OMNIUM GATHEHUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10267, 26 January 1895, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHEHUM.

■ ■ » NEWS AND GOSSIP. It is the iitention of the Oamarn bowlers to held a tournament at Easter. The laaxigahua Herald characterises as " rare impudence" Mr Earnshaw's statement that the West Coast may be viewed as the sink hole for New Zealand's revenue. A member of the Waitaki County Council says that his experieiace of poisoned grain foi small birds is that when fowls get it to eat the hens immediately start to lay double-yolked eggs... A Presbyterian clergyman at Woodvillo hsa publicly expressed the opinion that the commercial depression over the world was owing to the forgetting of God and the neglect o£ Biblo teaching in the public schools. t . The potato crop throughout the Woodvilla district this season is badly damaged. Opinion varies as to the cause, which some attribute to the fungoid disease, and others to the grub destroying the vines. Miss A. S. de Longueville Graham has re* ccived the appointment of mistress to the school at Opfair (Blacks). Miss Graham is a pupil of tile Fort Chalmers District High School, and stndied under Dr Chilton. At the Port Chalmers Police Court yesterday forenoon, before Mr J. K. Monson, J.F., William Kent, for drunkenness, was lined S3, or in default 24- hoars' .imprisonment; and Alfred Ferry, for allowing four cows to wander, wx fitted +.", without costs. Messrs B. Hallensteiu and A. Solomon, J.P.s, presided at the Police Court yesterday. For drunkenness, Ellen M'Gee was fined ss, in default 24- hours' imprisonment; while a first offender was convicted and discharged. Eccles Crawford (for whom Mr Hanlon appeared) pleaded guilty to leaving his horse unattended in sne of the main thoroughfares, and was fined ss; while Thomas Thompson, for allowing a horse to wander in the North-Bast Valley, was similarly deals with. The purchase of small birds' eggs has cost the Waitaki County ? Council £137 this year, the number of eggs bought being 187,000. The council have decided to immediately discontinue the purchase of eggs. As the train from Outrara was coming into the Dunedin station at 9 o'clock yesterday morning the rear bogie wheels of two of the carriages left the rails at the Battray street crossing. The train had very little way on ab the time, and no damage resulted to either persons or property. The line was clear in about half an hour. The stipendiary magistrate at Wellington has given his judgment in a case which was the sequel to proceedings in the Supreme Court at the last criminal sessions in Dnnedin—a casein which the Railway Commissioners sued Andrew Suttie for £35 15s 9d, alleged to have been paid to the Union Company at the request of the defendant for the carriage of goods. His Worship gave judgment for plaintiffs for tha amount claimed, holding that the law under tha circumstances implied a request by the defend' ant to the plaintiffs to pay the amount to tha Union Steam Ship Company. The plaintiffs had paid the amount, and defendant mast now repay it. At the Magistrate's Court at Napier, on Saturday iaed, Mr Stanford, S.M., gave his decision in a case of Gordon v. Northe, in which the plaintiff, a constable, sued defendant, a settler, for £100 damages for injuries inflicted through a collision which occurred while a nervant of defendant's was driving without lights on the wrong side of a road. The defendant raised a plea that plaintiff was drunk at the time of the occurrence. Mr Stanford oaid he had seldom heard in any court such trumpery evidence adduced in defence of such a serious charge. The evidence had shown with the utmost clearness that at no time was Gordon anything else than sober, at the time of the accident or at any other time. He gave judgment tor the full amount ol damages claimed (£100), with costs (£ll 13s). INTERESTING DISCOVERY. The American Government has instructed a noted analyst to examine and report upon cer« tain mineral springß, 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 been undoubtedly effected, and the investigation of the Government analyst is, therefore, looked forward to with great interest. Sequah's Cure is composed of the carefully concentrated water of one of these springs, combined with certain botanic extracts, and is therefore a natural, safe, and effectual remedy for all kinds of rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, kidney disease, pains in the back, and dropsy. It also cures indigestion, bilioupness, and constipation. The result of this remedy, when used in conjnncticn with Sequah's Oil, bai been so remarkable as to have occasioned con siderable public interest.—[Advt.]