OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2308, 26 May 1898, Page 30

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

No f&werthan 886 visitors nave passed through the- Falls Mouutain House, Mount Sgcaonfc, during this season.

Four vessels are loading timber for Melbourne at Gcceymouuh. The exporb last week wa&-2424-ft. Several Hastings (Hawke's Bay) farmer* have been offered and have refused £5 per ton for their potatoss.

Tb.e arrivals in the colony in April numbered 1176, against 1236 lasb year ; and the departures 1593. against 2032.

Mr- J. N. Williams, . owner of the Frimley estate, near Hastings, has definitely offered 1900 acres of his property to the Government.

The Wellington Council have decided to ask co-oporation of other local bodies in their efforts to secure the Mount Cook site for Victoria College.

From Westport lasb week the West-port Coal Company shipped 7276- tona and the Cardiff Company 2122 tons, making a total' of 9398

Eleven cases of typhoid fever were'admibted to the Auckland Hospital for t-eatment during tho fortnight ending May 7. Tbis makes the toial number under treatment 45.

The Presbyterian General Assembly of New South Wales has declared in favour of full local optiou on the liquor question, with money or time compensation of pubiicans.

The rainfall at tha chief centres for April was : — Auckland, eight days' fall, '97 inches ; Wellington, 12 days, 562 inches ; Christehurcb, two days, *29 inches ; Dunedin, TBS.

The hospital returns for the past week are :— Hemaining from previous week, 97 ; admitted during the week, 23 ; discharged, 23 ; deaths (Hwan Cameron and William M'Arthur), 2; total remaining in the institution, 95. John Craig, late manager of Te Aro House, ; Wellington, appeared on remand on Monday. ! There are two counts— stealing £810, originally stated to be maney belonging to the Bank of New I Zealand, but now altered to the money of his employers. • Bvidenca was taken tending to show that cheques, for wages were habitually | overdrawn. After taking part cf the evidence I fchatjaae was adjourned till, Wednesday. | The Bruce Herald ' reports ' that white % special goods train was climbing the hill to \ Manuka station the engine, suddenly leh the : mefcals oa account, .iii is said, 4>i a broken- wili I On assistance arriving -*nexs -morning ib wa» I soon replaced on the raits; and the train then pro* ceeded to Lawrence, arriving, about noon. The j mails and passenger*' that -would t ordinarily "have gone by the Jmornings train- were conveyed to Milton.per one of Cr»ig and Co.'s coaches, which, arrived, at 2.4-5. p.mJ The 2.50 pun. I tr*in from Lawrence ran as usual on Thursday.

A new school in Woodlktd* hnt been named " Tarara. 1 " • The facetious suggestion v»aargiv<m ;thafc ifc should be" called '• -Ta-rfc-ra-booEBL" de-aye," so good » beginning having been made to that! end"; but the name has been fixed as •'desired 1 by the* settlers. It w&b represented that the word w*g appropriate ss describing the site, which is on- & . saddle, and, thas " tarara " was the Maori term £or saddle;. The *atne, ib was -also urged, would- be ewily rC« membered, as of course ifcwiir be if only from iU »imU*rity to tho opening of the nbniens*