OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12007, 2 April 1901, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

At .the annual meeting of Iho Canterbury Rugby Union on Friday night it was.decided that the football season should open on April 20. •'■ . , ■' . A Juvenile Smoking Suppression Society his been'formed, in Sydney, and will prepnro a, public petition praying for restrictive legislation.. / ' Considerable excitement has been caused in TPeet Australia by the announcement that a shipment of 500 camels is expected shortly. ' .. i Wheels within wheels! If you read between the linos you will undorstand why at th» Sppsdwcll Factory, 155 George street, prico3 and quality are always so satisfactory. Enormous display of oycles and cycle accessories..... ■ ■'. ' : . A reunion of th? old colonists who came to Australia in the ship Malabar in 1853 \yas hold in the Vienna Uafe, Melbourne, on-March 7. • ■ ■ • ; At a recent meeting of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce'a resolution was carried deprecating tho granting of subsidies for mail services to foreign steamship owners. A Lutheran Conference, representing' Now South Wales, Queensland, ami Victoria, has just been hold at. Biirrumlmtloek, Albury, tho visitors bojng accommodated in a large marquee. A« tho whole of the deposit money on several selections on the Yarmouth run, Queensland, wero paid by one cheque, tho CunnamulU Land Board refund approval, pending inquiry. . : Sterlings are the most beautiful, strongest, best-built, and tho easiest running machines in ■■the Bassett, and Co., , solo ngentE. ~. , . A movement has been started in Tapmania to secure Sir/John Dodds the Lieu-tonant-Governorahip of that co'ony, and the idea is belioved'to bo favoured by the vast majority of Xasmanians. Mr D. A. Brodie, the New Zealand champion draughts player, cama from the south by last night's express to go up to P.ilmeraton, North on' Wednesday morning for the Championship'meeting. At Mosers iios3 and Glendininjjs factory Miss Richardson received a wedding present which took the form of a lamp and tca?et. The presentation was made by Mr AJ'Lennon on behalf of the employees.

• Boring operations for petroleum we still being actively carried on at Moturoa- (says 'the Taranaki Herald). The latest bore is now down a depth of 620 ft, but so 'far no indications of oil havo been met with. ;.'• The telegram published yesterday stating > that. the Colonial Ammunition Company manufactured at the' Auckland works and delivored to the Government 300,000 rounds of .303 ammunition should have stated that this was done during the month of March. The famous "Earl" bicycle is the best value in the market; price £17.105. Send 'for catalogue. Morrow, Baesett, and Co., Dunedin.... At the close of tße practice on' Friday lapt ' Miss Weitz.eJ. was presented by the members of Knox Church Choir with a' handsorna silver teapot and other silver ware in view • of her marriage. Mr A. J. Barth, organist, made the presentation, and Mr A. St. Braik replied for ;tho recipient. The Rev. C. C. Harper has received an encouraging letter- from Napier as to the ' manner in which the funds aro coming in ' for the Queen's Memorial College for Maori Girls. Mr J. N, Williams, of Hawke's Bay, has offered to give £1 tor every £1 donation contributed lay the Maoris whose land ' he leases. The secret of commercial 'siicctas is to know what people want and to be able to supply it better and cheaper than anyone else. The proprietors of " Tiger*' Teas claim to do this, and with confidence ask you to test this claim by trying the new 2s Tea. Tiger Teas' are * also sold at Is 6d, Is Bd, Iβ 10d, and 2s 2d;... At the Hunterville Court on March 27, before Mr Greenfield, S.M., George Lyons, • of Taihatie, was charged by the police (represented by Sergeant Dwyer) on 10 informations of sly. grog ; selling. The accused pleaded guilty to all the informations, and on the first' one was fined Si and costs (£7'l3b), and on the others was convicted and discharged. ' : The Hon. J. Carroll will visit Rotonia next month to arrange aEout the Maori reception to the Duke and Duchess of York. • The annual meeting of the " kotahitanga," dr union of tribes, which was to have been held at .Eotorua in April, has been adjourned to June 1. .■'.".;"'. Mr Martin Smith, the Crown lands ranger in Povery. Bay, has been instructed to furnish the Government with a report as to the extent and value of, the Motu forests, Mr. Smith is to accompany the Minister of Lands and the Native Minister when they • make their inspection of the Motu early next month.

