OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12243, 6 January 1902, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

+ From tireymouth last week (he Blackball Company shipped 715 tons coal, and the Briuitici' Company 90 tons. ilr C. C. Hiitton.. .'M.'A., of Clyde, has been admitted'as a solicitor and barrister of the Suprwne Court of New Zealand. The output of cheese from Wairarapa this season is estimated at over 1000 tons, valued at between £45,000 and £50,000. Several light fingered gentlemen plied their nimble calling with success at the sports and carnival at Oamaru. Before the usual fortnight's holiday enables the cyclist to take his annual spin across country he shonld' Tun his bike into W. A. Scott's for a thorough overhauling. Many little things—"stitches in time"—may require attention....' The planet Venus, at present a striking object in the western sky of an evening, attains her maximum brilliancy on the 9th inst. During, the last trip of the steamer Cavanba. from' Sydney to Byron Bay, a steward was lost'ovcrboard. His name is unknown. The earnings of cane-cutters in Queensland aro said' to ' have been the best for somo seasons past, the leading gangs averaging over £3 per week. Fifty out qf every hundred mowers sold around the world bear the name of M'Cormiek. The best hope of competition is to make machines "just as good as M'Cormick."... At Orange (New South Wales), James Bowyer, 42 years of age, has been committed for trial on a charge of abducting a girl of 16 years. The wool receipts at Newcastle so far this season show u decrease of 8435 bales when compared with the corresponding period last year. The output from the Westport Coal Company's mines last week was 7722 tons. The total output of oual in the Westport district last year was 453,863 tons, of which' 20,300 tons were from the Co-operative Company's mine and 433,563 tons from the Westport Company's 1 mine. You buy moke in the M'Cormick than in any other niaehin'S.... To-day's date—January 6—will be long remembered in the British army. It is the second anniversary ' of' the great assault— unsuccessful assault—on Ladysmith by the Boers. '.'.','. A very pleasing function took place at the school residence, Hampden, on Thursday night. A deputation from the employees of Moeraki station waited on Trooper Watt, of the Eighth Contingent, and presented him with n handsome gold watch set in a bracelet, and suitably, inscribed. At the Canterbury A. and P. Society's show held at Cliristchurch this month the M'Cormick reaper and binder won the onlygold medal. This medal was awarded for progress, and all- kinds--of-Agricultural implements and machines were included in the conditiens.... At the Ophir Magistrate's Court on the 19tli lilt. Thomas Weir and James Weir were charged with sly grog-selling. The hearing of the cases was adjourned to January 30. , A mob of 400 fat ewes, the property of the Fnirbairn Pastoral Company, Queensland, dird lately from the effects of the heat while being driven from Beaconsficld to Delta. Many similar instances are recorded. The prizo of ono guinea offered by the Mayor of Hokitika for.a motto for the wa..- memorial in that town was won by Misri Vida Perry with the line " N'on oibi sed patriae" ("Not for self, but for country.") Morrow, Bassett, and Co. are sole agents for Sterling bicycle?,- M'Cormick reapers and binders, mowers, and hay rakes, and "Little Wonder" seed sowers. Send 'or catalogues.... The following are the returns of I'ailway traffic to Oamaru on New Year's Day:— i On Timaru line, 750; Kurow branch, 500; i Ngapara train, 300; Toka-Rahi, 250; Pal- | mcrslon, 500; Dunedin, 250. This is a total of 2700, or about double the numbers of previous years. | As an instance of the extent to which far- . niers nro being affected by the present low I prico of wool, the Hawoia Star states that at a recent sale a bale of 4021b of first-class j English Leicester brought bu*- per lb, j and netted the grower but £1 3s 3d, less i exchange. A short time ago a liale of such ! wool would Lave been good for £20. j The large sum of £2300..wa5. paid away for milk by the Crown Dairy Company In I the Woodville district for the month of 1 November, says the Dannevirko Advocate. I Ono.settler, close to Woodville, started iho month with 15 milking cows, and finished the month with 2), and his cheque for the month was between £31 and £32. | A..correspondent of thc.Waikato Argus • givos the following facts as showing how I serious the heavy fall in wool is to the , farming interest. Two years ago he netted 3s Bd. per. head. This year, the result is only j Is Id. 1 Nine pairs of dressod table poultry, exhibited at the South Canterbury Poultry Society's show last July, were shipped Homo in the Papanui, the prizes having to be awarded according to the prices obtuinod for the birds in London. Word has been received that the birds were among the produce destroyed by the unfortunate fire on , the steamer.

