OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10631, 28 March 1896, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.

High School sports to-day. The Ashbnrn Hall Asylum inquiry is to"Dl [;. formally opened to-day. '

"That the floating population, here to-day, and away to-morrow, should have an equal say-j in the legislation of the day with the oldest settlers is surely a mistake," This is not an extract from a Tory organ, but from the Clutha Free Press. V

The Clutha Leader says that swaggers were never bofora so numerous in the Clutha district as they are at the present time. And they seem to have met with but very little success id their search for employment. C. Dickinson (late Bermsn's) for tobaccos, cigars, cigarettes, sticks, pipes, &c, Grand. Hotel Buildings.—Advt. ' A five-legged sheep, weighing 961b, was killed at Lougbeach station, Cauterbury, last week. The odd leg was'a fore one unfortunately, but it was perfectly formed. ■ t An overseer in the employ of De Beer s Diamond Mining Company was publicly horsewhipped recently, whilst returning from work, by the muscular dauglitsr of an ex-town councillor. It appears ha had been paving his addresses to the youug lady, and wtten she discovered that he was a married man she took action in the manner described.

At Messrs Innes aud M'Farlane'fl on Tuesday last, Miss Capstick and Miss Francis were the recipients of presents from their employers aud fellow employees ou the occasion of there leaving the firm's employ to be married. Mr M'S'arlane gave each of them a beautiful pair of vases and Mr Innes on behalf of the employees presented each with a handsome cruet and cheesecover. '

TORTURED, DISFIGURED, HUMILIATED, by unsightly skin aDd blood diseases. Is there hops of cure? Coticur*. remedies are the • Tt.'at«st of skin purifiers as well as Wood purifiers. Because of their peculiar action on the yores, they are successful in curing torturing, disfiguring, humiliating humours, when the usual remedies and even the best, physicians fail. Pure, sweet, economical, and speedily effective they especially appeal to those who have suffered long and hopelessly. Their use means a clear slim and pure blood, us well as sound bodily health. . 2j — It is a carious fact that the higher the civilisation of a race the slower the action of the senses. At any rate,' actual experiments have shown that, whereas the ear of a white man responds to a sound in IW-thousaudths of a second, that of a negro responds iv 130-tbon»anthß, and that of a Red Indian in 116-thonsanclths. Smoke JUNO TOBACCO.