Local and General

Dunstan Times, Issue 2337, 25 June 1906, Page 4

Local and General

Court day at Ophir on Thursday. Mr W. Laidlaw, Matakarmi, has a good whitechapel dog-cart for sale. The annual general meeting of the Central Otago A. and P. Association will be held in the library, Ophir, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Messrs W. and 11. Hewitt, ihe wellknown tailors of Alexandra, announce that they have added a mercery business to their establishment. At last week’s meeting ot the Otago Education Board an application by the Alexandra school committee to have individual desks lilted in the new classroom was declined. The Cromwell committee was gran tedi‘4—half cost of repairs to buildings. The resignation of George Menzics, head teacher Blacks, was accepted, and Helen B. Swan was appointed at Lauder, vice }L Byers, resigned.

The Court sits at Blacks on Thursday. The list of business in the Warden’s Court appears in another column. The contractor (Mr Wilkinson) commenced the erection of the'Fraser bridge last week. The county engineer notifies that the bridge will be closed for about a month.

Poisoned grain, for the destruction of small birds, may be obtained gratis from the County Clerk, Mr J. S. Dickie, or any member of the Vincent County Council. A copy of the latest issue of “Progress”, a journal devoted to science, engineering, patents, etc., is to hand from the proprietors, Messrs Baldwin and Kayward, Patent Agents, Wellington. The periodical is well got up and illustrated and contains a fund of information which must prove invaluable reading to professional men as well as to all who are interested in the inventions of the day. A gruesome discovery has been made in the bed of the Opild river, near Team a, | where a human hand, thought to belong to a middle-aged female, has just been ' found There is not the slightest cine as to whom it belonged, but the police are making enquiries.

The new valuations for the Invercargill Borough show the capital value is £1,532,479, an increase of 17 per cent, on the previous valuation, and the unimproved value £689,779, an increase of 32 per cent. For the Borough of Gore the capital value is £417,132, an increase of 31 per cent., and the unimproved value £183,900, an increase of 73 per cent. At Gisborne a youth of thirteen years was last week convicted of cigarette smoking. The Bench, in discharging accused with a caution, commended the action of the police in attempting to put down juvenile smoking. The police intimated their intention of proceeding against shopkeepers selling tobacco to hoys.

One of the earliest settlers in the Ophir district, in the person of Mr John White, passed away on Monday last at his residence on the Ophir Flat, where he had been engaged in farming pursuits for a great number of years. How many persons (asks a London paper) would not hail with delight the discovery of a safe, pleasant, and easily procurable remedy for indigestion ? Such a remedy is reeommandecl in the correspondence columns of The Lancet by no less an authority Dr Francis T. Bond. “ The indigestion must he a very hopeless one,” says Dr Bond, “ which will not yield to a diet of a small cup of warm milk to which a teaspoonful of rum has has been added, followed by a plain biscuit or two and some very mild cheese, paradoxical as this combination may seem.” The marriage of rum and milk, according t.o the doctor, * like all well-assorted unions, brings out,"the good qualities of both parties to the alliance, and, taken wisely and not too well, he is of opinion that they form a happy combination of stimulant and nutriment much superior to many widely-advertised pick-me-ups. The Clyde Golf Club’s handicap match,