As bearing on the controversy as to th( position of the hoot manufacturing industry in New Zealand (says an exchange), it may be mentioned that in Christehurch ona firm of boot manufacturers is building a factory to accommodate 500 hands and "an another to accommodate, 300. Early rising, we are told, is x marvclloui prescription for longevity: you get more life into the year and more years into your life. You can get more solid enjoyment out of half an hour on a " Sterling " bicycle than a week on any other The ago.nl for (|,o Labour Bureau at limani has several vacancies for farm Mid station hands at present, and he informs the. Herald that labour, especially lads for country work, is diflicult to obtain. At the present lime ho has vacancies for a general arm hand, ami for five lads who can milk, kill sheep, and make themselves generally u.-cful on a farm. The Auckland Herald's Huntly correspondent states that ,vl,il s t at (lie funeral of the little girl Doris Thomas (who was drowned in the Waikato River), with n gig carrying the coffin, Mr Fisher's horse, which he was driving, took fright at a hat which was blown off by the. high wind. One of the traces of the trap breaking, tho git; was upset upon Mr Fisher, who sustained serious injury to his legs, necessitating amputation below the knee. Another man was also injured m the accident. , A peculiar accident is related as happening to a lad named Herlett at a Victorian creamery. Noticing the frosting on the pipes in the refrigerating room, he put his tongue against it, with the result that ho was unabe to withdraw it. lie remained lilerally glued to the pipe , mt il Mc \, efforts ns he could put forth attracted attention, and then the tongue had to bo separated from the frosting with a knife. The Maiiga-a-toro settlement, Hawko's Bay, of 19,022 acres, will bo opon for selection up to the 21st January next. The settlemcut has been subdivided into 20 rural sec ions, ranging from 309 to 1000 acres ami six grazing runs of from 1025 acres to 11(7 acres. The quality of the land and its proximity to a good business centre like Daiinovirkc should mako the property gpccially suitable for close settlement purposes. , r,V £• • lcim .vn, of Adelaide, received fiom the Duke of Norfolk a handsome memento of their acquaintance in South Africa. 1 us consists of a silver inkstand, with two silver-mounted bottles, suitably inscribed. Ine Duke, in his note, asks the doctor to accept the gift as a mark of his gratitude for the kind and efficient help he received from him on the march to Pretoria. The duko suffered a fracture of the hip joint through a fall from his horse, and Dr Jcrmyn successfully treated him for this. A correspondent writes as as follows:I have ost all my money in the recent dredging boom; even my health has suffered.fortunately I „ se d 'Hall's Tone lonic iii time, and this not onlv restored my shattered nerves, but rendered me clear enough that I resolved never to touch another share." Price 2s 6d: all chemists and stores.... Speaking at the meeting of the North Untarbury Centre of the League of Wheelmen Mr I. Montague stated that a rider who had been informed that he had been hned half a crown for looking round whilst riding in a race had remarked quite cheerfully: I don't mind paying half-a-erown for a look round or two, especially when it enables ine to win a 50s prize'." The cyclist was then informed that if he was found repeating the offence he would be fined a sovereign on every occasion—the maximum fine allowed by the rules. One of the most sovere droughts in -the history of Hawko's Bay is at present being experienced. For the last four months tlyjro has practically been no rain in the country between Mokotukn and Mohaka a circuit of about 40 miles around Napier. Grass has been thoroughly dried up and stock is practicably unsaleable. Strangely enough from Mokotuku to Maslerton the fall of rain has been fairly satisfactory, but lower down tho Wairarana dry weather has been experienced. Headaches are never too largo to be driven away by Stearns' Headache Cure. It's a small dose, and it> safe and it is easy to take, but it docs tho work every time.... Crops, grass, and all roots arc growing well in the Geraldine district, but fine weather is wanted. The birds (says the Timaru Post) are doing a great amount of damago among the early crops, and farmers are talking of cutting certain paddocks of oats and wheat into chaff, the birds having taken so much of tho grain. The season so far has proved disastrous to the hay crop. Several paddocks of what would have been splendid hay now, contain that which is of no more value than manure, In somo cases fanners have put their teams to work to eart tho mouldy stuff into the stock yards to make room for the young grass to grow, In connection with the reading boota now in use in tho State schools of Australia as authorised by the Education Department— viz., Nelson Royal series, Brookes's Australian, and Maemillan's Australasian, it has been felt by Tasmanian teachers for some time past that more uniformity was desirable, and that some agreement in respect to the use of ono series only should be adopted, and with such purpose in view the head teachers of tho Launceston and suburban State schools held two meetings recently, when, after very fully discussing the position, the following resolution 'was unanimously agreed to:—"That, so far as our own schools are concerned, we consider that, as opportunity offers, it will he advantageous to introduce and adopt as the standard reading books Maemillan's Australasian Readers." A nice basket of trout will be on view this morning in the window of Messrs A. and Vi. M'Carthy, Princes street. They were taken in tho Tomuka River, in some parts of which tho trout are simply swarming. The southern anglers who secured the basket that will be on view were shown the best places by Mr J, Elder, of Edinburgh House, Temuka.