SHETLAND RELIEF FUND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12005, 30 March 1901, Page 11

SHETLAND RELIEF FUND.

Mr J. J. Ramsay, secretary of the Shetland relief fund, reports that at tho Inst meeting of tho committee three men of well-known integrity, living on tho scene of the disaster, were appointed to represent the subscribers. Tho money collected is to be sent Home to thoso gentlemen, and they are to bo empowered either to hand it over to thoso tor whom it ha 3 been collected oi put it into the fund that is being raised. These men were recommended by several Dunedin residents who hail from that part of Shetland, and one of them is the parish minister. Mr Ramsay also reports to us that bo ha 3 received from an inland district in Otago ovc" £10, collected by a settler there, who was himself left an orphan many years ago through a similar disaster.

Mr J. J. Kamsay, treasurer, of the Shetland relief fund, acknowledges the following donations:—

Already acknowledged, £iS 17s Gd. Per Sit John Moncricff (Gibbston).—John Moncricff £1, Mrs Moncrieff £1, John Chalmers 10s, D. J. M'lntosh £1, A. Gcer ss, J. Lee 3 2s Gd, C. M'Donald 3s, J. Yardley la, G. Parkson 2s Gd, W. Henderson 2s Gd, G. Sutherland 2s Gd, J. Lyttlc 2s, J. A, Chalmers ss, P, Thomas 7s 6d. D. M'Cormack 2s Gd, D. Nicolson ss, S. Stevenson 2s Gd, Why to 10s, G. Fitzgerald 2s Gd, A, Brown ss, T. Connor ss, C. Rilktono 4s, H. Cook ss, E. Lyttle 2s Gd, T. Cassidy 10s, P. Docherty 2s 6d, A. Scott ss, D. M'Lcan £1 Is, D. Reid ss, E. Perrian ia, J. Mncabs 4s Gd, A. Lester 2s, W. Hervey 3s, A. M'Nab ss, Winrop ss. Per Mr Robert. Sinclair (Port Chalmers).— A. G. M. 2s Gd, J. S. 2s Gd, J. G. 2s Gd, J. E. G. 23 Gtl, J. Bruce ss, J. .Greig 2s, F. Gollingwood 2s, T. S. ss, H. Cameron Is, 1). Kennedy ,2s, D. Wiseman 2s, friend 2s Gd, H. dates 2s, J. Cameron 2s-Gd, A. Mackenzie 3s, R. Anderson 2s, C. Wingate Is; It. Itahsan 2s, P. M'CalInm 2s, W. Johnson la, G. W. C. Is, C. F. Kckton Is, W. Gibh 2s, J. H. Is, W. M'Cormack 2s, W. Campbell 2s, W. Clark 2s, T. White. 2s, A. M'Donald 2s, W. Campbell 2s, A. Andersen ,3s, Simson Is, D. M. 2s, G. Callnm ss, J. Wntson, juu. 6s, friend Is, J. Watson, sen. 10s, A. Walker ss, J. Jackson 2s Gd, T, James 2s Gd, C. Inverarity 2s Gd, R. Sinclair ss. Per Own List.—B. Radden (Fortrose) 10s, Mr 3 Thomson (Middlcmarch) ss, J. P. ss, Hon. W. M. Bolt £1 Is, Mrs Sutherland (Bolcluthn) £1, Mrs J. Henderson (Morton), 10s Gd, James Enarston (Taiori Beach) £1, Mrs Milier (George street) 6s. Per L. Irvine—Details not to hand, £'2 r Mr M. Johnson's Lint.—Details of amount previously acknowledged. C. Cans 2s, J. H. Cameron 2s Gd, Barclay 2s Gd, D. Scott 2s Gd, F. Martin ss, A. 11. Weill 2s 6d, Charles Polio sa, Fife 2s Gd, Mitchel 2s, Logic 2s Gd, T. Fiddis ss, R. Weir 2s Gd, G. Fraser ss, J. Hennick 2s Gd, 11 at Is, FuHcrton 2s, J. Martin 2s, M'Kay ss, M'Curday 2s Gd, T. Tlioinpson ss, A. Mackay 2s Gd. Gilden 2s, Distress 2s, M. Stevens 2s, H. Paton 2s Gd, Warren' 2s 6d, R. Patersou 6s, Botting Bros. 2s, friend 2s Gd, J. Brown 2s Gd, D. 'ihompson 2s Gd, J. Brooks 2s Gd, G at Is, M. Johnson 10s, C. Williamson ss, B. Birm 2s Gd, S. Burgos 2s Gd, A. Austin 2s Gd, P. Dalzel 2s Gd, A. Graham 2s Gd, T. Nelson ss, J. C. Stewart 2s Gd, J. Dow 2s Gd, R. Jameson 2a Gd, J. Walker 2s, W. Amies 109, Thomas Millroy 2s Gd, G. Freeman 2s Gd, T. E. S. 2s 6d, G. Griffin 2s Gd. R. Jameson 2s Gd, J. Blaney ss, J. Rankin ss, Euirio 2s, J. Dawson sb. G. ss, C. facott 2s Gd, J. Jolly 4s, G. Reid 2s Gd. Keys 2s Gd, J. Howord 2s 6d, Dennostoi 2s, Bryant 3s, W. Dowell ss, Scymore 2s Gd, E. Noilson 2s, Burstoff 2s Gd, W. C. Win 10s, G. Smith 2s Gd, Kane 2s Gd, R. P. Bolting 6s. King 2s Gd, S ,T. Lyon 2s, J. Muirhead 2s Gd, W. I. 3s, J. J. 2s Gd, Richardson Is.

— Straw is put to strange uses in Jarcui. Most of tho horncs am shod with straw, Even tho clumsiest of cart-horses wear straw shoos. In their case tho shoes are tied round (ho ankles with straw rope, and aw made of tho ordinary rico straw, braided so that they form «, solo for tho foot about half an inch thick. Thoso eolcr cost about a halfpenny nor nair, and when they are worn out they are thrown away. Every rart has a stock of fresh now shoes tied to tho horse or to tho front of tho cart, and in Japan it was formerly the custom to measure distance) largely by the number of horse shoes it took to covor it. So many horso shoes made a day's journey, and tho averago Bhoe laeled for about eight milo3 of travel.