OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10034, 27 April 1894, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NHWS, GOSSIP, AND ADB.

Miss Keating, who lost her sight through a gun accident at South Dunedin, is in the Auckland School for the Blind.

The Oamaru Mail waxes indignant over the tone adopted by some of the speakers at the prohibition social towards the Premier, and describes the third resolution as V a fitting climax to fanatical unreason."

' The Waimate ghost (says the North Otago Times) was a wallaby which got loose, and which scampered about at night frightening the people into the belief that "Old Scratch" was on a special visit to the place, x Lovers of flowers should visit the nurseriesat Botanic Gardens, trsm terminus; Howden and Moncrieff have a splendid show of chrysanthe^ mams in bloom. • ' A horse belonging to Mr Cowan, of Limehills, Southland, which died on Sunday, was examined, when the inside of the stomach was found clustered with grubs, the larva of the bot fly. The creatures were clinging to the flesh like leeches, refusing even in death to release their hold. Boom of English cycles. New Howe, weight 321b, £23 103. Humber's genuine Beesteu make, weight 321b stripped, price £26 10s. Raleioh's G pattern, two gears, weight 321b, £25. Each fitted with Dunlop tyres and Hall's patent rubber brakes. Adams, Curties, and Co., 70 Manchester street. Christchurch. • Red tape is still to be met with. A number of constables in plain clothes in Christchurch happened to be almost on the spot when a fire broke out, and, as a fierce wind was blowing, rendered every assistance. But the regulations provide that a constable must put on his uniform before attending a fire, and the men were brought before the inspector "for being absent from the fire." They were let off with a caution.

— In Germany the denominational unit is tho mark,, nearly equal to Is of British money, and divided into 100 pfennige.

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