OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10570, 17 January 1896, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Japan has now 10 paper mills, turning out aa average of 65 tons of paper per day. About 60,000 persons commit suicide in Europe every year. Alcoholism is said to be the chief cause.

The residence of Mr E. Murrell,.Cromwell, was destroyed by fire on Friday last. It was iusured, with its contents, for £350 in the Norwich Union office.

Teviot peaches, apricols, and plums are npw infullswing. Lorieand Co. sell tbem by auction every morning at 10 o'clock at their new rooms, Moray place (opposite First Church). —Advt. jSsveral cases of typhoid fever have lately broken out at Waimate, and nearly all have been traced to one locality; The presumption is that bad water has been the cause of th« outbreak.

Mr Hales (engineer-in-chief) and • Captain Allman (marine superintendent) start for the Snares in the Hinemoa oa Wednesday next to make the survey for the new lighthouse which the Australasian Governments intend jointly tb erect.

Mr W. Goldie, J.P., presided at the Port Chalmers Police Court yesterday. James Barber, for drunkenness, was convicted and discharged. James Dow, for allowing bit chimney to catch fir*, wss fined 2s 6d Tourists in need of travelling rugs will find a superb stock and au immense variety of all the latest novelties from the Mosgiel mills at tha New Zealand Clothing Factory, Octagon. Inteuding purchasers sho aid see the brilliant display in window. Prices, ISs 6d to *ss.— Advt. "'

On the voyage of the Tarawera from Wellington to Sydney one of her crew (A. M'Kichaai, an A.8.) broke a blood vessel and died on the 4th inst., and was buried at Bea at 5 a.m. on the sth. Oaptain W. C. Sinclair, reportingthe death, said that tbo sailor was ooe of the oldest and most trusted men of his rank in the company's employ.

The bald statement ■of the amount of the judgment in the case of Jane -Brookes v. Henry Scott, which was heard in tho Magistrate's Court on Monday last, ' was somewhat misleading. Tbe plaintiff claimed to recover £3 10s for five weeks and three days' rent ■of a shop, and received judgment for 13s lid, this amount being arrived at by deducting from the sum which the magistrate found to be due for four weeks and six. days' rent a sum which the plaintiff admitted to be owing to the defendant for meat supplied by the latter.

— The most costly tomb in existence is that which wss erected to the memory of Mohammed, The diamonds and rubies used in the decor** tions are worth £2,000,000. Smoke " ROYAL COLORS " TOBACCOJ