Tobacco conservatives, and there are many, are those people who have a decided objection, to try any new tobacco, and often thereby deprive themselves of the greatest luxury. This fact was brought effectively before, the'/writer a few days ago, when he was prevailed upon to try the new make of "Harlequin," Tobacco. He found it milder and better flavoured than any other dark Tobacco, while not nearly so hot as the light aromatic kinds.,.. From private information, a. Grey papeif understands that the price of sleepers for tho Railway department, tenders fpr which have just closed, will bo greatly in excess of former contract prices. Some of them are as highias 3s 6cl and 4s per sleeper. This is on account of all the easy bush being worked out. The Masterton Racing Club was required to deposit a sum of £40 with the Railway department before the latter agreed to run special trains for the late meeting. The result is (says the Star) that the'club has sustained a loss of about £25. Ad the department discouraged tho "special" trains by conveying the bulk of the visitors in the main train, the club intends asking for eorne concession. Mr Coleridge Farr, who is supervising the work in connection, with tho Magpotio Observatory to bo erected in the Christchurch Domain, states that the Public Works department have almost completed the plans for the observatory, and the workof building it should bo put in hand soon. Mr Farr has brought one of the instruments for the observatory with him. Tho remainder are being manufactured in England. At the Adelaide Criminal Court, Charles Walter Chandler was sentenced to three mbntli3 in Adelaide Gaol and was fined £50 for a defamatory ■ libel' respecting Emma Bbwden. The libel complained of was contained in an article entitled " Darkest Adelaide," published in accused's paper, the Free Lance.

The Australian Agricultural Company's Borehole pit, one of the best-known collieriee at Newcastlo, is to be closed down permanently, having been worked out. It was , opened. in the sixties on the seam from which it took its name. For some years the pit has been worked with only a. few hands. A special meeting of the Greyimmth Harbour Board was held on Thursday (says the Argus) to consider an offer of the Knitar.gata Coal Company to lease boring lods of ,2000 ft and a diamond drill, with a hoiler, if necessary, for the purpose of boring for coal., The charge for four months or less is £250, the charge to be computed at this rate'it y>o plant is kept for a longer period. The . offer was accepted, and the secretary was instructed to telegraph to have tjie plant cent on at once. A man will also.be sent in charge of the plant. The advancing wave of material civilisation is nowhere shown more clearly than in agricultural methods and appliances:' the days of thq old hanger flail and the wooden plough are faat dwindling away in the face of that keen cOmne-tition which is so essential to financial farming. ■ . Foresight and sound commercial prudence dictate that tho best nnd most embracive implements are the cheapest in.the long run. It is because the M'Cormick harvester has been proved to possess all those qualities that it is gradually displacing other obsolete types. The annual increase in the sale 3 of M'Cormicks is simply phenomenal.... • The Napier Telegraph states that the followiug returned Hawke's Bay members of tho New Zealand contingents Have received their discharge, under an order from the department issued recently:—Lieutenants .T.. Ross.and J. G. Hughe?,'Privates A. Potersen. P. T. Emerson, T. C..L. Holroyd, A. T Wellwood, R. H. .Trotter, and E. Krogh. Of the above Lieutenant Hughes is now • on the staff. Lieutenant Ross is. applying for a captainoy in the seventh contingent, ond Privates Emerson and Trotter have been, / appointed lieutenants and Private Petersen sergeant in the seventh.

Tho secretary of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce (Mr H. Antill Adlejr) .has received a communication from Messrs J. D, Snrcckels and Bros. Company, agents for the Oceanic Steamship Company, stating that tho company has undor consideration the resolution passed by the recent Conference of Chamber of Commerce—that uniform rates of freight ho charged to all main ports of New Zealand, arid that the rates charged to • New Zealand ports, inclusive of cost of transhipment and coastal freight, shall not ex- 1 ceed the rate charged on like goods to Mel-' bourne. Tho West Australian , Government Geologist (Mr Gibb Maitland) has completed a lengthy trip from Cue, the centre of the Murchison goldfields, to Carnarvon. He re-. ports that during his examination of the country between the heads of the Woramel and Minilya Rivers, one of the most important contribution!; of this colony to science was obtained. He discovered, associated. with tho carboniferous rocks.in that district, an extensive deposit of glacial origin. This deposit he traced and proved over a distance of 60 or 70 miles. With the deposit were a large number of ice-scratched boulders, a quantity of which lie collected with a viewto their being brought to Perth. , The coEt of the Commonwealth celebrations was disclosed by Sir William Lvne in. a speech at Loekhart (New South' Wales) recently. The total cost was £92.000, but of that amount no less than £60,000 had been returned in (be shape of increased railway receipts. Sir William said the Government had considered it their duty to inaugurate the Commonwealth in. a manner'befitting such an important event, and although the sum expended was undoubtedly large, yet. when everything was taken into account, and the revenue from nil sources incidental to the celebrations considered it would be founrj that tlw inauguration of the Commonwealth' had really cost the State, very little.