NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3832, 16 August 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

It was Abraham Lincoln who said: —“When you buy imported (or outside) goods, you have only the goods. Wjhen you buy goods that are made in your own country you have both the money and the goods.” The practice of allowing sheep access to new haystacks has its drawbacks, as an Ashburton County farmer has recently discovered (says an exchange). He noticed a greenish tint on the top of the lleeces. Examination showed that:

loose grass seed had fallen into the fleeces, succeeding rains and sunny weather aiding germination. Ancients in modern days! Julius Caesar, at one time employed on Sydney coal hulks, died at Narrabecn, N.S.W., the other day. Oliver Cromwell and John Dryden have both been on the charge sheets of Sydney’s police courts, and William /Shakespeare appeared in a case as a witness. He could neither read nor write.

A request from anglers in the Shannon district that English perch be introduced to the lower or Ara■peti dam connected with the Man-g-ahao works was unfavourably received by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last week. It was pointed out that New Zealand was credited with having the best trout fishing in the world, and as perch would crowd the trout out, there was no advantage in filling New Zealand streams with inferior fish. To find a full stick of dynamite which had fallen out of the coal scuttle on to the hearth before the fire, was the good if somewhat alarming fortune of a South Invercargill resident the other day (says an exchange). The discovery may be regarded as fortunate, as the odds were many to one that, having found its way into one scuttle, the gelignite would have gone into the fire undetected. His little children were playing in front of the fire in the early evening, when the householder noticed a sausage-shaped substance about six inches long in the hearth.

“In New Zealand you speak English,” said a midshipman on one of the Japanese warships while they were at Auckland (reports an exchange). “In Australia it was very different. It was difficult at first to understand the people of Australia, for, you see, I had been taught the English of the ‘England l or.’ Therefore, I can understand you, and I am very happy.” The language difficulty was, lie added, caused by the average Australian’s complete disregard for the vowel sounds. 'The average New_ Zealander was more careful in this respect. The result was that, the foreigner found that the British tongue, as spoken overseas, a little more easy to follow in our Dominion than in the Commonwealth. “I think we shall all be happier if we smoke.” Thus Mr. Justice Fraser when presiding at a prolonged sitting of the Transport Appeal Board at Auckland recently. His Honour then lit up and his example was speedily r followed by 7 counsel, clerks, reporters and onlookers. The judge evidently believes in the power of tobacco to make people happy. So it. does. But it must be the right sort of tobacco. Most of the imported brands reek with nicotine. Such tobacco never made anyone happy —for long. The purest brands of all are those produced here in New Zealand. They possess not only an exquisite flavour but a peculiarly delightful fragrance, and owing to their containing only a comparatively small amount of nicotine you can smoke them all day long if you want to without suffering any 7 unpleasant or injurious after-effects. Any 7 tobacconist will supply you. Ask for “Riverliead Gold” if y 7 ou are accustomed to a mild aromatic, “Navy Cut" (Bulldog), if you prefer something stronger; but if you like a full flavoured sort try “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead).