OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11400, 18 April 1899, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Letters of naturalisation have been issued , to Niels Olsen. gardener, Lawrence, and Gerrit Samuel Yalkenburg, miner, Evans' Flat.' The North Otago ■ Times says that the ' • Manapouri will take away from Oamaru over 3000 sacks of potatoes for Sydney. Do you need a lamp, bell, or anything required on a bicycle? If so, go for best value to W. A. Scott's, Speedwell Factory, .155 George street... ■ i . Particulars pertaining to 35 estates of deceased persons placed under the charge of the Public Trustee during last month are gazetted. ' . ' ■ . The highest waterfall iv the world is Choloek Cnfcade. in the United States, which'is just half a mile high. : Kollod Oats.—All consumers say that Harhaw ay's are the best and cheapest: in the irarlfet—slb bags, Is; 21b packets, 6d' each.' Of all grocers.... Tho yields both of grain and hops in tho Motuska district, Nelson, have been splendid this season, but the prices ruling, do not give satisfaction to producers. There are at present 15 nationts in tho Napier District Hospital, and the whole" of the wards are full for the first time on record.' Worse still, the hosnital contains no fewer than 26 typhoid fever cases. Compassionate allowance equal to one year's salary (£164- ss) has bceu wanted to^Oouitablo Hole, who, on account of failing- li.aalth, has been retired from tho police; force. Hp has been'2o years in the New Zealand force, and was formerly in the Australian police. Astonishment is often expressed-by.-thosa not addicted to the smoking habit at the preference shown by lovers of the weed fpr their particular brand. Smokers, however, cm the' contrary, fully appreciate the fact that they attain Hie "acme of enjoyment only when their favourite tobacco is limur burned. Dunedinites travelling north ny abroad are cautioned that Harlequin 13 NOT obtainable EVEimvilEiiE. P.itter oxporiisnce lias, indeed, taught this fact to mam-.... Tho Medical Commission appointed to inquire into the causes of the severe epidemics of typhoid in the American camps diirius the wav report that the disease was undoubtedly spread by flies, and had it not been for these littlo pests there would have bceu but a ■fow isolaled cases. They are willing to stake their reputations upon these conclusions. In four hours recently a 'Paris Court granted 294 divorces—a little over a divorce a minute. All the parties received Slate assistance, in their cases, so that their divorces cost them nothing. Now it seems lhat an effort lia.s been made to balance matters, as in the little village of PlaugasHc! the other day 32 marriages wore celebrated at one stroke by the priest of the parish church.