for a trophy presented by the Rev. W. A. K. Fitchett, was finished last week the winner being Mr J. McGinnis, handicap 36, net 95. The next best cards handed in were Dr Hyde, scratch, 97, and Mr R. Stevens, handicap 36, net 97. A Yankee i Tournament for a trophy presented by Mr Cuthhertson, also a driver given by the Golf Club, is now being played. The Hon. W. C. F. Cameras*, M.L.C., 1 who for several years represented the Taieri, writes in the Eltliam paper of the late Premier as follows; “It is first as a Parliamentarian that many of Ids friends will think of him. And in this position where is his equal? Ho could thread his way deftly through all the mazes of Standing Orders, and parliamentary precedents were as familiar to him as household words. On many occasions in the House he lias been in technical diiiiculties. his opponents chuckling at him in his dilemma, when, by a quick intellectual effort, a sudden aspiration of genius, lie lias by a clever application of some half-forgotten phase of parliamentary procedure extricated himself and his party from a most intricate position and left his opponents fairly dazed with astonishment. And afterwards lie would walk into the lobbies, Ids big sides shaking with laughter, and lie would say to his friends : ‘ Its’ all right boys ; always trust to (he Old Man to get you out of a hole.’ There was only one man in Hie House could compare with him in the matter if complete knowledge of parliamentary procedure, that one being Sir Maurice O’Rorke.” The Maniototo County Council evidently believes in paying nothing more Ilian a living wage to its officials. We notice, by a contemporary, that it is inviting applications for the position of Inspector of Roads and Works at the munificent salary of £2 10 0 per week, one of the conditions of the billot being that the successful applicant must provide a horse. The council evidently does not intend that either man or horse shall wax fat at their expense. Kean, a former Stockbroker, was sentenced at Philadelphia to 20 years’ imprisonment for kidnapping wealthy residents’ children and demanding a heavy ransom for them under threats of deatli. * Sir W. C. Macdonald, the governor of M’Giil University, Montreal, has presented the M'Giil University with an agricultural College, and endowed it with a sum of £-100,000. The gale which arose early on Sunday morning was responsible for a considerable amount of damage to dwellings about Clyde. One house occupied by Mr McLean, a workman in the Clyde coalpit, was practically demolished, and anot her dwelling, belonging to Mr R. Mitclielie, was unroofed and one wall blown down. An outhouse attached to Mr R. Taggart's dwelling was also turned upside down, while several minor losses, such as windows blown in and chimney tops snapped off are reported. A couple of waggoners camped in a lint at the top of the town, thinking that their little dwel- , ling would he blown into the river, ' crawled on their hands and knees to the shelter of the racks on (ho adjoining 1 hillside, and camped there till daylight * when the force of the gale had abated. j The wintry winds arc blowing, Think of the ills they bring, And guard with care your household Until tTie welcome spring. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure ' Will aid you to this end, 1 And, as a sentry, safe and sure, * Your dear ones will defend. :

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., imported by the Wimmera from Denmark two Danish red bulls on account of a breeder at Fealhcrston. These are said to lie the first bulls of Danish strain to be imported into tbe colony.

What is that great medicine that every, body is talking about ? Why, Noxol, of course. Dr Crossland’s celebrated prescription 89878, one of tbe best known cures for constipation, indigestion and liver disorders. Sold by chemists and store* at 2* per bottle.

Our contemporary, the ‘ Alexandra Herald,’ is evidently a trifle sore over the criticism, by the collector of the Dunstan Hospital, Mr H. G. Wright, (which ap?y eared in our columns last week) of its eading article on Hospital management. Our contemporary surely cannot expect to place itself on so high a pedestal as will allow it to discuss all and sundry in whatever manner it may deem fit, without getting any hard knocks in return. In the instance in point it contended that the collector’s commission was excessive, and, presumably therefore should be reduced. ft should not then be unreasonably surprised that the collector should seek the earliest opportunity of proving to the public that be does not get more than Ids services are woith. Under similar circumstances we should be quite prepared to put up with such adverse comment as might be hurled at us in any of the public columns of the press. At a meeting of the Central Otago Poultry Club, on Tuesday evening last, the following class stewards were appointed : —Class I to 90, Messrs Ross, Allan and Pocock ; class 91 to 143 and section 2, Messrs Lewis, O’Kane and Thomson ; section 3, with ladies committee, Dr Gregg. Mr Webster was appointed to fill the vacancy on the committee caused by the retirement of Mr Grimstone. It was resolved to order three dozen drinking cups to complete the quantity required for coops. The Club’s annual show, which takes place next month, promises to be a successful one. The entries from outside the district will be fairly numerous, while our own district will make a big exhibit. Fanciers are keener than ever, and judging by the quality of some of the birds we have seen, there should be some keen competition.

