LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4528, 8 November 1930, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The funeral of Lady Carroll took place at Gisborne on Thursday and was largely' attended by representative Europeans and Maoris. The cortege whs a very lengthy one. The City Band provided suitable music. The collin was received at the burial ground with (he customary laments. Bishop Bennett, assisted by a number of Native clergy, conducted the service, Lady Carroll’ s remains being laid to rest in a special tomb alongside those ol! her husband.

A problem that lias set a Levin resident thinking is how long it would take a thrush to build a nest and lay two eggs. A truck of goods consigned from Auckland had evidently been side-tracked somewhere in transit for when it arrived in Levin and the consignee was removing the tarpaulin cover he discovered a newly-built nest with two eggs in it in the folds of the coyer, lmt there was no sign of the thrush, which must have lied when the trueik was shunted ou to the train again.—Chronicle.

A number of local residents visiled the Palmerston North" Show yesterday. iStrawherries are at present being picked in Ofaki (says the Mail). A local resident, however, dug new potatoes of a fair size last Thursday. A: torrential downpour occurred locally between (i.3'o and 7 o’clock (.n Thursday evening. Rain fell so heavily that house gutters were tumble to cope with (lie water which simply gushed off the roof iron lo the ground. Gardens and lawns were temporarily inundated. In Main Street gutters were Hooded to such an extent, that in places the water reached on to footpaths and well out into the roadway. The downpour was accompanied by hail and (lashes of lightning. A few claps of thunder were heard. Mr. If. W. Wjlson, writing in the “Daily Mail”- (London) said: “That there is something queer about the present (rude depression everyone 'feels in his mind. Practically till commodities have been steadily failing ever since I lie war boon; collapsed, bill -Ihe (all in the .past lew mouths has been precipitous. Wheal, wool, rubber, sugar, tea, coffee, copper, tin, lead, zinc, silver, Imltcr have dropped to knockout prices. . . . yet the consumer (inils that whatever he has lo buy is jasl as dear as it was a year or two ago.”

Twenty-two years ago, on November (I, 1908, I lie last spike of the North Island Main .Trunk railway was driven by Ibe (ben Prime Minister, Sir .Joseph Ward, near the Ma'ngaiuii-o-te-ao viaduct, half-way between Auckland and Wellington. The ceremony was witnessed by about 400 people, who had arrived in special trains .from the Iwo cities. The trains afterwards proceeded to Auckland, where a banquet was held that evening in honour of tin 1 event. Earlier in the year the whole length of the line had been traversed by a special train which look a, Purlin.iiicnlary party lo and from Auckland on the occasion of (lie visit of: the American licet. The completion of the railway ended 23 years’ work, the first sod having been turned on April 15, 1885, on the boundary of (he King Country, near Te Awamutii, by an earlier Premier, Sir li’obe'ft Stout.

Mrs. Brown tossed the evening paper aside, and, addressing her hubby, remafiked: “The paper sez all we gotter do if we wants good limes back is to work ’ard and chuck all luxuries. 'Ow ab'nhl you chucking your ’liacca?” “All,” said Mr. Brown, “and ’ow aibalil you chucking goin’ to the Pickshers regular?” “And give up the on’y bit of enjoyment 1 ’ave?" inquired Mrs. Brown indignantly, “Not on Aon life!” “Well, smoking is the on’y bit of enjoyment I ’ave,” replied Mr. Brown, “and I’ll see —” —bill never mind what Mr. Brown said hi 1 would see. lie’s like heaps of others, smoking is his only joy! Harmless enough, 100, ,so long as life ’baccy’s pure. Most of the foreign brands are not. Foul with nicotine. Queer, too, because our N.Z. tobaccos are practically free from the 1 poison. But then they are toasted. No others are. Toasting makes them safe to smoke to any extent. Gives them their line 'flavour and bouquet, too. . There are only four brands —“Rivorhoad Gold,” “Navy Cut No. 3,” “Caven.disli," and “Cut .Plug No. 10.” — Advt, 133.