NEWS IN BRIEF

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXIX, Issue 8301, 23 April 1932, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

To-day's anniversaries— William Shakespeare died, 161(5. Naval raid on Ostend and Zeebrngge, 1918. Anniversaries to morrow— Daniel Defoe (“ Robinson Crusoe •died, 1731. Pacific cable landed at Doubtless - B.y, 1902. • Prince of Wales arrived at Auckland, 1920. St. George’s Day to day. London’s famous fish market, Billingsgate, has a history going back over 1000 years. ■ , There was a great rush 1 y the public in London recently to take advantage of the premium on g< Id to sell soverigus at 27/6. recent census shews that the population of many towns in Palestine has grown considerably in the past ten ycais, Jerusalem, with 90,500, has increased by half, with 50,600, has more than doubled. Church bells are a relic of a time when clocks and watches were unknown, and they served a verv real purpose in reminding people of t lie hour of prayer. In niedi- val times the saying of prayeis at appointed hours was a duty s:rictly enforced by the church. Married ladies who never smoked themselves—there are still some of them about you know—often object strongly to .“Father” smoking, especially in the house, so that the poor fellow, if he wants to “blow a cloud” when at home is compelled to go to the garden if it’s fine and the coal-hole if it isn’t! But the wise wife knows full well that smoking makes for harmony in the home, and that irritability and “snappishness” quickly yield to the beneficient effect of the weed. So she offers no objection when father gets out his pipe and fills up. Of course, the 1 tobacco should be the best, not the foreign stuff generally loaded with nicotine, and more likely to increase irritability than to allay it. Toasted tobacco is the purest, most wholesome, sweetest and most fragrant, because there is practically no nicotine -in it —It’s toasted! There are only four brands: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3. Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10. But take care what you buy—there are imitations about!

Seddon St.