There is many a ricli man that would give with pleasure a thousand sovereigns for a new stomach. Indigestion attacks rich and poor alike. If such sufferers only knew the value of Dr Grassland's Noxol, they would not hesitate to give it a trial. 2s bottles, at chemists and stores. So successful have Chinese laundries proved in Liverpeol that some have recently been established inland. About one hundred yellow men are now washing clothes in Manchester, while smaller batches of the pigtails have descended on the neighboring towns, already to the injury of English laundresses, a number of whom have been thrown out of work. Investigations made by a ‘Lyttelton Times ’ reporter show that in Christchurch the cost of living has risen 25 per cent in ten years. Rent has increased from 10 to 20 per cent, in spite of active nuilding operations, on which it is estimated £500,000 was expended last year, and this year the total is likely to be largely exceeded. In comparison with the increased rate of living, the increase in earnings is small. Wages have risen, but not to the same extent as living expenses, and salaries are practically unchanged. One of the largest business firms in Christchurch has issued instructions that no picture postcards addressed to employees shall Jbe received on their premises—the result of the circulation of indecent and suggestive postcards. The ‘ Melbourne Argus 5 reports that a sample of wool was recently brought from an up-country district with grass growing practically all over it. It is stated that there were at least three or four of a flock which had been grazing on the mountains which were as green as the fields, owing to the grass growing from their fleeces. They had not been shorn for some few

years, and, having got amongst the debris and charcoal from the bush lire«, had possibly lain down amongst it, and picked up the grass seed, which had germinated so luxuriously in consequence of the previous rains.

A piece of wedding cake, sent to a Christchurch medical man for the purpose of ascertaining whether it contained ptomaine germs (says ‘ Truth ’), was subjected to a form of analysis certainly not contemplated when the specimen was handed over. The cake was discovered by two of the doctor’s youngsters, who, in blissful ignorance of the suspicions surrounding it,promptly ate it up between them. No ill effects resulted, however, and the doctor, who was called as a wit-

ness in which the wedding cake and other delicacies figured, said he concluded from that that the cake was harmless and free from offending microbes. The Christchurch Licensing Committee refused all applications for 11 o’clock closing. Counsel for the Victuallers’ Association made a strong appeal, pointing out that during the currency of the Exhibition the town would be full of visitors from a distance spending all the evening at the Exhibition, and they would want a stimulant before going home. Tire committee were inexorable

The trial, arranged to try the usefulness of the newly formed Clyde Fire Brigade in case of a night alarm of fire, came off on Wednesday evening. A goodly sized heap of old tar barrels, straw, kerosene, other inflammable material was arranged on the railway reserve under cover of the darkness and fired shortly after 11.30p.ni. Inside of five minutes from the first tolling of the bell the brigade had a stream of water plying on the fire and succeeded in getting it under in a very short space of time. Only one member of the brigade failed to put in air appearance, nearly all the rest turning out with commendable promptness, a number evidently being more concerned over getting quickly to the fire than about dressing, an energetic hydrant man, one of the first to arrive at the scene of operations, being specially noticeable by the scantiness of his garments.

I hereby certify that if sufferers from constipation, indigestion, liver arid stomach complaints will take my prescription 89878, known as Noxol, according to the directions on the bottle, it will cure them. —(Signed) J. Grassland, M. D. Sold everywhere by all patent medicine vendors at 2s per bottle. Two hundred unemployed attended Scot’s Church, Melbourne, on Sunday, but o wing to their continued interruptions d u ring the sermon, Dr Marshall abruptly cl osed the service, and declared that he would not allow the House of God to be transformed into a debating club.

Are You a Nuisance ? You disturb everybody in the house. Why not stop coughing ? You make a terrible noise. As for sleeping, no one can-get a bit -of rest. If you do not care for youiself, then for the sake of the others take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. You will make everybody happy, and that includes yourself, for the first thing you know you will not have any cough. For sale by B. Naylor Ltd,, Clyde. For bronchial coughs and colds, Woods Great reppormipt (Juie els 6d and 2s Qd per bottle NOTICE.—“Hoko” the Great Cough Cure, Albany Neuralgia Cure. Quinine and Iron Tonic. Agent, Simmonds, storekeeper, Clyde.