Manawatu Herald SATURDAY. NOV. 15, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4531, 15 November 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY. NOV. 15, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. Ball, of the Main Street Boot, Store, announces that in addition id the unapproachable '’nines offered in all classes of Footwear, one I'niversiil Coupon wdl, also he given for every 2/(i spent in purchases. Valuable prizes are given for these coupons.*

It is reported that recently as a result of a dispute on one ot Marlborough's principal slice], stations, the whole gang of shearers, shepherds, musterers, etc., employed tor shearing, including the wool elasser, walked off the property on one morning, leaving two-thirds of the 10,000 slice]) still to he shorn. The trouble is stated to have started through a dispute between the station owner and the men’s cook.

Someone lias been telling fish stories to a correspondent of the Daily Mail (England), who writes: —“At Rotorua, in the North Island of New Zealand, there is a breeding pool for trout. Any number ot them have risen from the water and eaten bread from my hand. One large trout —they call him the Admiral —keeps ‘the order of the line.’ After bread crumbs have been thrown to the lisli he solemnly swims down '.lnstream, making the small keep to the far side. The last admiral kept his place for many years, until lie was challenged and killed by the present holder of the title.”

Aii ex-Ne\y Zealander, now in London, relates how strolling' along War dour Street, Soho, he noticed a wooden pipe of Maori workmanship in the window of an old cariosity shop. Although quite old it had never been smoked. It was elaborately carved a chief’s head, with staring pawn shell eyes. The buyer re-sold it for £lO. As a curio it was worth the money, but so far as smoking goes any pipe will do. All pipes become foul sooner or later. When foreign tobacco is used il is sooner, because it’s so full of nicotine. Our N.Z. tobacco is not like that. It’s toasted, and the toasting largely eliminates the poison. That’s why you can smoke toasted so confidently. Can’t do you any harm. Four brands only of these famous tobaccos “Wiverhcad Gold,” “Navy Cut No. 3,” “Cavendish,” and “Cut Plug* No. 10.” There are Absolutely no other toasted brands on the market, and all four are noted for their exquisite aroma and delicious flavour. They represent the world’s purest tobaccos. —Advt. 136.

Visitors and residents at the Chateau, National Park, have been pur,/.led by the midnight appearance of a phantom motor-car. On several occasions recently the powerful headlights of a swiftlyapproaching cai', the beams of which flash now into the sky and now across the white expanse of snow lying in front of the Chateau, have been seen by people waiting for the night trains. After showing vividly for a few minutes the lights disappear, and no further sign is seen either of headlights or ear. So real is the apparition that one of the Chateau service drivers on his nightly run to the National Park station, seeing . dazzling headlights on the narrow road, pulled aside to allow the car to pass. He was astonished to find that no car eaime and that the lights vanished, and although he watched carefully, he saw no ear at all right to the end of the road. 'So far no natural explanation has been found for this phenomenon, which is all the more incredible as there is no habitation at all on the road, nor any side roads by which a ear could come and go. When Youth’s Alluring Charm Hath Fled, And all its dreams and hopes lie dead; The surest solace we shall find, Is in the culture of the mind. In youth, and infancy, and age, Whate’er of life may be our stage; For colds we find one solace sure, lu southing Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt, 24.

The discovery of the fate of the little hoy in Gisborne who disappeared from the Gisborne Agricultural Show last year brings to mind a. similar ease at the month of the Pa tea River many years ago (relates an exchange). A hoy disappeared from among his playmates, who were having a picnic at the breakwater, and no trace of him was ever seen again. The hoy's name was Larking, the youngest son of a very numerous family of hoys, all of whom were expert swimmers. The mother .always (dung to the idea that he had been carried off by a travelling hand of showmen who were in the district at the time. Just as in the case of the Gisborne hoy, efforts were, made all over New Zealand and Australia to trace him, hut. without, any result. The general opinion was that the hoy had slipped into the river and been drowned, ulthough his parents said that if he had. got into the water he would. have struck out and been able to keep afloat; till he attracted nllention. Not one of the 20 or more hoys who were at the picnic with him could give an account ol! his disappearance, and for more than 30 years his mother never gave up hope that one day she would see her son again.