OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10999, 31 December 1897, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

last day of 1897. y« There 'will,be ao publication of the Daily Times on Monday morning. ■Messrs Archibald Miller and Co. are the successful tenderers for the supply of groceries tp the Industrial School at Caveraham. .The mails per Ormuz, which left Melbourne oa November. 23, wrived in London on December 26,' three diya early. ■_ The Westpo?;G Harbour Board has decided to. set aside £100U per annum towards the creation of a reserve fund of £10,000 to provide against any emergency ths>'t may arise. • There were' eight bankruptcies m the colony last weekr^ ««ekeeP?r» a sailmaker, two tiilorc, a contractor, a coach painter, a baker, :anu a *jire ihattrass manufacturer. ••• A Nativrfjiaraid Hamuera Raikintea. one or. the three members of the Ngatiapa triberwho signed the [Treaty of Waitangi,. died at Parewanui, Bujls, lait week. . He was 96. years oE

A staggeringJight on Christmas or fe dear's Nig&WloVsuggest =a' " high time" ! bufcaather^tQafi'Mno mbon, a lamp snould neverthelel^fcwiied. It may be some_ contblatiou to knoir that, a good piece o£Cnnsfci mas pudding asi warranted to steady the aver»ge cyclist under even extreme circumstances. ■JffflTJS^ the North O^o district fbr tfie pofcato^cmp^g ,dl as for s te_crop^ , ■■I laanintervieV with the Wellington Post Dt Newman, 'who iaß^ust returned from a visit to" London5, »T#Wt Bngltad ib thtfßO sfe^progressive countr^onthefacepf the globe, lhere are now UOOf:motor cars on the skeets_ot London, and o 'successful ate. thesa proving that the doe&r ihiflks their-introduction to this country irfl do>war with the necessity for light railways:' With reference to architecture in the old country; DK'Newnian «»ys that all 'the new>ui»in Eogland, from the 15s subBrbanv^la t? the. mansion, are beautiful in desisn, seVerily contrasting with the ugliness ,6f the houeesSf New Zealand. q ?- During the memorable storm Ot the IUMI korember, tie Catbiaiic Church at Micyip, in '"Victoria," w«e»nt)ed over to an alarming extent. Ijlej'Ty were placed in position to save it ibllapsipg completely, thesex being forced into %c grotod b> great spikes. A day or two since IS" whir&ind' came, and blew the buildmg into Position; again, fit in now as plumb as the day M was builti the" spikes holding,the props^to :the ground/being drawn by the building righting its^f^-f . '""

v-MELUN'sfe'ooK'for Infants and Invalids. .Perfectly ad wed *'f.qr the youngest infant. Keeps good in alljlimafes; free from animalgerms. To be obtaiue-f from all druggists and stores.'