OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11795, 26 July 1900, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

On every shilling turned out, the mint makes a profit of nearly 3d. Ashanti has cost Great Britain in military expeditions over ten millions. During her entire reign, Queen Victoria has not worn her crown twenty times. i

A Chinese in Brisbane lias been fined £10, or three months, for supplying opium to blacks.

Canterbury (England) will erect a large

number of municipal cottages for labourers.

The presidents of the boroughs of Greater Ney,- York all favour municipal ownership of

gas. The Royal Enfield is looked upon to-day as the highest class machine by all cyclists for speed, pleasure, or fashion. Inspection invited.—Speedwell Cycle Works, 155 George street. Charles Dickens, in his twenty-four works, introduced us to no fewer than 1425 personages. Paris, Lyons, and Bordeaux are three leading French cities that have municipal restaurants. A girl named Sarah Herrick was killed at Deloraine (Tasmania) on the 14th inst. by a tree falling on her. A middle-aged man named Johnstone was walking down a street in Adelaide one morning recently when he suddenly paused, leaned against a wall, and then dropped dead. A hut occupied by Patrick Smith nntl a man. named Lonergan at South Darwin (Tasmania) was burned down recently. The former was burned to death, and the latter had a narrowescape. The Quickest, Best, and Cheapest method of Delivering Parcels in town or suburbs is The New Zealand Express Company's new "Freighter" system, commencing July 10.... A young Austrian named Francois Licheka, being disappointed in a love affair, committed suicide at Melbourne recently by shooting himself in the head with a revolver.

The Tapanui Courier statas that a draught mars was sold in Southland recently for £113. The late Mr Lindsay purchased this mare from Sir Eobert Cupples a few years ago for JJOKJ.

The smallest book in the world is in the possession of the Earl of. Duffei'in. It is an

edition of the sacred book of the Sikhs, and is said to be only half the siz» of a postage stamp. In riding over the battlefield of Driefontein the day after the battle, Lord Roberts came upon a wounded man, when he dismounted and gave him water out of his own bottle. Morsow, Bassett, and Co. are sole agents in New Zealand for the '99 daisy cart, patent steel horse collar, Sterling- bicycles, and the M'Cormick Reaper and Binder.... Telegraph wires are better conductors on Monday than on Saturday, on account of their Sunday rest; and a rest of three weeks adds 10 per cent, to the conductivity of a wire. A seam of lignite lias been discovered on. Messrs Kempthorne's farm at Park Hill (says the Tapanui Courier), and it is to be opened out at once, with a view to supplies of fuel being obtained.

The yield of gold in New South Wales for June was 14,9220z, as compared with 40,6760z for the month of June last year. The total yield for the six months this year amounts to 156.3560z, against 185,084-oz for the same period of last year. A'most successful Weslej'an demonstration was held at Perth in connection with the twentieth century fund. Subscriptions re-

ceived and guaranteed amounted to £14-,000.

The.nature of the damage done by the recent floods in New South Wales is indicated by the fact that in Wagga township. £1000 will have to be expended in repairing the streets alone.

The Sterling warrant is backed by experience, reputation, capital, capacity, honesty, and the Morse chain. The Sterling rider sits on certainty....

Nine persons were adjudged bankrupts in

the colony last week —viz., a tailor at Opo-

tiki, a fruiterer at Auckland, a labourer at Springfield, two seedsmen at Timaru, a contractor at Reefton, a farmer at Waikaia, a miner at Colac Bay, and an agent at Riversdale. The A.B.s of the Victorian naval contingent going to China are to be paid 7s 6d per day, and other ranks in proportion. The men will be equipped, and two guns.to accompany the contingent are to be specially mounted on carriages for land service.

