OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11201, 25 August 1898, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

The Spanish West Indies have an area of 46J000 square miles. . ' . ■.-, •The effort; to. make sugar from beet dates back as far as the year 174-7. Only 116 divorces have been granted in Canada during the last 20 years; The Danes were the first to abolish slavery in their West Indian possessions. Five hundred trading vessels leave the Thames daily for all parts of the world. ■ In 1695 a tax-was imposed on births, the lowest fee being 2s. Dukes had to, pay over .£3O. ' .. ' ■ ' . The pubiie, press, trade, and cyclists are all of the united opinion tliat Dunlop Tyres , and Dunlop Welch Rims are the best combination for all conditions of service, which is backed up by a liberal guarantee... India is 1,800.000 square miles in extent, or nearly two-thirds the size of the United States. • ■ ■ '■ A number of co-operative workmen on the ' Rotorua-Oxford road had returned to Auckland dissatisfied with the rate of pay—3os per chain. Their earnings per man for six we^eks amounted, to £9 15s 7d. The opinion of a local firm of 7jroduce agents expressed in a letter addressed to tho Ciity Council is "that the habits.and customs of a portion of Dunedin's population are simply filthy in the extreme." A well-known Kimberley (South Africa) man has offered to a •committee of resideuis of the town £5000 to establish a home for consumptives, provided a further 3um of £5000 can be raised towards equipping and furnishing a building. Astonishment is often expressed by those not addicted- to the smoking habit at the preference shown by lovers of the weed.for their particular brand. Smokers, however, on the contrary, fully appreciate the fact that they attain the' 'acme of enjoyment only when. THEIR favourite tobacco is being burned. Dunedinites travelling north or abroad are cautioned that Harlequin is not obtainable BVEariFUEr-i: Bitter experience has, indeed, taught this fact to many.... Tho Walsall Observer of the 25th Juno ronorts that Mr Frank .11. James (son of Aa\ Frank James), who was recognised as one ot the loadinc- merchants of Valparaiso, has beer, appointed"by the Foreign Minister of Ohm to be Chilian Consul in Manchester. .Che father of the new consul mentioned above is a brother of Mr Sydney James, of this city.