OMNIUM GATHEBUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10625, 21 March 1896, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHEBUM.

NEWS AND GOSSIP. Anniversary races to-day. A school excursion train from Milton toOwatca on Wednesday conveyed aboat 750 children and adults to the latter place. The Rimulaka took away gold valued ai £107,020, which is fche rnost valuable shipment ever taken from the colony in one vessel.

The B&lclutha school children, with their guardians and friends, numbering in all upward* of 400, had a trip per special train to Dunedin on Thursday. A large willow tree, for many years a landmark at Richmond, New South Wales, fell without warning right across the street. It wag found fco be quite hollow, havirjg been eaten away by insects. Tar in large or small quantities at Morgan and Co.'s (practical asphalters) works, Sb, Andrew street.—Advt.

At Seaoliff Asylum, on the 14th inst., Mr A. Bird, who bat resigned from the service, was presented by the asylum staff with a handsome gold albert chain and locket. C. Dickinson (late Berman's) for tobaccos, cigars, cigarettes, sticks, pipes, &c, Grand Hotel Buildings.—Advt. . . The Balclurha Technical Classeß Association recaive £111 3s lid us a subsidy of pound for pound on the amount raised by the association last year. The association has at present a credit balance of £50. Starting the year, therefore, with a credit of over £160 the association is in an eminently satisfactory position. Messrs Moss Jonas and W. Evans resigned their seats on the Timaru Harbour Board fcfl obtain an expression of public opinion on shingle shifting, which they opposed. The election took place on Thursday, and created unususl interest. The voting was as follows :—• Jonas 144, Evans 137, Grandi 135, Kiug 130.

We have received from Mr J. Braithwaite " Simple Exercises in the Variations of Vowel Sounds of the English Language," arranged and illustrated by Clarence Woodhouse, and published by George Robertson and Co. The littie book is intended for use in school, and it should prove of great service to teachers of th« young. It is highly commended by bodm educationists, who think it should be in general use io schools.

MOTHERS, DO YOU REALISE how yoni little ones suffer when their tender skins are literally on fire with itching and burning eczemas and other itchine, scaly, acd blotchy sMn aud scalp diseases? To know that a warm buth with CoTicmu Soap and a single application of Cuticura (ointment), the great ekin cure, will, in the great majority of cases, afford instant relief, permit rest and sleep, and point to a permanent and ecenomical (because so speedy) cure, and not to use them without a moment's delay, is to fail in yonr duty. No greater legacy can be bestowed upon a child than a ekin without blemish and a body nourished with pure blood. ' ' 19