OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8863, 22 July 1890, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS, GOSSIP, AND ADS. He E. G. Kerr is definitely announced for the Tiraaru seat. The Mataura Dairy Factory Company havo had an offer from Melbourne of 4Jd per Ib for 60 cases o£ cheese. The committee of the Yonng Women's Christian Association beg to thank the many friends, of tho association who contributed useful and fancy articles to their sale of work. Mr Milne, one of the Presbyterian missionaries at the New Hebrides, isat present in.Duriedin translating part of the Bible for publication. . ; The young fish, supposed to be salmon, taken from the Waitaki to the Oamaru Acclimatisation Society's ponds have all died, A correspondent who lives in Cargill street writes to cay that if a stranger who called at his house in Cargill street and obtained access at 2 a.m. on Friday will call again he will receive a warm and pointed if not hospitable reception, The "ghost" scare has been revived in Invercargill, and it is reported that several women aud children have been seriously frightened by the so-called apparition. It appears that the " performer," whose body is enveloped in a white sheet, and whose features are disguised by a false face, emerges from dark corners in byestreets when he wants to have his fun. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday judgment was given for the plaintiffs, with costs, in the following undefended cases:— Patrick O'Brien v. Frederick Groves, claim £3 ss, for cash advanced and for board and lodgings ; Julia Eudow v. Alexander Reid, claim £1 Is, for rent due. Mr E. H. Carew occupied the bench. At yesterday's sitting of the Police Courb Messrs S. Elborn and W. Elder occupied the bench. Mary Baker, on a charge of drunkenness, was convicted and discharged conditionally upon leaving the town. Mary Ellen Mahoney was charged, on the information of Peter Beck, with using obscene language, and Peter Beck was charged, on the information of Mary Ellen Mahoney, with assaulting her. After some considerable display of volubility on both sides the bench appeared to be convinced that both charges arose out of neighbours' quarrels. They therefore dismissed the charge of assault, on Mr Hanlon, who appeared for Peter Beck, consenting to withdraw the information for obscene language. Poisonous Mustakd.—" Oh, mo, Jane ha 3 gone and ordered that horrid brand of mustard again, when Dr James said that if we valued oar health we ought to ueo only Keen's. He says it is the purest in the world, and you know yourself, ma, that it took first prize at New Zealand Exhibition." A hunchback whale, 56ft long, was stranded on the Tonga Beach, Nelson, last week. It has been towed over to the Boulder Bank, where it will be tried out. Its estimated value is £200. An old Invercargill resident, now in Victoria (according to the News), recently said—" Butter, cheese, bacon, eggs, and lots of other staple articles of food are frightfully dear here campared to what they can be got for in New Zealand. With butter at fiom 2s to 3s a pound, and eggs at 2s 6d a dozen, a working man has to regard them as luxuries to be used on rare occasions only instead of for daily diet as in the island colony. I was a Protectionist once, but I'm a Freetrader now."

More rain falls in a year over the Khasia mountain?, which lie north of Calcutta, in Assam, than in any other district in the world. At the meteorological station and observatory, situated at Cheera Poongee, in that region, as n-.uch as 610 in of rain—that is 50ft-have been collected in a single year; and of this enormous quantity nearly 550 in fell in the six rain or winter months beginning May. As much as 26in of rain have been observed to fall on the Khasia mountains in a single day.