OMNIUM GATHERUM.
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Cup cricket matches commence-this, after, ooon.
While tho Rimutaka isat Timaiu 20 ioinera will be at work night and day. Several mirier burglaries ore reported in Oamaru. The railway station was recently broken into, and a large number of keys fe&en away.
The pulling down of some.old houses in Drury Lane has exposed to view the graveyard described by Dickens in " B>e»k House " Twenty Deal boatmen, all ovtr 60 years old rowed a race the other day, their united aeea amounting to 1446 years. The coxswain of the winning crew was 85.
' The death is announced of Mr C. S. Hay. of Deepdell. , He was one of the first members of the Waihemo Connfcy Council. He leaves a widow aud family. The flying mouse is a recent discovery in-the Cameroon country of Africa. It is a link between tho bat and the trae mouse, has a tail like a mouse and heavy, gray fur, while its wings are not bo well developed as those of the bat,
The longest unbroken stretch of telegraphic cable m the woria is one which conneots the Ked bea vnth India. The weight of iron | m?J,°, ysa m its construction was no less than f^ljSjWlb. while the copper weighed 547,4Mtb; 3530 knots was the total length of cabie nsed. ■
At the InvereargiU Police Court yesterday Madge Bennett was fined £2 and costs for keeping a disorderly house; and Maty Moloney, the owner of the house, wss convicted and discharged, she being a widow in poor circumstances, with six young children. At the Crown Lands Office tbia week, section 16, block IV, Glcfckenich, containing 31a 3r 33p, was selected by James Ridditt. on ldase in perpetuity, at the capital value of 35i. Sestioa 36, block VII, Woodland, 5 acres, was disposed of to George Taylor, on lease in perpetuity, at the capital value cf 20s. .-A —In Euesia, till towards the early PJ^H the seventeenth cratury, a smoker's ri^^^^H cut off. - A EKAUTUTJL COMPLEXTO^^^H Apply Sulpholino Lotion. It j^^^^^^H pimples, blotches, roughness, re^^^^^^HH disfigurements. : Sulpholine dejj^^^^^^^^H kin. Is bottles. Made in Lonr^^^^^^^^l^H
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10495, 19 October 1895, Page 8
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351OMNIUM GATHERUM. Otago Daily Times, Issue 10495, 19 October 1895, Page 8
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