A peculiar death occurred at Bellinger (New South Wales), on the 16th inst. T. E. Collins, school teacher, was wounded in the hand by the spur of a rooster, which he; was endeavouring to catch, and inflammation set in, causing lockjaw and death. One of the nicest and easiest riding gig 3 ever seen in this or any other country is the new Daisy Cart, truly a buggy on two wheels. A shipment of which has just been landed by Messrs Moerow, Bassett, and Co., Cumberland street; and the price is only £10 105....

The magnitude of the unemployed difficulty was shown at Sydney recently, when, for'4oo positions offered at the labour bureau, under the Minister of Works' scheme, 2000 men put in an appearance. From these the necessary selections were made.

When a sluice was being cleaned up at the Canadian Jewellers' Dredging Company's lease, which is in the viciniiy of the Eureka Stockade (BaUarat), a number of interesting relics were discovered. These comprised several bullets, some swan-shot, and several silver coins, impressed with the heads of George 111 and George IV.

At the Mosgiel Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, Arthur Ernest Ede, a prohibited person, was charged with having obtained a bottle of whisky, valued at 5s 6d, from Mrs O'Kane by false pretences. The evidence showed that accused represented that Mr Wm. Kirkland sent him for the whisky, as his daughter was very -ill. A sentence of one month's imprisonment in Dunedin Gaol, with hard labour, was inflicted, and Ede was ordered to pay the cost of the whisky by September 1.

The cool and comfortable condition in which horses using steel collars return from their work is a remarkable contrast to the heated and exhausted state of horses working in ordinary collars in hot or wet weaiher. The collars are lighter, stronger, cheaper, cleaner, and more comfortable than leather collars, and the only way to appreciate their numerous and undoubted advantages is TO " GIVE THEM A TRIAL." ~ MOEROW, BASSETT, and Co., sole agents....

At Cromwell, on Saturday evening, Mr James M'George, late dredgemaster of the Electric dredge, was presented by his late crew with a gold albert prior to his taking up the position of manager of the Magnetic, dredge. Mr John Johnston, in making the presentation, said the crew were sorry to lose Mr M'Georgo, but they were proud that he had secured the golden rooster before leaving the Ranfurly. Mr M'George, in thanking.the donors for their gift, stated that he was just going up the river a bit, and it would not be long before he took, the golden rooster up too. Mr M'George was also presented with a handsome tobacco poueli on behalf of Mr.. E. M'Nulty, who has had the contract for. carting coal to the dredge for over two years. At Christchurch, on Monday evening, the parishioners of St.-. Michael's and All Angels' tendered a farewell social to their late curate, the Rev. C. A. Fraer, prior to his departure to take charge of the parish of Waikouaiti and Palmerston. The Rev. A. W. Averill presided, and referred to the loyalty and devotion Mr Fraer had always displayed for the highest interests and spiritual welfare of the parish. The speaker ako expressed his ex-. treme regret at having to part with so able a coadjutor. Mr F. H. Barns, on behalf of the parishioners, presented Mr Fraer with a cheque, which had been subscribed by over 200 parishioners, and conveyed to the recipient an expression of the parishioners' high appreciation of the services rendered by Mr Fraer during his residence of four years in the parish.

At a meeting of the Invercargill W.C.T.U; on Monday, several important matters were discussed (says the Southland Times), and in regard to the Removal of Women's Disabilities Bill the following resolutions were passed:—(l) That the members of the Invercargill. W.C.T.U. regret the unworthy and illogical manner in which the proposal for the removal of women's disabilities was discussed in the House of Representatives: (2). that, in the opinion of this union, the artificial limitations placed on women are against their best interests and ought not to be tolerated in a young and free country; (3) that the Government be respectfully urged to pass a, measure for the removal of the civic and political disabilities of women; (4) that a copy of the foregoing be forwarded to the Premier, and to the M.H.R. for the district. Copies of a resolution protesting strongly against the granting of licenses in the King Country were also ordered to be sent to the Premier and to Mr Hanan.

— The Hebrew population of London has more than doubled during tho last 20 years. It is now' estimated at 120J000.

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