OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10601, 22 February 1896, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.

D. J.C. races continued to-day. : The Premier emphatically denies the report that the Hon. Mr Ward is likely to resign.

An Assyrian hawker who deposited a sum of money in the Inve>\-:argill Post Office Savings Bank declined to lift the interest on withdrawing his cash.

Neison Bros, explain that the reduction recently mentioned iv tbe telegrams applies only to sheep in the Wellington and Wanganui districts.

Teviot peaches, apricots, and plums are now very plentiful. Lorie and Co. bold three monster sales to-day at 10 o'clock, I o'clock, ond 6 o'clook.—Advt. , >

At Masterton the other day a hotelkeeper was fined £5 and costs for neglecting to stamp a receipt for money given to him in trust by a lodger. ■".'.• Mr Hawkins, S.M., says that when the legislators passed the Shops Act their intention no doubt was to hold a fruiterer's business to include selling of seeds, vegetables, aerated waters, and all that kind of thing.

Responding to the request of investors on Gipsy Grand in the Cup, E.'W.. Dunne will supply 18 envelopes, 18 sheets note, pan, pencil, and blotting for ls. Inspection invited. 121 George street.—Advt. Mr D. Palson, of the Otakou School; ha» received the appointment of first assistant ta the Stratford School, Taranaki. General regret is expressed at tbe Heads at Mr Palson's coming departure. The long partnership between Messrs Brough and Bounicault wiU terminate on June 19, nf ter having been in. existence since October 1883. Mr Boucicault proposes to return to London aud to settle either there or in New York, while Mr Brough will remain in the colonies, at auy rate for a time, in charge of a company, with Mrs Brough as leading lady. A stockman who rode through the WekaPasi on Thursday states (says the Cbristchureh Press) that he passed through a cloud of moths, which settled on himself and bis horse in such numbers tbat there was not a square inch of either uncovered. The oloud kept with him for a quarter of a mile, when he got free of it. Ths moths rose from the road like a sh«et of holland cloth boing lifted into the air. Passengers by the train report that they saw a laVge numbel of moths.

A CURIOUS THINH is a sweat glnnd. Its mouth is called a pore. There aro 7;too,o<Xl in tha human skin. Through them are discbafeed many impurities. To close them mes-Jis death. Sluggish, clogged, or overworked pore* mean yellow, mothy skiu, pimples, blotches, eczema. The blood becomes impure, hence sorious blood humours. Perfect action of the pores means clear, wholesome skin, puie blood, beauty, and health, Cuticura remedies exert a peculiar, purifying action upon the skin, and through it upon th« blood. Hence their cures of torturing, disfiguring humour* of the skin, scalp, and blood are speedy, permanent, and economical. 2!