Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1924.

Shannon News, 21 October 1924, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1924.

Mr H. Greedy, who is severing- in. connection with, the Miranui Flaxmming ■Co., oi WiHioli he has held the position Qi manager lor some years, is to be tendered a farewell social at tide mill on Thursday evening by the employees. Durilng the past levy days the Mayor .and Town. Clerk nave oeen inundated with enquiries as to tlie (laic oi turning on oi' t'iie power irom Manguliao. We have been asked to state iihat the date has not. yet been rixed, hut as soon' as it is Known u will De mad© public. Advice was received 'on Saturday by the* Ib-vyn Clerk (Mr J. T. Boas; tfiat tine Governor-General (Lord Jeilicoe) will bq unable to attend the Junction at 'Shannon in connection with the turning on Qi' the power from Mtingahao.

Last evening a number of Dr. Macdonaid's fehanmoii friends met at the residence Qi Mr T. Watte'rston to bid turn iarewe.il oeiore i leaving on ins visit to the Old Country. During tn. evening, Mr Murray, on behalf oi iiiose present, in presenting tlie Dr. vvlth a brief 'hag, referred to his many fine qualities,, wishing him u. voyage and a, speedy return. Dr. Macdonaid expects to 'sjailon the 24)tii mst.

uie unusually heavy rains iliruuyh'Ouii aiq district uiuing uiu pa.se ie\\ daiys jiiave caused Ujiiiount oi water to; muiiv uip in t-ne I'Uivv-lying districts aoout toinunnou. ■jlius morning tlie water, is lying on ootii siues! }oi tne s>top!-haiiks winiie tne Manawatu river is still rising. ;r'uri»uua;teiy pho . weatner' has now taKen up otherwise matters looked (serious l.or many of the farmers tiniougiiout the district. Jbrie uj.etii,. soiicitoi-, of Wairoa, was lined tor failing to sena in ins income tax returns.

Tne Department of Agricukuie •is investigating a statement that stoats and weasels are Killing young Jambs in the Waikato. Une farmer :ouuu &i lambs one -morning and 14 another ail lying dead vyitdi punctured wo.unds upon the flank' near the heart.

Tuesday last was the s#nd anniversary of the founding of the original settlement of Dannevirke (DanesWork) by the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish families, who landed at Napier on September 18th, 1872, irom the ship Hovdig, and later went en to the district where Dannevirke now is.

One of the biggest deals in fat cattle ever recorded in Otago has taken place, Messrs Barton and Trengrove having purchased f'rQm Mr Peter Anderson, Qf Stirling, 190 head of prime bullocks at £26 per head, the total purchase price being £11,870. It ir understood that two CatiristOhurch butchers were prospective buyers. Mr Fiank' Bell, of Waikeinu, utago, on Friday and featuraay and Suuuay nignts tstaniished wireless, catnmuuica.ii.ion, senaiiig and -receiving niessages, vvitU Mr G.oyder, of Tins is a distance oi Ii.OUO miles and is the first occasion qu which a twoway exchange has taken place oetween JSlew Zealand and England. Sheep at 8s 6d and 9s 6d a dozen, good stores at Hd each, and splendiu merino lambs for Is id. A local resident, showed a Wanganui Clironicie reporter a letter /written from the Middlemairch district in. Otago. in 1895. It was written at the end of a very dry summer, and with the prospect of a drab outlook for the coming winter stock was selling at the. prices mentioned.

The very satisfactory pay-out of Is 7a per lb for butterfat lias been made by the Levin Co-op. Dairy Co. for the September-October period. This figure, which corresponds with that paid out v for tho same period of 1923, becomes even more satisfactory from the fact that, owing to the early •apd mild season enjoyed, supplies are considerably larger than obtained! at this, time last year.

