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North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13667, 8 September 1916, Page 2

The Dominion products entered for export last week were -valued jit £417,720, including dairy produce" £34.587, frozen me'at 1161,503, gold £25,000 Jfm ,G6s ' iiemp £17,871 > ta]low t00,'172, aud wool £103,873. A London cable message states that the creditors of Mr Ashmead Bartlett the well-known' war correspondent, accepted a proposal for the payments by instalments of five shillings in the e??™' ' rlle total ]ia6ilities amouilt to M-l/G. A Wellington Press. Association- niesj states that the Golden Bay Cement » orks, Ltd., shows, a profit of £9,344 S'j !°. yCar Clule(1 Juuc 30th > in^'ding -3,334 brought forward, A dividend of six per cent, is recommended, absorbing £3,G00. The balance will be carried forward,

A Wellington Press Association messtates that it is officially announced that -Private Thomas Nugent, a member of A Company of the Seventeenth Reinforcements, died at Auckland on the afternoon of the 3th inst. ti'Om cerebrospinal meningitis; His next-of-kin is Edward Nugent (father), or Melrose Avenue, Newmarket. In response to a largely-sigilcd requisition representative of all sections oi' the community, Mr James Mitchell has consented to nomination fqr the vacancy on the Borbugh Council, stating "at he does so the more readily because {e i was in no small degree responsible 1 lor the submission of the electricity scheme | 0 (lie ratepayers/and is„conscquCiitlv anxious to see that project earned, to a. successful issue.

Appomled to the list of patriotic societies controlling funds approved under scct.on JO of the War Legislation Amendment Act, ]|)l(j, by the Minister ot Internal Affairs, is the-following memorandum: "1 have also approved for the purposes of the said section all committees, branches, and sub-centres of or affiliated to the New Zealand branch ot the British lied Cross Society, Victoria League, or Lady Liverpool Funds throughout/the Dominion."

During the course of the meeting of the Oamaru Presbvtery'.y cster.<lay morning, several speakers, inreferring to the work of the {Roy. ■Thos. Neavi in i.ie Jmu'ow parish' and his approaching retirement from active service, expressed strong disappointment at the meagre provision"made by the church's beiiefic!"p' illlul fol ' its aged and retired ministers, and several urged that the cinestion should be opened up with a view to ii more liberal treatment of ministers, wlio retired irom the active work of the chinch after long years of service. ' Mr George Gould recently cabled to a well-known Canterbury resident in Lonilon (says the Evening News) askit l\c could ascertain the relative retail counter prices of Argentine and Mv Zealand meats, and has received a reply to the effect that "the retail price of lamb in June and July was: Argentine 13d, New Zealand lls,d, To' day the prices arc 12d and 114 the 'Mffirouce being- accounted ror ify ; thc fact that the British' Government ixed the jScw Zealand price of lamb in June and a great scarcity of New Zealand lamft-allowed Argentine, •which fs uncontrolled, to her price, fwiien our large shipments arrive in london the Argentine sellers will probally cut prices,." . • T

Henry Robert Ashley,'' alias' Anderson, abas Walter, was arrested by elective Ward iu )Cliristchurch, on the pt'li- instant, on a ./warrant .issued at iuirow, lie was brought before Mr J B. Bartholomew, S.M., in the Magistrate s Court yesterday morning, on a c large of attempting to fraud, by obtaining■ L 10/- by 'false pretenees'from J. A, Greer, of Kurow, on May llth.' . ' Accused pleaded for leniency on account 0 f his having enlisted, The Magistrate remarked that he had had Euilicient opportunity, during the past two years to render service to his country if lie so desired. Accused, who had tnree previous convictions against him ">r- like offences,. was sentenced to uree months' imprisonment iu Duuedin gaol. The prisoner went south by the Urs express in charge of Constable Lee yesterday afternoon.

I he many people who have read "The sentimental Bloke," by C. J, Dennis, \'!ll Jjg interested to learn that Lawitfi.'C Campbell, the brilliant Australian elocutionist, has arranged to give recitals of selections from that famous hook, commencing in Sydney on September 9. At the conclusion of his Sydney season,. Mr Campbell goes to ilelbouriic, opening 'there on Septemberjo, and Gubsequcntly 'he will make a tour of New Zealand, Good judges regard him as being particularly fitted to reveal the humour and quaint underlying nobility of Dennis's hero. In addition to his elocutionary gifts, Mr Campbell is said to have marked ability as an actor, also a magnetism and charm. that make his entertainments popular,

T 'l' ie r . power of observation (says the New Zealand Herald) was shown to be developed' to an extraordinary degree in !i girl ot twelve, who. in flic Auckland Supreme Court on Friday last,- described a youth who appeared in the dock on a certain charge. She said the accused was wearing a. slate-grey hut, a grey sliirt, a grey coat, grey waistcoat, and brownish grey trousers. The grey of the waistcoat,' she said, was lighter than that of the jacket, and the grey of the shirt was different from either. Accused,, she said, wore black stortings;; with . red stripes below the luiee, his;.boots)'pre black, and had. a little nuirl on them, ]le wore two badges .on his coat, and a tooth in the uphpr 'jaw was slightly decayed' and showed when lie spoke.