OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10619, 14 March 1896, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.

It has been decided to create Sonthland a eepwate volunteer district.

Captain Cox has bsen appointed harbourmuter f.nd pilot at Nelson, at a lalary o£ £225

While engaged ia a friendly boring m&tcta with a comrade *t Bpritigsnre, Queensland, a shearer nimed Harry Rosen dropped dead from he&rt disaase.

A syndicate representing six woollen factories in Germany will shortly arrive in New Zealand with the view of mokrog direct contracts forthe purchase of wool.

Two juries having failed to agree in the ease of William King at the Oamara criminal sitting!, Mr Justice Williams bound over the accused in his own recognisance for good behaviour, and diechtrgsd him. According to an article in the Manchester Guardian, the police there are on the look-out for a man with many aliases who for years' has made a practice of marrying rich women, taking their property, and disappearing. . G. Dickinson (late BernWs) for tobaccos, eigsrs, cigarettes, slick*, pipes, &o^ Grand Hotel Buildings.—Advt. Constable Barrett, o? South Invereargill, has been suspended from dafcy pending the investigation by Inspector JP«rdy of a complaint that has been lodged against him. Oniog to the troubles in Abyssinia, Signor Borsalino Gniseppe, a wealthy Italian, who was on a visit to the colony with the guida Zutbiggen with a view to tome mountain climbing, has decided to at once return to Italy. A farmer at Rangiora has discovered that a horse running with some sheep was probably rpsponsible for some deaths blamed on dogs. The horse was seen lifting a sheep by the wool with it.i teeth and shaking it several times.

Another phase of the new woman. An advertisement is appearing in a Wanganui paper signed " Miss " J. Bnrgoyoe Hadson " Eeq.," Girls' College. " Bahemism," in the Press, suggests tliat if the title of "cEqoire" is to be adopted by women they should follow tho example of men who, wlien using it, drop the Mr.

A fresh information was laid against A. S. Wedderspoon yesterday before Mr Carew, S.M., for the alleged embezzlement of th» moneys of his late employers. Notwithstanding the alleged collapse of Gipsy Grand, the monster btnt of stationery, containing 48 snvelopes, 48 sheets of paper, pen, pencil, and blottiag, is still sold for Is. B. W. Donne, 121 George street. —Advt.

Attention is directed by several of our contemporaries that there is published on the back of the railway time table an advertisement which do re»pectable newspaper wenld publish, and which appears tn come within the meaning of the Offensive Publications Act.

An English paper, the People, coolly informs its readers that "there is a spider in New Zealand that usually throws coils of its well aboub the head of its prey until the wretched victim is first blinded and then choked. In many unfrequented dark nooks of the jangle you come across rocr/; perfect skeletons of email birds caught in these terrible snares."