OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9389, 31 March 1892, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

- ♦ ■ NEWS, GOSSIP, Aitt> ADS. Sixty cases of typhoid wsrn being treated in Wellington Hospital on Monday. The Wellington Hospital is so crowded that a recent inquest had to be held in the doctor's private room. A gentleman named Purchas. while driving with his wife at Echuca, broke a blood vessel in a fit of coughing, and died before he could be lifted out of the buggy. Baron Mueller, the Victorian Government botanist, is not to be retrenched, but the publication of his scientific treatises on Victorian vegetation, which cost LI6OO a year, is to be stopped. A small comet may be now seen (says the Post) in the early morning hours in the constellation of Capricornus, forming a triangle with the stars Alpha and Beta Capricorni. This comet is about equal to a star of the fourth magnitude in brilliancy, and may be well observed with a telescope of moderate power. Bernstone, the Paris tailor, has the grandest . show of stock in Dunedin at 45 George street, and also in Chriscchurch (High street). He charges very moderate. Suits at L 3 3s, trousers 16s 6d: Fit guaranteed or money returned. • The following missing friends are inquired for in Lloyd's Weekly of February 21:—Alfred Logan sailed for New Zealand in s.s. Allahabad 1873. Last wrote from. Dunedin, June 1877. —Emma Arnal, of Swancombe, Greenhithe, sailed for New Zealand about 18 years ago. Her husband was a platelayer on the railway. Last address, AVairarapa.—John Wyneward Carpenter went to New Zealaud in 1851. In 1554-5 was shepherd at Stouehurst station, and in June 1858, when ho last wrote Home, was working at Ham farm, near Racecourse Hill station, for Messrs Russell and Creke.--Joseph Hurley, of Kingsrow, Horsleydown; last letter dated May 6, 1866, from Toohumbi (?), New Zealand.—Nathan Perrott last wrote from Auckland, December 11,1880.— Thomas Birch Price was last heard of at Waitara,—Thomas Samuel and Charles Roff, with their mother and sister, sailed for New Zealand in 1880.

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