OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9355, 20 February 1892, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS, GOSSIP, AND ADS. The visit of the Montagu-Turner Company to this colony has beep abandoned. - In a horse-taming competition at Christchurch yesterday between Lichtwark and Jabez ■ — Lukey the judges unanimously decided in J favour of Lichtwark. Ninety-seven factories in Wellington are returned as employers of labour, the number of hands ranging from three to 116. The Wellington City Council have L 2700 in hand towards the purchase of books for the free library. A first instalment of L 1750 is to be _. spent at once. - . ,3 The Government intend to introduce a bill ?■ giving power to old soldiers to transfer their a. scrip. A number of claims proved before the 0 magistrates have been paid in cash. G A Guarantee of Pueity.—"The name of 9 Cadbury on any packet of Cocoa is a guarantee 6 of purity."—Medical Annual. 0 Mr John Grindley, of e the Farmers' Agency jj Company, broke three of bis ribs at Gore on x Tuesday by slipping from a rail where he was 6 selling stock and falling heavily to the ground. 0 At the Police Court yesterday Mr Robin, one 0 of the presiding justices, remarked that it was 0 a pity there was no inebriate asylum for old 6 offenders. ". It is reported that a couple of tea salesmen 0 had a dispute on Thursday morning, and that blows were finally ..exchanged, which will „ probably lead to proceedings being instituted g in the Police Court for the settlement of the g rights and the wrongs of the case. 6 The thoroughbred entire Volunteer -was 6 seriously injured at Manaia in a fight with the 6 Clydesdale entire Prince Victor. Volunteer jj broke into the paddock adjoining Prince Victor, p when the latter seized Volunteer by the lower q jaw and hauled him over the gate, breaking the upper bar in doing so. Prince Victor then tore Volunteer's side open, exposing his entrails, 1- besides otherwise knocking him about. Volunteer's jaw was completely smashed, the bones rattling when the head was lifted. PEARS' SOAP. 5 Fair White Hands, Bright Clear Complexion, » Soft Healthful Skin.—Pears' Soap for toilet and nursery. Speciallyprepared for the delicate 1 skin of ladies and children and others sensitive 1 to tte weather, winter or summer. Prevents redneas, roughness, and chapping.