NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 October 1924, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEW STEAMSHIP SERVICE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 11, 9.40 a.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 11. The Patrick Steamship Company commenced running yesterday, when the steamer Mawatta- left for Melbourne with a full general cargo. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. MELBOURNE, Oct. 11. The Federal Parliament has completed its 'business and has gone into recess until a date to be fixed. TASMANIAN GOVERNORSHIP. Received ‘Oct. 11., 11.30 a.m LONDON, Oct. 10. Captain James O’Grady has been appointed Governor of Tasmania. —Reuter Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective of fiction, smoked strong black shag tobacco and derived inspiration from it when puzzling over some problem of more than ordinary complexity. Shag; is too full-flavoured for many smokers. It contains a lot. of nicotine, and excess of nicotine is a bad. thing. The habitual use of such tobacco is bound sooner or later to affect tlic consumer injuriously. Unfortunately practically all imported tobaccos are heavily charged with nicotine. And in that respect they differ essentially from our New Zealand-grown tobaccos, the comparatively small amount of nicotine which constitutes one of their • chief recommendations. Also —and this is important—they, are all toasted, and toasting brings out the flavour of the leaf in a most remarkable way. There are several brands of this popular tobacco. Riverliead Gold mild, Navy Cflt (Bulldog label) medium, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull ’s Head) full strength. Each of them has its merits. That seasoned smoker, Sherlock Holmes, would doubtlessly prefer the last named. .—lB