehona, a Maori woman, was committed for trial at Hawera yesterday, charged with having caused the death of her foster child.

iShop foreman: Ilow do you convince a customer that you have thoroughly lubricated his car? Applicant for job: 1 smear a little grease on his steering wheel. Foreman: You’re hired! Start in now.

“It may interest you to know that a seaman’s locker is never locked,” said Mr. Ilolmdcn, addressing the jury in defence of a seaman in the Supreme Court in Auckland. “It is the custom to leave them open, and I am instruc ted that this trust is never abused.”

A special feature at Mrs. Balls Boot Store, Main Street, is the wonderful bargains in men’s and ladies’ footwear at present being shown in the window. This stock is being offered at “give-away” prices because it absolutely must be sold. 'They are all good lines, and warrant your inspection.* Alfred James Stanley Uolenso, aged 32, labourer, who appeared before Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice, at Christchurch yesterday, (charged with the murder of Robert William Cocklhurn on September 3rd, was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to three years’ refonnative detention.

(Some time ago an advertisement appeared in the Tirnaru Herald notifying that poison would he laid for rabbits on the Tlighfield links. “Punch,” commenting on this advertisement said: “This would soon depopulate some of our courses here.” (“Rabbit” is a name given to indifferent players).

.Pheasants are being destroyed in great numbers than ever in the Wanganui district as the result of ■the activities of stoats and wen - seds. One landowner about 1.0 miles from Wanganui says he found live hen birds last season which lie knows were attacked by either stoats or weasels. The animals find the liens easy prey during nesting time. “It is a great pity,” said the Recorder of London, “that blackmailers cannot be whipped.” Why cannot they be? asks the London Express. A blackmailer lias neither a heart nor a conscience to he appealed to and reformed. But he has at least a body that can lie and should he made to sailer. “My observation and studies h.ajve not disturbed my basic conviction that we are proceeding slowly towards a nominal economic condition, and will reach it some time within the year 1931,” writes Mr. John E. Edgerton; President of 'the National Association of Mariufatcuvcrs, writing in the Review of Reviews of America. On Tuesday evening the Foxton Surf and Life Saving Chib held a most successful and enjoyable dance in the Masonic Hall. The hall was packed, many visitors being present from the surrounding districts. The music was supplied by Messrs L. Mattar and B. Small, extras being played by Mr. J. Newton. During the evening novelty dances were won as follows: Monte Carlo: Mil-. Cf. Lainibb and Miss Jarvis; Monte Carlo: Mr. E.' Coley and Miss N. Marshall.

A.fc an up-country police-court the other day a tramp was charged with stealing a tin of tobacco from a local general store. It appeared that the man had entered the store to buy matches, found no one behind the counter —and fell for the •'baccy. He pleaded guilty aud his counsel urged that shop-keepers had no right to put temptation iu the way of casual callers by exposing tobacco for sale on their counters —especially tobacco of the popular New Zealand toasted sort, as in this case. The plea was rather a novel one, but it proved effective with the two justices on the Bench, and incidentally served as a fine advertisement for New Zealand toasted tobacco. The toasting process rids the leaf of nearly all its nicotine and imparts to it its line flavour had delicious bouquet. You can smoke this tobacco freely without risk to health. There are only four brands —“Riverhead Gold,” “Cavendish,” “Navy Cut No. 3,” and “Cut Plug No. 10.” But of course there are imitations! —Advt. 132.

If inspiration spurs your soul, To reach, at last, ambition’s goal; Let this your guide and slogan be — “There Breathes No Greater Man

Than Me!” Let not pretensions of the rest, Dishearten or restrain your zest; And when you cough or cold endure Tube Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —21.