"If there is any beautiful spot m ( diamond" Nelson was not sufficiently advertised abroad, he added. 'ilie reduced tobacco, duties wh>cii operate Uroin January 17 next, are exDieted to result m a lower retail Sic e lor cut pipe and plug tobaccos oi one penny per twoi ounces, duties on cigarettes and cigarette tonaceo are not att.ect.ed. An activity worthy of the higher , commendation lias oeen undertaken bv «hfl local troop oi Boy beo.uts, in the care Qi' graves otherwise neglected in toe local cemetery, ipi. past three Saturday afternoons the troop tq the number of forty, have worked cd.earing up long grass .ana wieeds and generally putting the craves in good condition. It is succeeds as this Which has gained ior Te organisation its wonderful popularity throughout -tfxe world and the originator of the local effort is deserving of the thanks, of the whole community.

A four-roomed house on the pro- j pei'fty' oi Messrs Armstrong Bros..' xliakara,' was totally destroyed ny fire on Sunday, It appears tnat uowners were ahsent q» Sunday evenulff and the fire was first discoyereu by a neighbour, the front portion oi the building being at that tune a mass of flames. An attempt was made to effect an entrance from the back in order to save some of the contents, but this foiled owing to :he iUeat and smoke. Within hall an hour the house, which was an olu one, was totally destroyed, The insurances were £4OO on the bmluing j and' £6O on the furniture m the State Office.

A well-known Wairarapa farmer, in chatting oyer the-prices received at Addington for Wiair,ar&pa stock, said the could hot understand why South Island sales should be the barometer of fat stock prices. Certainly- cattle were scarcer in tne south 'than in the north, but he considered there was no legitimate reason why the Wairarapa, which is centrally situated between north and south could not organise a fat stock sale capable of attracting purchasers from all parts, instead of breeders (having ibo scour for markets to place their stock to advantage. He thought the auctioneering firms might well consider the question of establishing a fat stock sale in the Wairarapa. "Why do they have man-traps like this on the road?" was the indignant inquiry made by two ladies, recent arrivals from England. The ladies evidently were not used to the ways of the drainlayers' in and w/hile crossing a road .they were so unthinking as t.Q tread on the apparently firm, but actually soft, filling of the drain (states the Guardian). They very quickly sank up to their knees, and the, excited confusion -hat followed brought, them the assistance of passers-by, who rescued them from the quagmire. The passage to their place of ajbode was slow, and words were many. In the opinion of two people Ashburton as a pleasure resort has fallen below zero. ' ine following illuminating conversation occurred in trout oj, toe Victoria Hall, invercargiii, on tne occasion oi the uovernor-ueneral's civic farewell, between ■an oovious "wayback" who had just returned from a sojourn of years in the wilds beyonu Tuatapere, and a local borough official (states the local limes). I'hc innocent one: "What's all. the excitement about?." Official: "This is trie Governor-General's Givio farewell. The innocent one; "Who is the Gov-ernor-General?" Official: "Lord Jellicoe, of. course." Innocent que, becoming ■ vastly excited: "NQt that chap that was "in the Battle of Jutland? Official,' greatly amused: "Yes, the sarnie man." Innocent one: "Great scott! I didn't know he had left the Navy. I wonder if a bloke could get into this show."

A letter written by the captain c the Tregenna, a cargo, boat., to the cliaifiiian of the Wanganui Harbour Board, irom Beira, Portuguese Last Africa, illustrates, how. tramp steamfers see the world. He jsays: "ino doubt you will lie surprised when you see vy.uere we are now. I will t-r\ and explain Jiow Aye got here. yQU know we went to Wallaroo, an loaded a cargo gf wheat for, Siiaiiyhal. -llien we went to Nagasaki aiu, bunkered. Then we went down to the Pacific Islands—JKaevieng, in New Britain Island; Madangj, on the nortneast coast, of New Guinea, and i?abaul, in New. Ireland Island. We loaded a full cargo of copra for Marseilles. We came home in ballast, and commenced loading, at Middlesbro and London on the B.ritis'h-India berth I'Qr Port Said, Suez, port Sudan, Aden, Mombassa, Zanzibar au Dar-es-Saalam, our last port being Beira. We are loading at the same ports homewards for Marseilles. Pauailac (near Bordeaux), and London."

