OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10363, 18 May 1895, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS AND GOSSIP,

Regulations with reference to lifa-saving appliances, for ships are gazetted. ■■''."

.. Therewas a heavy coating of snow.yesterday morning on .Flagstaff, Pine Hill, and Mount Cargill.-':-•--■■■-•-■- :■;' :■■■ ■■'■■■y. '■■■'■ •■'■ -

'Since 1891 there has been an increase 0f:24 per cent, in the number of; dairy cowb in the colony, an increase of 22 per cent, in cattle, and of 18 per cent, in breeding cows.

The Post says:—"lt is rumoured that the management of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have been asked from London to name a price at which they will dispose /of their business in Southland."

Excitement bis bean caused at Dunolly, Victoria, by the unearthing by Mason and party of a SOoz nugget within five mile's of the town.

A 12-lurrow plough is pronounced to bs a success in Victoria." It is worked by eight horaes,-snd it is alleged that 17-i acres are being turned over in a day.

A look-out tower, which was' being built by prison labour in the Hobart Domain, has tumbled over. It had cost the colony close upon £500. .

The' body of Jane Ryan, aged 22, who for the past three years had been a probationer at St. Joseph's Convent, Goulburn, was found lying on the railway line near Meimgle. How she came by her death is a mystery. :

Twelve of the village settlers in the neighbourhood of Studhohne—" Strugglers' Fist"— have received notice to -qnife unless their arrears of rent are paid forthwith;

The Aucklaad Star; asserts thai the petition sent to the Premier signed by 104 unemployed single men was gob upby a yoursg man who arrived quite recently from Australia.

Te: Kooti to Eatu, the Maori Wesleyan missionary, who recently died; at Grey town, was not, ib appears, a native of- the South Island,,butiwaii born in the Wairarapa district, and. when .buta child was t?.kea captive by Ta Raupaiaha. He wasfor some years stationed as missionary at Rnapuke.; :

A paragraph was recently copied into this column from the Lyttelton. Times which stated that Daybreak, the women's paper in Wellington, was in financial difficulties and about to cease publication. Colour was given to the report by tbe usnal copy not coming to hand, bafc when a few days later the next issue arrived we at once announced that the paragraph which, we had copied was without foiiedation. Ifris to be hoped that Daybreak has a long and useful career before it, and that the erroneous statement made concerning it will have the effect of inducing women to more generally support the, paper which was started in their interests. ■ .■

The Timaru Herald learns that Mrs Dean obtained from Timaru in 1890 a child over one year old, and with it a premium of £50. The father is now out of the colony and the mother is in the North Island.

The man Anderson who was murdered at Coolgardie recently was known ss " New Zealand Jimmy." He had been living with a blackfellow's gin, and ' quarrels between the two men were frequent. Anderson thrashed the native, and burnt his mia-mia in order to drive him from ths locality. At 9 o'clock the same evening Anderson approached the tent in which the gm was sleeping, when the native sprang upon him with a spear. Anderson saw him coming, and stooped for a stick, but the black drove his spear clean through ths man's body, between the neck* and the collarbone, the- spear coming out through his ribs. Anderson died at once. Anderson's mate and the labra went to Siberia for assistance, and 40 diggers returned to avenge the murder, bat fouud that the aboriginal had looted the carap and cleared.into the bußh. The ' body was buried at Siberia, but the diggers evinced little sympathy for the deceased, knowing the-rela-tions existing between him and the Inbra.

INTERESTING DISCOVERS.

The American Government has instructed a noted analyst to examine and report upon certain mineral springs, which have been recently discovered to have an extraordinary enrative effect in cases of rhenmatistn 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 thesa spriugs, combined with certain botanic esferacts, 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, biliousness, and constipation. The result of this reraedy, when used in conjunction with Sequah's Oil, has been so remarkable as to have occasioned con siderable public interest.—[Advt.]

SPRING BLOSSOM TEA.