OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10193, 30 October 1894, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS, GOSSIP, AND ADS,

The first of the season wool reached Pott Chalmers yesterday.

Tho Sydney Sunday Times asserts that there are known lepers walking about New South Wales, and moving in good society. Under the will of the late Mr Henry Willcox (of Wellington) £100 is bequeathed to the Home for the Aged Needy, £100 to the con* valesceat fund of the hospital, and £50 to tha reoreation fund of the Lunatic Asylum. THREE GOLDEN RULES. " Never put off till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day," " a stitch in time saves nine," and a bottle of "Sequah's Cure" will often save a doctor's bill. Sequah's celebrated medicines are the best of aU household remedies and never fail to give satisfaction.—[Advt.] According to the Westport Time 3 the 8.5. Kawatiri, on her last trip north, had a narrow escapa of colliding with a whale when oil Eeck'a Point. The leviathan rose at the bow of tha steamer. Accordiag to the Wanganui Herald, a prosecution for a bruach of the licensing law cost tha country about ££00 for witnesses' expensee and so forth. It was elicited in evidence that the "whisky" in evidence was retailed to Eusfii peans at Us per bottle and to the Maoris at ti much as £1 «er bottle ! INTERESTING DISCOVER*. The American Government has instructed a noted analyst to examine and report upon cer« tain mineral springs, which have been recently discovered to have an extraordinary curative effect in cases of rheumatism and other complaints. A voluminous report has been already laid before the recent Medical Congress, from which it would appear that most marvellous cures have boeu undoubtedly effected, and the investigation of the Government analyst is, therefore, looked forward to with grest interest. Sequafc's Cure is composed of the carefully concentrated water of one of these spring?," combined with certain botanic extracts, and is therefore a natural, safe, aud effectual remedy for all hinds of rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, kidney disease, pains in tho back, aud dropsy. It also cures indigestion, biliousness, aud constipation. The result of this remedy, when used in conjunction with Seqnah's Oil, haa been so remarkable as to hove occasioned coasider&bie public interest.—[Advt.]

— The carpenters of the Middle Ages must have been very expert, for not oth^rwis^ c'uld they have ertcted the enormous timber works necessary in the building of the great cathedrals of "that day, but they have left no records of th*! manner in which the task was pcx« formed. A BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION. Apply Snlpholine Lotion. It drives awa9 pimples, blotches, roughness, redness, and all disfigurements. Sulpholine developes a lovels skin. Is bottles. Made in London.—[Advt.] —It is seriously proposed to purify the; Thames by importing a echool of crocodiles to act as river scavengers. BOORD'S OLD TOM.