OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11937, 10 January 1901, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

It is understood that the New South Wales Government have spent £150,000 on the Commonwealth celebrations. Almost tho whole whe'at crop in the Bombala district (New South Wales) has been ruined by recent hailstorms. Dr Ham, the newly-appointed Commissioner of Health for Queensland, has arrived frem England. ' Christmas Day was oppressively hot in Melbourne, 95.9deg in the shade being recorded at the Observatory. No less than 6000 families in the city and suburbs of Sydney were to receive assistance during Commonwealth week. Constable Cowan was presented with a gold watch-guard and locket on Tuesday evening on the eve of his departure for Cromwell. The Rev. J.-T. Burrows has accepted a call, from the Presbyterian congregation at Dipton. The induction ceremony takes place on the 23rd iust. ■ - Had it not been for the needs of the cyclist, many centuries might have elapsed before the travelling lamp was brought to its present pitch' of perfection. Perhaps the finest assortment of up-to-date twentieth century cycle.lamps is now on view at W. A» Scott's, 155 George street. ... There is every indication of a good harvest h the Auckland provincial district. In the Waikato and other districts the early oat and wheat crops are looking well. A six-roomed dwelling at Rivertou, owned by Mr J. Stevens and occupied by T. M'Carthy, was, witli the furniture and effects, destroyed by fire at. 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning. The lops is estimated at £300 and the insurance is £150. M'Cormick machines lead iii design, 'workmanship, and high quality of material,,.. The Manganese Syndicate now at work at Otau, Wairoa South, have about 100 tons of manganese ore ready to hend out. They are now driving in on a low level; and_ there is a large quantity of the mineral in'sight. In connection with the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York to Brisbane, the Government has arranged with Messrs C. ,T. Brock and Co. for a pyrotechnic display to cost £2000. At the Christchurch 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 Eace—was won by Connell (Temuka) on a Sterling At the Sydney court recently Charles David Ssmnders wai fined £50, or one month's imprisonment, for using the title of " Dr," thuß implying that he was a legally qualified medical practitioner.

Mr P. E. Sargood, -who for some yeara has heen manager of Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen's Dunedin branch, has been transferred to the firm's London house, and leaves hero shortly to enter upon his new duties. Mi=B fiellatly, s former dux of th 9 Otago Girls' Hitth School, who has been on the staff of the Nelson Girle' College for some time past, hnß been apnointed assistant mistress in the Wellington Girls' Httrh School. There were eight applicants for the position. A 10 a.m. delivflry within the Town Belt is now being made in connection with the N.Z. Express Company's '"Feighter" parcels service.... ' ... . ■ Tho Austral of 1900 was unique in that it carried the Invest first prize (£400) ever offered for an A.ustril. It was won for the first time by a New Zcelnndcr (A. O. Forbes) on his Red B'rd bicvele. The time established (4min 193-sp£c) is a world's record. Forbes was the only Red Bird rider in the race. In 1896 there was only Red Bird in the Austral, and it won in Australian record time. A remarkable performance for one machine. ■' • ■ M'Cormick machines make agriculture profitable. They harvest the crops of the world with the least expenditure of time and money.... ' ' ', According tn the Tapanui Courier a private letter from Mr Wfttson Ahram. now in the: Home country, indicates that horses of all kinds ore very dear, and a food draught stallion costs from £80(1 to £1500. First-class geldings bring up to £150 in Glasgow. Light horses are at famine pries. £810 being paid for a stylish «is horse in England. The prosperous farmer always has a M'Cormic.k machine.... IC. Burn, the redoubtable Tasmnnian cricketer, has shown his nrowess in the cricket field once more. The' Wellington team, for which he plays', scored 418 runs in their epeond innings agoinst Break o' Day at Hobart on December 29. Burn was one of the opening batsmen, and it the conclusion of.the innings his "core w.ii 208 not out. Morrow. Bassett, and Co. are sole agents in New Zealand for the M'Corniick Harvesting Machine Company, and the Sterling Bicycle.... ' ■ A ense of anthrax poisoning is reported from Tiingamali (Victoria). The sufferer is named Mrs White, wife of a well-known resident. A few davs ago she was bitten in the upner lip by a fly, and symptoms developed which are pronounced anthrax. Mrs White quickly bwnnie worse, and died in great agony. It is believed the fly contracted poison from the carcase of a dead horse. M'Cormiok machines are the best in the world. They work the best, requite the least power, and are the Most economical to the user.... Mrs J. Kearney, a verv old and resnected resirlr.nl of the Tunpeka- district, passed away on Now Year's morning at Beaumont road after an illness extending over manv months. Mrs Kearney, who was born in Tipperary, Ireland, left her home at a very young age for America, and after a residence of some,lo or 1?. years in that country left'for Victoria, where slip arrived in- 1859. She arrived in Dunedin in 1862, and soon after married Mr Joseph Williams, who died about 23 years aw. Mrs Kearney married r second time nbont 11 vears since, but left no family.— Tnapeka Time«; Paris Exhibition, 190 Q. — Grand Prize awarded to the Osborne-Columbia reaper and binde'.—Cable.... A Welsh clergyman sends. "M.A.P," the following interp=tini» Ut.tle scrap of Ooltio scholarship:—"Boden-Pownll," he " hns a Welsh family motto, and nn account of its containing one or two ohpnlefc Welsh words, put together in an ancient, Welsh style, Wel«h scholars have for some time be'n irt a loss to discover thr correct readi»g nnd interpretation of the old nrovorl) thus adnptod as a family motto. However, tl"'s particular motto has at last been discovered by a Welsh pcholp.r in nnniont MSS. Tt coitainptl but (svi> words. ' A'r Wv\ p\vyll. pyd. w'; the correct interpretation of which is ' Where rare, or discretion, or nrudence is not exercised, there is danger.' Whenever the motto comes to be inscribed on a«y article to be presented to the major-ffener.nl it is to bo honed thnt, the above version will be faithfully followed.