LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 15 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It will be remembered that a few months ago the Trustees of the Suter Art Gallery purchased with part of the interest of the Besloy request, a fine picture, entitled ‘"A Lady in Fancy Dress,” by Ronald Gray. As showing the high esteem in which thus artist isheld, it is interesting to note that another painting bv him, a portrait, called ‘‘My Mother,” has just been purchased by the, nation under the terms of the C hantroy bequest.

“Which would you rather do, pay a fine of 40s ,or give this son of yours a good thrashing?” asked Mr If. K. Hunt, S.M.. in the Auckland .Juvenile Offend(,lU - Court, says the Herald, of the father of a boy, aged 13, who appeared on a charge of using obscene language. “Oh, 1 will give him a good hiding. I think,’ said the boy’s parent. The magistrate adjourned the* case for two weeks, stating that no more would be said if the probation officer reported the voitth had received the promised thranhing. Twelve strokes of the birch were ordered to- be given to another youth who appeared for sentence on charges of stealing mnne\ from his employer. It was staled that a position on a dairy farm had been found for the hoy.

The delegates of the Canterbury Cricket Association last night again refused the application of Old Collegial a and the Hoys’ High School Cricket Clubs for admission as senior clubs on the ground that other clubs would he serious!v weakened. —Press Associat ion.

General regulations have been gazetted for tbe protection of life and property in ships. These provide that every narbour board shall supply and keep readily assembled on every wharf which is under its control, and on. or from which cargo iy larded or shipped, a stretcher for use in ease of accident in the hold, or holds, of any ship berthed thereat. The stretcher shall be constructed to tbe 'specification of St. John Ambulance Society, and provided with ..lingo so its to enable it to he safely lifted from the ship's hold by the ship's .or 'ilmre, liftv.rg gear, and no injured person shall be lifted by any other means. All Half Price floods strictly rash. No approbation. Thursday, at .McKay's.* It commences to-morrow at 9 a.in. Trathen's Great Thrift Week.*

Ladies’ Buckram llat Shapes, clearing at 1 each, at McKay's Half Price Sale, Thursday.* Come often to Tratlien’c- Thrift Week. New bargains to be introduced daily Ladies' Knitted Waistcoats in fancy •shades', smart and useful, 6/11 each. — McKay’s Sale.* The bargains will be wonderful at IViitben's Thrift Week.*

Keen price cutting at Trathen’s Thrift Week.*

Turn to Page 7 for Big Half Page Advt. of Half Price Goods at McKay's Sale.*

The Topic of Conversation—TratheiiT Thrift Week * The attention of readers is directed tr 'no special circular with this issue, announcing Trathen's Thrift Week. Thursday at 9 a.m.., at McKuv’s, for Wonderful Bargains in Half Price Goods.*

The youth George Campbell, who was seriously injured on Sunday on the steamer Orepuki. is still in a n unconscious condition at, the Nelson Hospital.

During a music, hall trapeze act, in the Belleville quarter of Paris, a man, suspended in mid-air by his feet, was holding a woman with I)is teeth. The man was taken suddenly ill, and lei go his hold. Both tell to the floor, and tlm man was removed to the hospital in a dving condition. The woman was not seriously injured.

Mr 11. M. Hutchinson, of Philadelphia. who for ten years had a chronic headache, was instantly relieved by a paroxysm of sneezing which .seized him while being shaved. Tile sneeze dislodged a piece of a steel drill, and inch ami a-half long, from his nasal tubes. The man. who is an electrician, states that. 12 years ago he was stabbed through the bridge of the nose during a light. with a fellow-workman. Jhe wound healed, and for two years gave him no further trouble, but the headaches then started

(Jut ancestors cannot be accuser of taking tneir W liilsunttue pleasures

sailiy, as witness tile account of Uiu W tut Monday celebration at itenilon m iiou. A prize oi a goJutaeed liat was oner, d m a grinning l lirougli lhc-liorse-o, iar compel ii ion. .vooce li*e heads oi me six candidates was a notice, “Detur leiriori ; or "ltio ugliest grimier shall ue the winner." Eacho entrant grinned live minutes by himself, and hnaitv ait si.v grinned together. There was an ticsustained objection to the winner on the ground that lie had acted unfair!'’ by r.nsmg Ills mouth with vinegar. The ua,\ s merrymaking was concluded by a hog limit. Apig whose tail bad been shaved and soaped was ...

anyone who could seize it by the tail and throw it across bis shoulder was entitled to keep it as a- reward. It is leeorded, however, that nobuity succeeded in accomplishing the task- The animal, after vunmug some miles, so tired its pursuers that they gave up the chase, m despair.

