OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11925, 25 December 1900, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Christmas Day. In November there were 4030 men employed on co-operative works in the colony. It is roughly estimated that the direct damage done by the recent bush fires at Thoona. (Vie.) is about £20,000, and Die indirect damage very much larger. Many persons had narrow escapes. Important Notice.—On Wednesday, 26th met., W. A. Scott's Speedwell Cycle Factory. 155 George street, will bo re-opened for the convenience of country visitors and customers generally. Large stock of Royal Enfields and New Hudson.3 on view

The foundation stone of what will be the first Orthodox Greek Church in Victoria was laid at Melbourne on December 19. The cost of the building is estimated at £3000. The net profit made at the recent Austral cycling meeting in Melbourne amounted to about'£lsoo.

For buffalo leather suites and carved sideboards, C. H. Hayward's, 103 George street, cannot be beaten....

His Excellency the Governor has cancelled the warrant accepting the services of the Clyde Rifle Volunteers.

Mr "William Wyinks, district land registrar at Invereargill, Ims been appointed registrar of the Supreme Court there. At the Chrislchureh Cycling Club's Jubilee meeting the riders of the Sterling bicycle secured 13 firsts, 13 seconds, and two thirds. The big event of the meeting—the New Zealand Wheel Race—was won by Connell (Temuka) on a Sterling. Send for catalogue. Morrow', Bassett, and Co., agents....

It is understood that Mr E. Piper has resigned the mastership of the Green Island School, it being his intention to enter into business in Oamaru shortly after the New Year. Whilst assisting to stop a bush fire at Avoca (Vie.) recently, a ganger, employed on the railway, George Ournick, was struck on tho head by a falling limb, and killed instantly. M'Cormiek machines are the best in the world. They work the beat, require the least power, and are the aiost economical to the user.'...

Letters of naturalisation have been issued to the following residents of Otaeo:— Emil Sorgel, Dunedin ; Louis Busch, Lumsden ; and Rudolph Neas, Makarewa. Mr W. W. Collins. M.H.R., has handed over to the lad Burns, who lost his arm at the Exhibition, the £40 received as sessional allowance from the Government.

The prosperous fanner always has a M'Cormick machine....

An indication of the prosperity of the times is to be found in the fact that every single vehicle in the various livery stables in town

has been hired for the Christmas holiday today. The Commissioner of Trades and Customs

has approved of and appointed' Benjamin's Bond, in Macandrew street, Dunedin, as a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond. Paris Exhibition, 1900. — Grand Prize awarded to the Osborne-Columbia reaper and binder.—Cable.... The Executive Council of New South Wales has decided that the law shall take its course in the cases of the aboriginals Jacky Underwood and Jimmy Governor, who are under sentence of death. Underwood will be executed on January 14-, and Governor on January

The congregation at Dipton have resolved (says the Western Star) to give a call to the Roy. ,T. T. Burrows, who was formerly minister of the Riverton AVesleyan circuit, but was received into the Presbyterian Church at the

late meeting of the synod. A 10 a.m. delivery within the Town Belt is now being made in connection with the N.Z. Express Company's "Feighter ' parcels service...

An inquest was held at Totara Flat last week on the body of Samual Trotter, whose body was found in a water hole. After_ a lengthy hearing the jury returned a verdict that deceased drowned himself while in a fit of temporary insanity. Mrs Fannie Howie was kind enough to sing to the patients at the hospital last Saturday afternoon, and the inmates showed the highest appreciation of her efforts. This morning the nurses hold their usual Christmas carol singing in the building, o pleasant proceeding which always meets with the favour of the'invalids. Alorrow, Bassett, and Co. are sole agent.? in' New Zealand for the M'Cormiek Harvesting Machine Company, and the Sterling Bi'The Winton correspondent of the Southland Times says that the induction of the "Rev. Geo. MT)onald to the Forest Hill, Browns, Hokonui, and Springhills charare took place on Thursday in the Forest Hill Church, when the Rev. Jns. Cummings preached. Rev. G Lindsay addressed the newly-inducted minister, and Rev. W. White the congregation. There was a good attendance, and a warm welcome was extended to the minister. At a social gathering in the evening Mr Baird who was their minister for 13 years and moderator of their church for eight years, was presented with n purse of sovereigns as a tangible token of their goodwill and regard. M'Cormiek machines make agriculture profitable. They harvest the crops of the world with the least expenditure of time ana Tlis'stated (says the West Coast Times) that the Public Works department will arrange for the tunnel work at the Otira Gorge at an early date, and will also extend the railwaj line" to the tunnel mouth and construct a bridee across the Otirn as soon as the plans ■ire complete. They contemplate employing from 200 to 300 men at the various works, which «houW be vigorously at work early in

JM'Cormiek machines lead in design, workmanship, and high quality of -.yiatenai.... The costumes which will dross the characters in Mr fieorge Musgrove's pantomime .Lintlo.rpUs •' are the most peaceful, costly, and artistic ever seen on the Australian stage, probably on cmv stage ™ the worltL Acl °^ which Mdlle: Darto wears on tbe stage cost £60. r.ml a cloak which Nellie Stewart wwvs is The Prince cost £80. whilst the Cinderella wedding dress, embroidered with silver ami fs!o t Sf^sou^ np:^n: wmmmm mcl Flint silk-' nlso. 1600 new umbrellas, ex Wairn^, price 1, Ud to 21 B ._At T. Koss's, lon: -_Tohu Anderson. Dmiedin. improv"! ap,'ionce for nnd method of sprinklm? butter with .salt, especially applicable to dairy factnrios- Kobirl Hni?li Bennie. Great finß 'tr«t:D™o«lin in^rovP^ flooring «n^ n:; ? ci,l!v" for dredges. Provi.vonal sp»«BcnX^"^^^ HoJ,rt Wales ; Pvi^e V tr^i r ,-vedvope™n, n r^dW.^to n heads of the wearers; Henry Hirst, Orepuki. lm'rovements in railwny and road graders: Robert Dalziell. Tnapcka %t, an improved hoe.

UNNECESSARY I-OSS OF TT\PE. Mr W S AVheaon. CVhier of tlio First National Bank of Wintersct, oaSJlerTn hTemploy. Hint will W value to other mechanics. Ho. says: I "d a carpenter working for me who was obl. R ed to ■stop work for several flays on account ot bein^ trouble,! with dinrrhrra. T mentioned to him tliPt I had been similarly troubled anil that Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy had cured mo. He bousrht a bottle ot it from the druggist hero and informed mo that one close cured him. and lva i, a-am at his work." For sale by all all dealers. Price Is 6d and 3s.