OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9563, 20 October 1892, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS, GOSSIP, AND ADS.

The West Coast Times devotes a leading article to a discussion of the question, Why should Duuedin be the chief if not the only place where the labour market is so greatly congested just now ? Has it any connection, it asks, with the Otago Central railway ? The Times says there seems to be some sort of a mysterious connection between a greatly desired public work and the existence of a large body of unemployed, and asserts that when sufficient provision is not made for the work in any other way great distress amongst a large body of unemployed is presented to view, and strong efforts are made to relieve the one by performing the other. The recent heavy rains have caused a slip in the Mosgiel Colliery, and on Tuesday (says the Advocate) the men at the mine were engaged clearing away the stuff, from the mouth of the mine. It will bo impossible to obtain coal from the mine until the whole of the fallen stuff has been cleared. The land in the vicinity of the Mosgicl Colliery has sunk considerably of late. In the National Library of Japan there are no fewer than 127,000 volumes. The classes of books favoured by its readers have been tabulated, and the contents are such as to gratify the admirers of the best hundred books. Fiction is nowhere, but the following explanation of its absence is significant:—"Of late years novels have been withdrawn, since there was such a rush upon light literature that it was found the more serious students were hopelessly driven away."

Mr Purvis, the chief engineer of the lonic, besides bringing safely to the colony the lobsters for the Otago Acclimatisation Society, also brought 22 Teneriffe partridges and a pair of Teneriffe grouse for the Wellington society.