Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4401, 6 October 1934, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the Olaki Spring meeting yesterday Mr F. S. Easton’s Manawatu (Iv. F. Robinson) ran third in the Kapiti Hurdles. To-day u ran second to revision.

The peg-dressing competition conducted at the last meeting of the Foxton Women’s Institute was won bv Mrs R. Byne. of Foxon.

Tomato production in the Nelson district is worth at least £60,000 a year, even at a depressed level of prices. Most of the enormous yield is grown in glasshouses. A return boxing match at Gisborne last night, between Leu Knuckley (Hastings), 8.7, and Billy McKay (Gisborne), 8.3, resulted in a knock-out victory for Knuckley in the tenth and last round. Macdonald and Son, painters and paperhangers, .Johnston St., Foxton, insert an advertisement in this issue r<s spring cleaning in the latest decoration water colours — cheapness, durability, originality. The death took place in the Dunedin Hospital last night of Katrina May Burge, a. nurse at that institution, who suffered, a fractured spine when the car she was driving collided with a telegraph post, at Lawrence last Sunday. Deceased was 23 years of age. A further remand of one week was granted Allan James McLeavey, solicitor, charged with the tii-e±*t, at various dates, of £642 15s 2d, the property of the estate of the late W. L. Child, at the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Bail was renewed as before. A Gazette notice announces amendments to the telephone regulations to provide for the institution of and charges for the pei-son-to-persou telephone toll service, for an alteration to the- charges for certain toll calls to which there is no reply and also to provide for charges for rendering daily accounts for toll calls.

A correspondent writes to the “Standard” with reference to the meaning of “Manawatu,” stating: “This river was called ‘Manawatu’ meaning ‘The Depressed Spirit, h\ I-lau. He was following his erring wife and her lover and when he came to this river it was in Hood and he could not cross it.” [“Manawatu” refers to the belly or heart; “tu” to stand. It may be translated to mean: “I am out of breath.’ ” —Ed. H.] The inhabitants of the bush village of Nowcndoe, near , Wale ha, New South Wales, have lately been terrorised by the doings of a Russian, ' Alexandes Harrast, who camped in the hills, possessing firearms and eluding the local police for a long time, Harrast onJThursday met his fate at. the hands of Constable James Gilroy, who pursued him on horseback and called on him to surrender. Harrast refused and began to attack the constable with a stick and was finally shot dead.

The annoyance and danger caused by bees being kept on the roadside formed the' subject of a complaint from a Piakan ratepayer to the Inglewood County Council at its last meeting. The ratepayer said 40 hives of bees had been placed under his hedge on a public road and with the approach of the warm weather the bees were beginning to be very active. It was nearly impossible to go 'along the road without being stung. He had already been stung, as he used the road every day for the purpose of feeding stock he asked that the bees be removed. The council decided to ask the bee-keeper to remove the bees.

A legacy of £2OO to the Presbyterian Church at Clevedon is provided for in the will of Mis’ Abigail McNicol, of Clevedon, who died on September 6. The money is left to the church property trustees to invest and use the income for the upkeep of the manse and church grounds. The estate of the testatrix m valued for probate purposes at under £2500. The latest information in con-

nection with the identity of the. holder of ticket number- 160,475, which won the first prize of £12,000 in a consultation drawn at Hobart, Tasmania, is that a Wairoa county roadman expected a ticket in the lottery, but it has not yet come to hand. The initials in the press message, “J.D.” were those used by the roadman’s wife. The audience at- the Gisborne Choral Society’s concert in the City Hall, Gisborne, on Wednesday night, was greatly alarmed when the Savage Club’s, musical director, Mr Mainland Foster, suddenly collapsed as he was about to claim the attention of the orchestra before the commencement of an overture. It was feared that Mr. Foster had suffered a sudden illness, and there was general consternation until it was announced that; Mr Foster had accidentally put one foot; over the edge of the conductor’s stand and had overbalanced’. Mr. Foster (ell heavily and was dazed for some time, but was later able to resume conducting the orchestra.

Exceptional activity was apparent at: Whakarewarewa on Wednesday. Pohutu Geyser was again active, and Wednesday morning’s display would probably have rivalled any display of year past. At 10 o’clock the Cauldron shot boiling- water about 6ft. into the air and was intensively active. It is many years since the Cauldron has shot water and it was the centre of attraction. Unfortunately not many visitors passed through the reserve on Wednesday morning and few witnessed this unusual spectacle. Waikorohihi and the Prince of Wales Geysers were also playing. Waikite was likewise very active.

The crossing of mallard with grey and even Indian Runner ducks has evidently added perplexities to the prosecution of persons charged with illegally shooting the progeny. A case was cited at the conference of acclimatisation societies in which a man prosecuted, for shooting a nondescript dnolle would have been the prosecution had been able to say whether the bird was either a mallard or a grey duck. As it was definitely neither, hut a. mixture of both, the case failed. It was therefore decided to urge that imported or native game in the regulations include birds that are purebred, and birds included in cither term —imported or native game —which have crossed with any other wild or domestic birds, and which remain in a wild state. “Alfred!” said the better (and bigger) half -to the partner of her joys and sorrows as she invaded the smoker of the To Aroha train in quest of him, “if you smoke that pipe you’ll be ill! Remember tinlast. time!” Everybody laughed, while poor Alfred tried hard to look as if he were enjoying himself. Pitying his confusion his neighbour said “Perhaps you’re smoking the wrong tobacco? It’s easy to do that!” “I wish 1 he’d stop smoking altogether,” remarked the lady acidly. Here Alfred produced a bit of da ilk twist and showed it to the other man. “Too much nicotine in that.” pronounced the old smoker. “Know the brand. Couldn’t smoke it myself. Why not try toasted New Zealand? Beats the band —and quite harmless. Yom see it’s toasted. Start with Riverhead Gold. You’ll enjoy it.” Alfred said he would. He’s wise. By the way, there are five brands of toasted — Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead) and Desert Gold. Connoisseurs pronounce them “unequalled for purity—(comparative freedom from nicotine’—flavour and bouquet.” They are! —Advt.