BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 164, 18 July 1896, Page 3

BY THE WAY.

3 Blocked. j Banking business bunkered for the present. ( President Watson declines to bo pumped. The Premier, at the handle, thinks o fino of £500 might make the figuro move. ' Tbe longest service statinomaster on the : New Zealand linos is Mr B. Sword, with a record of twenty-nine years and a-half. j There are 660 women journalists, editors, 1 aud authors iv England and Wales according • to tho last conBU3 returns. , A sixth standard scholar of tho Masterton r school described a wether as " a female sheep . without wool." j Tho ' Inangahua Herald ' records the fact , that a recent hospital ball, given in its dis- , trict, realised over £83, the net Co3t being . only £2 10s. 'I James Churches was charged lately in Victoria with being a vagrant. He was i sentenced to three months, and gratefully i thanked God and tho Magistrate for the I term, asking wistfully if it could not be made . three years. * I [ Proceedings are being taken against Auek- I j land tradesmen for allixing calico signboards ' to their properties, which is contrary to the city by-laws. I At tho Benevolent Asylum at Sydney, ' relief was extended on Wednesday week to 1 | 1000 persons, representing 3500 widows, orphans, and individuals in indigent circum- . stances. I It is a curious and littlo known faot that the Queen incurred a fino of 7s 6d for having i allowed six weeks to elapse bofore registering | tho birth 'of the present Duke of Edinburgh. A mino manager at Kalgoorlie wns recently robbed of L 35, having beon first knocked insensible. The robbers mistook him for another mine manager, who passod along the road a fow minutes later with L 360. I Tho Inveroargill Town Council proposes to borrow £-5000 for tho erection of public abattoirs. The Wellington Meat Export Company's annual report recommends the declaration ot a dividend of 8 per cent., and that £400 be carried forward. Mr W. Wood, of Canterbury, who came from Australia by the Mararoa, says that he saw live ticks ou hides on that boat. Major C. T. Picton is manager of the State Hotol, at Denisou, Texas, which the travelling men say is one of tho best hotels in that Cholera and Diarrhcea Remedy, Major Picton section. In speaking of Chamberlain's Colic, says: "I have used it myself and in my family for several years, and take plcasuro in saying that I consider it an infalllblo cnre for diarrhoea and dysentery. I always 10---commend it, and have'frequently administered it to my guests in the hotel, and in every case it has proven itself worthy of unqualified endorsement." For sale by D. B. EsTmsn, Druggist, Gore.