OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11796, 27 July 1900, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

The Gazette contains the regulations which are in force under the Law Practitioners Act. The Federal mail which left Melbourne, per Oceana, on June 20, arrived in London on July 23, her due date. Numbers of dead rats havo recently, been found by gangers on the Dannevirke section of the railway line. Detective M'llveney, of Wellington, has arrived here in order to take the place of Detective Boddam at the central station. The Eev. W. W. Brown, of Dipton, has accepted a call from the Limestone Plains congregations, and his induction has been fixed for August 29. No messing with the Calcium King: the world's simplest acetylene lamp. Best light, with least trouble. Price 15s.—'W. A. Scott, 155 George street.... . By the s.s. Mokoia, from Melbourne, on Tuesday, there arrived at Invercargill, in good health and condition, three young deer—a stag and two hinds—for the Southland Acclimatisation Society. They are only about nine months old. The British Government keeps 11 vessels at work sounding and charting the ocean beds to find out. where dangers lurk. Last year 10,000 square miles were carefully charted in different parts of the world. The latest combination in furniture, is the couch bath. On the top of the couch being removed, which can be done very easily,'a regulation bath is disclosed, with a water tap at the pillow end of the couch. The use of a separate comb in haircutting is made unnecessary by a new implement, which has a comb formed on the side of one of the blades of the scissors, with the teeth ' graduated in length to bring the cutting straight.

The Quickest, Best, and Cheapest method of Delivering Parcels in town cV suburbs is The New Zealand Express Company's new "Freighter" system, commencing July 10...;

With regard to the insurance on the Waimate fire, the Oamaru Mail learns that the building, which is owned by Major Steward, is insured for £200 in the Phcsnix office.

The coal prospecting bore at the Brunner mine has been given up for a bad job, for the present at any rate, as no indications of a coal seam were found at 250 ft, the depth to which the bore was put down. Mr William Davis Anderson, a very old colonist, died at Warahoe last week at the great age of 95 years. He had been 69 years in the colony, and was married to a Native woman at St. Paul's Church, Auckland.- He leaves four sons, the eldest of whom is nearly 60 years of age.

It is estimated by Mr Connett, chairman of the Taranaki Freezing Works Company, that something like 200,000: boxes of butter will lie shipped from the Taranaki district next season. Two years ago the quantity exported was 80,000 boxes.

.Mobbow, 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....

The barque Magiiat, which went ashore between Capes Patterson and Liptrair (Victoria) early in. May last, remains in. the-game position. The steam tug Rescue has been for some time at the scene endeavouring to get the vessel off. '.-'..

■ The death sentence passed on an aboriginal named Larry, at Normanton (Queensland), for murdering a- child, has been commuted to penal servitude for life, on the understanding that the case will be considered later. It appears that Larry was, following a tribal custom in killing the child,~ because it was deformed. .»

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

Hedley Stutley, ajjed 15, and Peter M'Laren, aged 14, were ordered to the reformatory school at, Adelaide until. 18 years of age, the former for manufacturing counterfeit coins, from threepenny pieces to halfcrowns, and the latter for disposing of them. A complete coining plant and 157 counterfeit coins were found in the house where one of the boys lived

A noted and influential chief of the Ngatiran?itihi tribe named Mehaka has died at Matata, Bay of Plenty, and a largo number of Natives from all along tbe coast and island have gathered for the tangi. Deceased was uncle of Mr Raureti, a well-educated young Native advocate, now engaged conducting business before the Land Court at Majsetu. _ One of the nicest and easiest riding gigs 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. Mobrow, Bassett, and Co.',' Cumberland street; and the price is only £10 105....

The following is a notification by the Pioton Maoris:—"We, the Elect of Te.Aroha Nui, Waikawa, hereby give notice that under the Seventh Rule of Jehovah, men, women, and "children have strictly agreed not to " take spirits of any kind; also, that any person or persons intoxicated, or having bottles of spirits on them, shall not be allowed to enter within our gates, or rourid about." There is just now on view in Ashburton a very handsome greenstone pendant, all the parfsbe'ing set in gold, which is intended for presentation to Sir.George White, the hero of Ladvsmith. It bears the inscription: — " To General Sir George White, defender ot Latlysmith, S.A.. 2nd November, 1899, to 28th February. 1900. From admirers m Ashburton, N.Z:"-This gift to Sir George ■is the outcome of the sale of aheifer, donated by Mr W. J. Siloock. some weeks.ago. _ • 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 weather. 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 4 TRIAL." MORROW, BASSETT, and Co., sole agents.... The football matches in Melbourne' are' this season bcin^r attended by a revival of the spirit of ruffianism which some years ago did much to bring the game into discredit." It is now a common occurrence for the umpire and nlayers to be on the watch for. hostile nttacks when leaving the playing ptround, and on several occasions they have been badly mauled by partisans of the losing side.

— The mule has many advantages over the horse in the present campaign, especially because he has the reputation of being ablo to hang on to a precipitous pathway whore a horse could not be-made to venture. He not only is much froer from disease than the horse, but his skin is thicker, and the nostiferous African insects cannot make life- an additional burden to him. Ho isn't half so particular ns a horse about what he eats or drinks; and if ho has to work alonjj on short rations he is still contented. Put blinkers on him, and have a wliito horse to lead the procession, and we will go anywhere. TO THE PUBLIC. I want to let the people who suffer from rheumatism and sciatica know that Chamberlain's Pain Balm relieved me after a number of other medicines and a doctor, had failed. It is the best liniment I hovr- ever known of.— J. A, Dodgkn, Alpharetta, Ga. Thousand! have been cured of rheumatism by this remedy. One application relieves *-!ie pain. For Bait by all dealers; price, Is 6d, 3s . .