The Levin Daily Chronicle WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1936, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlio ticket which recently drew the second prize of £2OOO in a Hobari consultation is held by Mr. James Hickton, a Jabourer, single, in the employ of* the Koiro Estate, Taumarumii, which is owned by "Air. Hope Gibbons, of Wanyanui. Mr. Hickton is well-known in the , King Country, where he lias followed bush work for several years. He named the syndicate owing- to his success when he backed a racehorse of that name.

First demolished by the gale, a house lon the Ashluirst-Siberia road, in the Palnierston Xorth district, ocupied by Mr. and Mrs. C. Brill and their two (laughters and two sonfc, has been completely destroyed by fire. The occupants had left the building and, it is understood, were then at a neighbour's residence. They lost all but what they stood up in. Mr. Brill was discharged from hospital only recently, find the shock of the loss was a severe blow to him.

When a New Plymouth Rowing Club oarsman droped his set of false teeth in the sea while practising on November .18. he gave the teeth up as lost. The denture, however, has been restored by a strange trick of fate. Apparently, when the teeth sank in the deep waters of the port they were swallowed by a gurnard. The other day the gurnard took the bait of a fisherman sitting on the Newton King Wharf and was hauled out. The teeth were found scarcely altered in appearance. They have been identified and restored to their surprised owner.

A retired Palmerstonian, born in 185-1, who realises the restorative effect of regular exercise and the enjoyment of vigorous health in what many people consider extreme old age, lives on onethird the quantity of food consumed by the average man. He rises at 5 a.m. after a sound night's sleep, and cultivates his quarter-acre. From vegetables he raised enough for his household and sold £lO4 worth to a greengrocer last year. He cannot understand why men should be unemployed, and does not know what indifferent health is. He enjoys every hour and spends his hours of rest with his books and other good friends.

For stowing away on the Monowai, which arrived from Sydney on Monday, Frederick Nataniel Pilcher. aged 2!», at the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, was fined £7 10s, the (•mount of the fare. Pilcher, who pleaded '.guilty, was allowed a fortnight in which to pay. Pilcher left New Zealand in October with his wife and child to seek work in Sydney, but had been unsuccessful, and had been penniless in Sydnes, said the senior-sergeant. His wife and child had remained «*itli relatives ihcre. He had given himself up to i fourth officer the morning -after the ship left Sydney. Nothing was known against him.

"Old books, old wine, oldtimes, old friends!" quoted a well-known Auckland clubman, the other night, in the smoke-room, "and 1 would add, gentlemen, an old pipe!" He he produced a shorty thick stemmed and massive briar with blackened bowl. "This venerable pipe," he continued, "is a tried and trusty friend. Thousands of miles has it journeyed with me by land and sea and many a brand of baccy has' it known—but none to conrpare with Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), to my mind the king of all tobaccos!" Here he stuffed the old pipe with his favourite blend, and lighting up, leant back in his chair at peace with all the world! Cut Plug No # 10 (Bullshead), it is scarcely necessary to add, is one of the five beautiful toasted tobacc >s so popular with smokers. The others are: Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. These famous brands are not only delicious but quite harmless. The "bite" has been eliminated by toasting! They are imitated—but never equalled! Never even approached !

One line of £25 and three of £1.5 were imposed on Chinese by Mr # J. 11. Luxford, X.M., in the Magistrate's

Court ; Wellington, yesterday, as the result of a raid on a house in Haining '{Street by a party of police from tlie ) Mount Cook station about 10 ociOik on Monday night.

Known to the public as the wrestler "Tony Seminoff," Jack Juronovoich appeared before Mr. Justice Smith and a jury in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday charged with theft from the steamer Anglo-Canadian of 10 handstamping machines, valued at £lO, the property of Excelsior Supplies, Ltd., and, alternatively, with receiving the machines knowing them to have'been dishonestly obtained, lie wa s found not guilty on both counts, and was accordingly discharged.

Films have been made of the storm damage in the Manawatu district for an Australian uewsreel and were yesterday morning rushed to Wellington to connect with the Sydney boat leaving from there in the afternoon. Sydney cinema-goers will be amazed to see the extent of the damage suffered «in tin? Manawatu area alone, and no doubt the sympathy they will feel will be born of the realisation that tin? terrible visitation New Zealand has just suffered is probably the equal of any Australia lias had within recent years.