You are only 25; you should try and get some work, ’ said .Mr J. W. i’oyii ton. S.M., to a man who appeared Indore him at Auckland. 'Are your people alive?” "No, they are in Dannevirke, sir" was the reply. "A meeting of the Dannevirke Chamber of Commerce may follow in refutation of your suggestion that life in Dannevirke is synonymous with death."—Star.

A fine of £7 10s watt imposed on O. T. Brown at the Wanganui Magistrate's Court for speeding in the Avenue (says the Chronicle;. ihe defendant who did not appear, was prosecuted by the city inspector (Mr Geo. Fear). The inspector informed the court that Brown proceeded down the Avenue at a speed of 35 miles an hour, and when stopped and interrogated as to the necessity for the speed, merely said he was in a hurry. .Mr Tear said that he informed the defendant that he was 'speeding at 35 miles. Brown replying ‘‘Make it 30— that will make it lighter.” (Laughter). There is a pretty general idea that America is the great country for millionaires and that, though Englishmen talk loosely about millionaires, there are actually very few in England. This is hardly borne out by the remarkable income tax figures just published. England has 134 people paying income tax on more than £IOO,OOO a year which, at 5 per cent, represents a capital of over two millions. If we take an income tax of £50.000 as representing a millionaire, then there are at least 529 millionaires in the country. Even this is by no means tlu* whole story, for there are 284 people paying on amounts between £40,000 and £50,000, and 563 between £30,000 and £40,000, and it is probably safe to say that a good many of these are really on the million mark. Altogether England has probably a thousand millionaires.

“They are proud of their trains in America, hut for attention and comfort they cannot come up to the English trains,” said Miss Henderson, addressing a meeting of members of the W.C.T.U. in Christchurch. One fault that she found with the American trains wan that they seldom arrived on time. When she asked the conduct or of a train when they would arrive at their destination, she received the reply : "The Lord knows.” Anollter matter that she objected to was the fact that, except at ;he principal centres, there were no station platforms.

The members of the Presbyterian Ladies' Guild have arranged to hold their annual sale of work on October 7th and Bth next.

Alfred Gould announces the following auction sales:—To-morrow, 16th insl., at 1.30 p.m. at the Abattoir, Atmesbiook, household furniture on account Air Frank Jones. Friday next, 17th, at 1.30 p.m., at 69 Tasman Street, surplus furniture on account ..Miss .Miller, who has sold her property.

5 Brush Wool Knuittel Costumes at 19/6. McKay’s Sale, Thursday.* Ladies’ Check Tweed Winter Coats, at less than llaif Price, 19/6 each.— McKay's Sale.*

A lady doctor in England has just declared that smoking is a wonderful preservative of the teeth, anil that although the teeth of some smokers may be discoloured they are generaly sounder than those of the non-smokers. So many hard things have been said about tobacco that it is refrshing to find a lady- —and a laity medico at that —putting in a good word for the weed. Of course every smoker knows that smoking prvents or arrests dental decay. What every smoker does not know, or at all events ignores,, is that an exces of nicotine in tobacco is highly injurious. And that’s where our New Zealnd tobaccos come in. Being comparatively free from nicotine they may be smoked almost ineesa.ntly without affecting the nerves or heart. -Moreover they are all toasted- —hence their fine flavour and delightful aroma. Made in several strengths they appeal to all tastes. Rivorhead Gold, mild and aromatic; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) is a fragrant medium; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull's Head) a fine full flavoured tobacco. They are on sale everywhere.*