You huv©. tried toasted bi'ead, toasted bacon, toasted cheese, and possibly toasted kidneys, pel .know how goo.< they all are. But have you evej smoked tQasted tobaccos? The toastI ing process, as you know,, develops I flavour in the case of all the above ! mentioned edibles—-and it lias precisely the same effect in the case o* tobacco, Yqui can easily satisfy yourself as to the truth of this assertion because our New. Zealand grown tobaccos are all toasted. That is one reason wftiy tfiey appeal so strongly to smokers- Another reason is that they contain (comparatively) but. little nicotine, and may consequently be smoked all day long without producing those unpleasant effects that frequently follow the prolonged smoking of imported tobaccos, all of them (more W less) loSded with nicotine. For a cool, sweet and fragrant smoke try Riverhead Gold mild, Navy Cut rßnlldosr label) medium, or Cut Plug f?o, MI (Bfufll-i Head) full steengll.. There is no mischief in any of Uie.-e ibrands, and the rapidly increasing demand for them is the most convincing proof of iiheir popularity .-

The Wanganui education Board received a letter from a teacher asKina for permission to give religious instruction at her school ' in .school hours In support of her application she pointed out that some of t#e children rarely entered a church, and never received a scriptural lesson:at home, in the face of a resolution previously carried, the Board could not agree to the request. The Wanganui Automobile Association wrote the Education Board suggesting instructions in schools in regard to reckless walking in the streets. Mr Durward (a member) said that when people'spend £6OO on a car it was a pity to spoil then pleasure. He suggested that pedestrians should not be allowed to use the roads between sunrise and sunset. A member remarked that evidently Mr Durward did not own a car '"I do." replied Mr Durward

Mr By-ron Brown, of Otaki, who has travelled through 'America, France),' and England, was delighted with las peregrinations in. Gray Paree, and in one of his letters states:—"Now for Paris: This old Latin City of the beauty loving French is a thing of beauty and a joy for,ever. Napoleon put the whole of Europe and Egypt under tribute and he collected the finest art treasures of the old world and middle ages. They are all in Paris, but there is nothing more beautiful than the French people's memorial to the greatest soldier of the modern world. As Ingersol says: -'lt is lit almost for a dead deity.' -The Palace Musee du Louvre is the greatest" storehouse of all this plunder from the capitols of Europe. It has five miles of galleries filled with marble statues, paintings, and .every imaginable work of art of every age and from every clime. They are, with slight imagination, living, breathing, pulsing things, that require another flight of the imagination to believe, they are painted on canvas or carved out of stone. Here are the originals of thousands of pictures that we, in N.Z., have seen copies of. We have admired the copi'es and they are beautiful, yet as poor an attempt at the real thing as a mundane man would be to a Gre'ek god. Great,l modern artists are to be found along the galleries painting copies: of these pictures, and their efforts are wonderful, but even my inartistic self could never be deceived in a choice between the old master and the modern imitation. The Louvre, with its five miles of art, does not contain all the Paris treasures. There are scores of other storehouses in and around Paris that are equally well filled with equally fine art treasures— things that were done by men for the joy of the working, when no one worked for money, or ever bothered about fame. Yet fanie has come to them in a day in a manner they little dreamed of. Bo may it be said of Shakespeare, of Dante, of Homer, ot Milton, of Sappho. These painters, sculptors, and poets gave their havcri•born dreams to a world for nothing, which to-day money cannot buy. The French have an inbred love of beauty. Every Boulevard and avenue is planted with trees, and this exception, the Avenue de I'Opera. I suppose they left this one bare to show how beautiful the others are by comparison. This Avenue de I'Opera leads up to the finest opera house in the world. I heard Faust in this spacious palace of rare and nameless marble. The performance was uot anything wonderful, in fact it left much tb be desired, but the con-

templation oi ! the building was .worth the 50 francs paid for the seat. 1 thought of the great actors and singers who had graced the stage and whose graves are to be found in, the quaint old cemeteries of Paris. I saw some

of these great names carved in stone in sequestered works of beautiful old resting places. Napoleon is everywhere. The French have made a deity of him and whole palaces and buildings are •Jillcd with memories of his victories.

Naploeon's tomb: It is here that the French hero worships, and love of

beauty finds a vent. This Imperial impersonation sleeps in silent grandeur in a resting place more marvellously rich and beautiful than any man the world has ever known; it takes one's breath away in a wonderment of magnificence." i i __________