OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12603, 5 March 1903, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

The firebell at Masterton 13 to be run bj iwier power. The Woodside correspondent of tho Taieri ■Advocate reports a case of scarlet fever in that dl^ri'vt A libel action by a Presbyterian clergyman, involving a claim for £3000 damages, is coming on this week in New Plymouth. Included in a large stock of cycle accessories at the Speedwell Cyclo Works 19 a large variety of saddles at very reasonable prices, together with a large stock of duplicate springs. ... Tho orops, are so backward in tho Ashburton County that most of them cannot bo harvested before the middle of this month. Tho appointment of Mr John Bushcll as deputy-registrar of births, deaths, a.nd marriages in tho Mount Benger district is gazetted. It's no joko to buy boots that look well and find they don't wear. The City Boot Palace offers you tho best value money can buy. 1 Good wear, with neat appcarance, at a moderate prico is the story in a nutshell. Think it over.... The Tapanui Courier says that the season for garden robberies has opened firm in the district, and recommends residents to charge their guns and hold their bulldogs in readiness. Try Cafe Cecil. Five-course luncheon, Is. P. Crawford, of Wellington, chef.... The Maoris at Waitaki are much afllictcd with the scourgo of typhoid—no doubt largely 111 coiwcqucnce of thoir insanitary mode of life. Mr Tom Wesley, of the Coronation Contingent, and a splendid specimen of tho Maori race, lies ill in Oamaru Hospital with an affection of the throat. The grass harvest will soon be. read ■, and farmers should see to i* that they havo their machines ready also. The M'Cormiok' is always ready.... On Tuesday morning early risers in Christclrarch witnessed a white hoarfrost. It soon dissipated under the rays of tho sun, but both fruit and flowers showed signs of a severe nip. The Timaru Garrison Band has resolved to offer a. salary of £52 to Mr T. Millar, of Waihi, Auckland, to act as its conductor. Yes! Men make money; but women take care of it—especially those who buy their corsets, gloves, umbrellas, and stockings at J. M. Auld's, 39 George street, Dunedin. ... After some months' boring for water to supply' the projected Kaiapoi Coronation bath, near Christchurch, a flow of 25 gallons per minute was tapped on Tuesday, at a depth of 451 ft. ' The Deep Stream correspondent of the Taieri Advocate m.v« tlinK if Mm *]uv<k

iuif season opens on April 1 splendid sport will be obtainable in that locality. Broods of young ducks are to be seen in all directions. The Al'Cormick i Binder is easily bandied by tho operator. 'It,, is easily drawn by tho uoricr. Ifc is the binder yon want.... In tho Oamaru district thcro have been sharp frosts the last few mornings, and although the wheat is not affected some of tho more backward crops of oats are bj no means improved. It is expected that crops generally in the locality, although good, will fall short of anticipations. The M'Cormiek Harvester is the only machine that is good enough for everybody.... Soma heavy crons have been obtained in the Marlborough district this season, Time 0110 paddock of barley yielded 9V bushels per acre, am! another of wheat 84 bushels. 3Tr John Davics, formerly general manager of Hie Government railway? of Western Australia, has been appointed general manager of Midland and South-Western Junction railway. The M'Cormiek is bui/t for clean work, quick work, perfect work. Its gear.-, are thf strongest known.... The usual complaints as to shortage of

truck accommodation on the railways are coming from all parts of the colony, and the usual explanations are forthcoming from the department, to the effect that even if there wore three times as many trucks available there would still be difficulties in the way of using them. Madame Melba, in* the course of a conversation with an Auckland Herald reprc- ■ scntative, said the income tax gatherer had been dogging her • footsteps since she had been in tho colony. The fair diva does not, however, intend to defraud Mr Seddon's depleted coffers, and thinks he has a perfect right to tax an artist who takes money out of tho colony. Another shipment of novelties for ladies' wear just opened, comprising gold and silver tinsel belts, Is 6d, Is lid, and 2s 6d; pretty pearl necklaces, lid. Is 3d.- Is 9d, Is lid, and 2s lid j new guipure and Roman lace collars, sailor or fichus shape, .it Is Ud, 2s 6d, and 2s Ud: rich real lace collars, from 3s l]d upwards; also a choice range of beautiful silk blouses with pretty lace insertion fronts, from 8s lid, at T. Ross's, direct importer, 130 Princes street.... ' The record of 700 lambs of the English lieiccster breed, drafted for freezing out of a lot of 1000 taken straight, off the owe?, which was' reported in this column yesterday from a southern paper, is, it appears, beaten by the good old "Borders." A Southland farmer has just sent away 2030 out of 2800 • lambs from their mothers, and they averaged over 401b. Tho l'aieri Advocate, dealing with the price of butter, says the depression on the Home market is due to the competition of Siberian butter. The secretary of the Peninsula Milk Company tells a representative I of tho paper that what is required in New Zealand is not so much increase of output as a raising of the standard of quality, in order to successfully compete with Russia. Tho North Otago Times, referring to Sir Joseph Ward's speech inveighing against the British capitalist, says that though Sir ■Toseph did not siim the song of his more frolicsome days, "There's bound to be a row," thai, nevertheless, in the face of our necessity'for money and the "non possurims" , of London, will be the popular air. "Poor old droughty Falstafr" (says the paper) " was ' never in worso predicament when he* contemplated the suspension of his everlasting ' flow of sack." To-day one million five hundred thousand M'Cormick reaping and harvesting machine: are in use in all parts of the world. They harvest grain on tho steppes of Asia, on the pampas of South America, the tablelands of South Africa, the plains of Europe, and the prairies of North America. From Jlanitobo to Argentina; in New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa one man seated at ease docs the work of 20 toilers. Tho M'Cormick harvests over one-third the grain and grass of the world. .You can buy a M'Cormick Harvester for £35. Morrow, Bassett, and Co., sole agents.... A farmer in the Pahiatua district, in consequence of a wager, undertook to milk one evening while his family were out (he . whole of his herd of 41 cows. When he had milked 31. however, he felt tired, and turned the other 10 out with the others. To convince his family ho had milked the lot, he made up the milk deficiency with water. Next day ho was agreeably surprised ; to find that at the. factory where his milk was sent his test had risen from 3.5 to 3.7. The scientific accuracy of milk-testing is now proverbial. Tho Christchurch Press says that during the financial year 1302-03 there have been manufactured at the Aldington Railway Workshops six engines—two tender goods engines and four tank engines. Previously tho output of engines from the workshops lias averaged about one per annum. It is understood that the work of constructing 10 enpipes of a similar character io those for which tenders are at present being called will shortly be put in hand. At present there are under construction a 'number of passenger carriages of a new type. In the first-class compartments tho backs and sides of the seats arc much higher than those in the present first class carriages, and tho single seats arc wider, as are also the double seats, which have a division in the centre.