SCHOONER ASHORE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 18, 23 January 1919, Page 6

SCHOONER ASHORE.

(Press Association-Copyright.) (Rec. 10.35 a.m.) SUVA, This Day. The schooner Espada, bound from Leyuka to San Francisco, is ashore cn a reef near Numbualau Island, about twenty miles south of Levuka. She has a cargo of six hundred tons of c< pra. Tt is feared that the vessel will become <» toUl wreck. The crew is safe.

Hockey one! Hockey two! Are you a hockey player? Very well, then, what about your hockey stick? Did you know that, we could supply the best sticks On the market to-day at cheapest E rices? We can. Write now^—W. J. eater and Co., 105 Customhouse Quay, Wellington.*

According to New Zealand tobaccomerchants, stocks of imported weed are running very low throughout the Dominion, and a further rise in the prhe can only be a question of ■ ime. Fo. tunateiy this country is no finger entirely dependent on imported tobaccos-. The N.Z.-fgrown article is becoming increasingly popular, and ane of the reasons is doubtlessly its email percentage of nicotine—only per cent., against 4 per cent, in imported brands. Quite recently the manufacturers are adopting a new process in (he production of their well-known l.rflnd,< “GoH Pouch” and “Three Diarm ids.” This tobacco is now toasted md lust exactly as cooking and roasting makes yni'* foodi more palatable and digestible. «•» the flavour of tobacco is impioved by toasting; it is made t.ea.tiFr, too. Smokers should not fail ,‘o try this new toasted tobacco. Two fall curues for » shilling.*