OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9041, 17 February 1891, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS, GOBBIP, AND ADB.

Quite a tropical shower fell yesterday afternoon.

Tho tramcars did good business, and would-bo passengers growled at the bye-law against overcrowding.

The Maori census shows the Native popnlation in and about Rotorna to be 883.

As evidence of the intense heat on the summit of Tarawern mountain, Mr Malfroy recently took a green sapling with him from Wairoa, which he pushed into the ground a few inches, and in about a minute's time pulled it out perfectly obarred, as if from a furnace.

The historic old cotton mill at Cromford, where Arkwright first set up his cotton-spinning machinery, has been destroyed by fire. A young man was charged at Tipton with attempting to commit suicide. His father said the accused was one of a family of S3 children. Bale of Morphine.—Owing to tiie alarming increase in the sale of Morphine the members of the Brant (Ontario) Association have mutually agreed not to sell the drug unless under the doctors' orders. The sale of BontelIcau'a Brandy, however, is steadily increasing. Such is the reward of merit. ■

It is proposed to ereot a statue in Troy, New York, to Mies Emma Willard, who was the pioneer in the cause of higher education for women in America.

T,he Pacifio Ocean ig not only the largest of the great bodies of water on the globe, but is the deepest. Its average depth is about three miles. The average depth of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean is about two miles asd a-quarters At Blenheim yesterday Mr Allan, resident magistrato, sitting as a commissioner, gave his decision upsotting the election oE the Wairau River Board on the ground that two voters who claim to vote but were refused because they were not on the roll should have been there.