LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2339, 8 January 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Heavy rain prevented play in the Sheffield match at Melbourne, and ii will be resumed to-day.

A labourer from Longburn, David Morrow Crozier, made his third appearance before the Police Court yesterday on the charge of drunkenness and was Aned fl in default three days. The t&xi fare to the lock-up amounted to 3/6 and this was also charged to the accused by Mr. G. H. Espiner. J.P.

Tf we banished from our tables : the commodities which, like salt, have been condemned in print, our diet would be decidedly monotonous. “Pood faddists are most aggressive persons,” Henry Labouchere once complained. ‘Tn my time I have known them preach that %ve should give up meat, tobacco .alcohol, soup, starch (including bread and potatoes; salt, tomatoes, bananas, strawberries, and bath buns. I have also witnessed movements for giving up boots, waistcoats, hats, overcoats, carpets, feather beds, spring mattresses, cold hath, linen clothes, woollen clothes, and lighting fires at the bottom.”

Men’s Bostock “Lyric” shoes In dark tan willow calf—Oxford cut with the latest square toe shape and very fashionable. Usually 45/-. Removal footwear sale price 41/-. The same style in the best English box calf can be obtained for the same price The C. M. Rogs Co. Ltd’s. Big Mov-ing-out Footwear Sale ,

Two B enheim boys of 16 years saw tlio New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition by cycling: from Blenheim to Dunedin, and back. The Watt Motor Co. Ltd., of Pal. merston North, has just been advised that its garage has been appointed official garage to The Wet. lington Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association .

“X congratulate you on your firebrigade,” said Mr R. Husband at the British bowlers’ smoke concert last evening. ”1 ,was a witness of its demonstration in the Square last evening and its performance was a credit to members and to the town.”

The story is told of a member of 'the British bowling team who has the game so indelibly Imprinted on his mind as a result of the long tour, that he left his bowls outside his bedroom door one night. Instead of his boots.

“You are not afraid to borrow money in New Zealand," remarked Mr R. Husband when proposing the toast of the “Municipality” at the smoke concert to British bowlers last evening, “In Scotland if wo warn to norrow money, we have many meetings before we finally decide to take such a step.” (Laughter.) “I have played only two games of bowls In my life,” remarked Mr J. Linklater M.P., at the smoke concert to British bowlers last evening. “One of these was on the Bulls green,” continued the speaker, “and on that occasion I played my political opponent and he beat me. In the political game later, however, the honours were reversed.”

A new wheat, called garnet wheat, which has been developed at the Ottawa Experimental Farm, promises to give a now impetus to wheat production on the prairies of Canada. Marquis wheat reduced the period of time between sowing and reaping from 120 to 110 days, and brought millions of acres in Western Canada within the wheat belt. Garnet wheat reduces this period still further to 100 days and will push the wheat belt still further north. But its .greatest value is looked for in its greater freedom from rust, which usually attacks wheat in the last ten days. At the Magistrate’s Court, Napier the other day, the torch of history lit up a phase of what has come to be known as the “double-crossing, the bar” case (states the “Telegraph"). Mr B. J. Dolan, said that his friend, the inspector of police ,ln instituting the prosecution, reminded him of no more than the notorious Fouche, head of police during the French Revolution .whose special function it was to take up the Statute Books and spell new crimes out of them. "Fouche sent his victims ito the guillotine, did he not?" said Mr Dyer S.M., amidst It ugh ter. "Yes, your Worship," said Mr Dolan, "and nothing would please the inspector this morning more than to see the tumbrils filled with barristers and law students.” (Laughter).